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UNOTheatre Season

Where Omaha Theatre Begins

Here in UNOTheatre, all productions involve both UNO students and others from the greater metropolitan Omaha area.

We deliver performances live on stage, as well as on different virtual platforms including video and streaming video on demand.

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Current Production:

Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland Poster

By Alice Gerstenberg
Adapted from Lewis Carroll

Director: Kyle Thomas

Adapted from both Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, follow Alice as she crosses into a fantastical world and meets the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, and the Queen of Hearts along a journey that grows “curiouser and curiouser.”

  • April 17–19, 2025 | 7:30 P.M.
  • April 24–26, 2025 | 7:30 P.M.
  • April 26 & 27, 2025 | 2 P.M. matinee


Our 2024-2025 Season

Dracula

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By Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston
Adapted by Kevin Barratt

Director: Kevin Barratt

The first stage version of Bram Stoker’s novel, this play was the basis for the classic Bela Lugosi film. 100 years later, it still sparks passion, scares, and laughter. It’s bloody exciting!

  • October 3–5, 2024 | 7:30 P.M.
  • October 6, 2024 | 2 P.M. matinee
  • October 10–12, 2024 | 7:30 P.M.
  • October 13, 2024 | 2 P.M. matinee

Anything Goes

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Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
Original Book by P.G. Wodehouse & Guy Bolton and Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse

New Book by Timothy Crouse & John Weidman

Director: Dr. Ron Zank
Music Director: Curtis Reynolds
Choreographer: Julian Adair

90 years after it premiered on Broadway, Cole Porter’s classic shipboard musical comedy has entertained audiences ever since. Crazy disguises, nightclub singers, romantic entanglements, and would-be gangsters are featured in this song-and-dance extravaganza.

  • November 21–23, 2024 | 7:30 P.M.
  • November 24, 2024 | 2 P.M. matinee
  • December 5–7, 2024 | 7:30 P.M.
  • December 8, 2024 | 2 P.M. matinee


New Ways New Works: A Celebration of Arts and Performance

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This festival embraces the work of UNO students and faculty from across the School of the Arts and the college. Consider joining us. Featuring the following:

  • a workshopped production of Charlene Donaghy's 4AM Friends,
  • reading of student screen and theatre plays in development,
  • poetry readings
  • public speaking with Mav Forensics
  • song & dance
  • improv
  • UNOTheatre's first ever Play-in-A-Day!

See the schedule below, but as a Pay-what-you-can event, we hope that you can join us every night.

A collaborative festival to build community, New Ways, New Works is also a goods drive for Mav Pantry. Bring a donation to the box office and get admission that way! Visit their website for a list of current needs:

https://www.unomaha.edu/maverick-food-pantry/donate/our-needs-right-now.php

New Ways, New Works schedule of events:

  • Thursday, February 20, 2025 | 7:30 P.M. 4AM Friends & Opening Night Reception
  • Friday, February 21, 2025 | 7:30 P.M. Act I - Mav Forensics, Act II - Cabaret Night
  • Saturday, February 22, 2025 | 7:30 P.M. 4AM Friends & Public Talkback
  • Sunday, February 23, 2025 | 2 P.M. matinee Act I - New Screen & Play Readings, Act II - Cabaret Night
  • Thursday, February 27, 2025 | 7:30 P.M. Act I - Poetry, Act II - Improv
  • Friday, February 28, 2025 | 7:30 P.M. Cabaret Night
  • Saturday, March 1, 2025 | 7:30 P.M. Play-in-a-Day Performance
  • Sunday, March 2, 2025 | 2 P.M. matinee 4AM Friends


Tickets

General Admission Musicals - General Admission Preview Performance Admission
$16 $20 $10 (First Thursday Performance Only)

UNO students get in free with your MavCARD.

Go to the box office before the performance to get your free ticket.

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Previous Seasons

2023-2024

  • Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
  • Urinetown
  • The Diary of Anne Frank
  • Peter and the Starcatcher

2022-2023

  • The Thanksgiving Play
  • Into the Woods
  • Men on Boats
  • Macbeth

2021-2022

  • She Kills Monsters
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
  • Crossing the Street
  • Ernest in Love

2020-2021

  • The QWIT Festival (Queer and Women's Inclusive Theatre)
  • Songs for a New World
  • Unsex Me Here, Shakespeare
  • The Wind in the Willows

2019-2020

  • Dogfight
  • Orlando
  • Blood at the Root

2018-2019

  • The Clearing
  • The Secret Garden
  • Colonel's Chicken: A Fairy Tale
  • The Wolves

2017-2018

  • Our Town
  • Spring Awakening
  • The Revolutionists
  • Marat/Sade

2016-2017

  • Shakespeare's Dog
  • A War of Roses
  • The Guard
  • Tales of the Lost Formicans

2015-2016

  • Dracula
  • The Threepenny Opera
  • Cloud 9
  • Kwaidan: Japanese Ghosts and Demons

2014-2015

  • Hedda Gabler
  • UNO Theatre Festival
  • Freakshow
  • As You Like It

2013-2014

  • The Cripple of Innishmaan
  • Elektra
  • Death by Design: A Comedy with Songs and Murder
  • The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

2012-2013

  • Titus Andronicus
  • Mirror of the Invisible World
  • The Archaeology of Dreams
  • Or,
  • Female Transport

Parking

FREE Parking Fridays. Always find a spot in the West Garage (a 2-minute stroll to Weber Fine Arts entrance.)

Saturday is open parking on all lots on campus.

Wednesday and Thursday rates (in West Parking Garage) are $1 per hour or $4 per day.

Tickets

General Admission - $16

Preview Performances - $10

Musicals General Admission - $20

Musical Preview Performances - $10

UNO students FREE with MavCARD


Walk up to the Box Office

Visit the Theatre Box Office, located on the first floor at the south lobby of the Weber Fine Arts Building.

The box office opens at 6:30 P.M. on performance nights.

All major credit cards are accepted.


Questions?

For questions concerning our ticket purchasing process, please call 402.554.PLAY (7529).

If you call after business hours, please leave a message and we will return your call as soon as the box office reopens.

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