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TICKETS:
General admission: $15 Adults, $10 Students, Seniors, TAG and OPG members
PlayFest Pass - Admission to all five evening performances: $50 Adults, $35 Students, Seniors, TAG and OPG members
Both individual tickets and PlayFest Passes will go on sale in late April.
Sunday, May 29
| 7:30 P.M. The Weber Fine Arts Building University of Nebraska at Omaha 6001 Dodge Street |
Alchemy of Desire/Dead Man’s Blues
Enter into a world of ghosts, love, and war where women smoke cigars and sing to help the dead. A place where lovers search for each other across a landscape of sweat, sex, fried chicken, and whiskey. A sensuous exploration of an America caught in two wars and struggling to reconcile the visible and invisible consequences to ourselves and our country. This production is presented in partnership |
Tuesday, May 31
| 7:30 P.M. Scott Recital Hall Holland Performing Arts Center 1200 Douglas Street |
Le Chat Noir A Raucous Evening of Short Monologues and Plays Le Chat Noir (French for "The Black Cat") was a 19th-century cabaret in the bohemian Montmartre district of Paris. In its heyday it was a bustling nightclub — part artist salon, part rowdy music hall, and was famous for its Salon of Incoherent Arts and edgy comic monologues. |
Wednesday, June 1st
| 7:30 P.M. The Bow Truss Building at KANEKO 1111 Jones Street |
The Writer’s Voice What are the stories behind the plays that are penned by our great contemporary playwrights? Where do their ideas come from? How do they come to fruition? What are these writers struggling with now? On this evening, major American playwrights Lee Blessing, Constance Congdon and Caridad Svich will read and discuss selections from their own award winning work.
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Thursday, June 2nd
| 7:30 P.M. The Lied Education Center for the Arts Creighton University 2500 California Plaza |
Fortinbras What happens after Hamlet dies in the world’s most famous play? Randy ghosts hit on the living, the Norwegian army randomly invades Europe, and the nature of what is true becomes as malleable as a senate ethics committee in this hilarious satire of power and spin that seems to be ripped straight from today’s headlines. This performance is presented in partnership with Creighton University |
Friday, June 3rd
| 7:30 P.M. The Lied Education Center for the Arts Creighton University 2500 California Plaza |
A Walk In The Woods
Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award, this brilliant, wonderfully funny study of human nature follows a Russian and American nuclear arms negotiator as they meet in the woods outside of Geneva, Switzerland and struggle to find common ground while the fate of the world rests in their hands. This performance is presented in partnership with Creighton University
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