Thank you to all who joined us in Elmwood Park for our TAG Tailgate! After over a year of virtual meetings, it was the first time our board had gathered in person since the beginning of the pandemic, and we were thrilled that so many of you came out to join us. Although we know we’re not out of the … Read More
Dear Omaha Arts Community . . .
Dear Omaha Arts Community: Theatre Arts Guild is terminating its relationship with local arts organization Nebraska Shakespeare. For the past year, we have watched this organization actively harm members of our arts community who identify as Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC), while making and breaking promises and commitments to change, and failing to hold themselves accountable to an … Read More
Special TAG Discount Now Through 31 January 2021!
Attention all Omaha Theatre Artists! If you’re in need of a getaway, the Residence Inn – Downtown Omaha is the place to be! Come join us in our beautiful historic building…your home away from home. Now through January 31, 2021, we would love to offer you a special rate of $69 – any day of the week! Our spacious studio … Read More
TAG Awards Scholarships to High School Seniors in Theatre
TAG Awards Scholarships to High School Seniors in Theatre by Stephanie Kidd This Spring TAG will award $3500 in scholarship funds to Omaha-area high school students with plans to study theatre in college next year. We are very grateful to our seniors, who adapted to new processes based on safety needs due to COVID-19. Our audition process was new this … Read More
Pride Players
Pride Players by Joe Basque It has been a difficult spring for theater in the area, as school, community theater and touring Broadway productions all fell victim to safety precautions in the face of the escalating Coronavirus epidemic. The most recent victim is the Rose Theater’s Pride Players, who were slated to perform at the Kennedy Center’s New Visions/New Voices … Read More
Blood at the Root
Blood at the Root By Joe Basque, Contributor Cedar High is your typical high school; a reasonably harmonious place where students interact in class and extracurricular activities, but tend to socialize within their own racial groups. Until Raylynn decides to shake things up. She becomes the first person of color to run for student council president and she spends a … Read More
“Tell Martha Not to Moan”
“Tell Martha Not to Moan” By: Joe Basque, Contributor In July 1967, a late night police raid on an unlicensed bar lit the fuse on a five day explosion of rioting and violence in Detroit. By the time it was over, forty-three were dead, over a thousand injured, two thousand buildings were destroyed, and the United States Army’s 82nd and … Read More
Company
Company By Joe Basque, Contributor Bobby is an amiable, attractive, single New Yorker. He is best friends with five couples, he has three girlfriends, and he is about to celebrate his thirty-fifth birthday. He seems to live a charmed life. So why is he so ambivalent? Audiences of the Stephen Sondheim musical “Company” have puzzled over just what makes … Read More
Sweat
Sweat By Joe Basque, Contributor Sweat by Lynn Nottage is set in a Reading Pennsylvania bar populated by steel workers, male and female, black and white, who watch helplessly as their lives are turned upside down by de-industrialization. The play opened off Broadway shortly before the 2016 presidential election. When the dust cleared, the New York Times wrote that … Read More
The Rose Theatre and Creighton University explore history, anti-Semitism, and the refugee experience.
The Rose Theatre and Creighton University explore history, anti-Semitism, and the refugee experience. By Fran Sillau and Lora Kaup, TAG Board Members The Theatre Arts Guild’s Access and Inclusion Committee would like to highlight the work of two upcoming productions in our community. Both explore how the lives of children were shaped by hatred, bigotry, and violence as they sought … Read More