Omaha Community Playhouse

The Omaha Community Playhouse presented its first production in 1924. During the past 80-plus years the Playhouse has become the nation's largest community theatre in terms of size of facility and subscription membership base. The Playhouse's Who's Who of performers includes Dorothy McGuire, Henry Fonda, Dodie Brando (Marlon Brando's mother), and Peter Fonda.

Throughout the years, the Playhouse has initiated numerous projects and programs to provide quality theatrical experiences, education, and professional advancement to a wide audience. The Playhouse continues to offer courses in acting, voice, dance, and yoga taught by professionally-trained instructors.

The Theatre Technology Apprenticeship Program takes students behind the stage and into the scene and costume shops and box office to explore technical theatre career opportunities. This "Education for Employment" program provides instruction related to scenery, costumes, sound, rigging, lighting, box office, house management, and marketing.

The Playhouse's annual production of "A Christmas Carol", first produced in 1976, tours nationally each holiday season as part a joint project with the Nebraska Theatre Caravan and has been performed in over 600 cities in 49 states and 3 Canadian provinces.

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