Omaha Community Playhouse

Omaha Community Playhouse

Coordinates: 41°15′50″N 96°01′13″W / 41.263937°N 96.020336°W / 41.263937; -96.020336

Omaha Community Playhouse
Address 6915 Cass Street
City Omaha, Nebraska
Country United States
www.omahaplayhouse.com

The Omaha Community Playhouse, located at 6915 Cass Street in Omaha, Nebraska, United States, is a nationally recognized community theater.

Founded in 1924, the Playhouse's first president was Alan McDonald, architect of the Joslyn Art Museum, and its first play, directed by Greg Foley in April 1925, was The Enchanted Cottage, which starred Dodie Brando, mother of Marlon Brando. When, later in the Playhouse's first season, the need arose for a young man to play the lead for You and I, Brando suggested that twenty-year-old Henry Fonda, son of her friend Herberta Fonda, contact the director.[1] The Playhouse would later see the acting debut of Marlon Brando, Dorothy McGuire, and Julie Wilson, and appearances by Letitia Baldrige, Glenn Cunningham, and Lenka Peterson.

The Playhouse experienced tremendous growth throughout the 1980s and 1990s under the direction of Charles Jones.

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  1. ^ Bain, David Haward (2004). The Old Iron Road: An Epic of Rails, Roads, and the Urge to Go West. New York City, New York: Penguin Books. pp. 60–1. ISBN 0143035266. 

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