All Stories About Great Plains Theatre Conference

O Pioneers! Paving the Way for New Plays in Nebraska

In its 11th iteration, the Great Plains Theater Conference has both grown and grown more tightly knit.

For her bleak and biting new play about sexual assault in the military, Erin Lane sets the action at a bar and lets the sparks fly.

One week each year, a Nebraska campus becomes a hub for playwrights to rekindle camaraderie and dreams—oh, and present some fierce new work.

Program includes a retreat in upstate New York and an award to a female playwright from the Great Plains Theatre Conference.

New works, vintage posters, a Chicago theatre buffet.