Great Plains Theatre Commons

Join us for GPTC’s 21st Season!

We can’t wait to make new stories with you.

Stay tuned for news about upcoming performances!

The window for sending in your play to be considered for the 2026 national New Play Festival opens on September 1st! Click here for more information!

Today more than ever, we need your support.

Join us as we support the creation and sharing of diverse new stories that make our community stronger.

We are full steam ahead with our work and mission, but we need your help!

See below for a statement on the recent NEA cuts from our Artistic Director, Kevin Lawler,

and please use the QR code to donate and help us continue our work!

To our local and national communities:

The Great Plains Theatre Commons was among multiple Omaha-area nonprofits who received an email last May announcing the withdrawal of previously approved funding from the National Arts Endowment. The withdrawal of federal funding to arts organizations across the country is devastating on many levels for the organizations affected and the communities they serve, but it’s also another step in our deepening national crisis.

Over two decades of sharing new stories with the world, the GPTC has learned, over and over again, that the health of a community is determined, in large part, by the depth and honesty of the stories that we are able to share with each other.

Because we are all inexorably connected, the actions against refugees, immigrants, the poor, students, journalists, artists, scientists, federal workers, non-profits, libraries, universities, the LGBTQIA community, the press, museums, and the arts, among others, are attacks against everyone in our country.

No matter what the current administration does to us, we will continue to support storytellers and share stories because that is the work that we love and it’s our way to be of service.

We need your help! Please donate to the GPTC and support the arts today!

With gratitude,

Kevin Lawler, GPTC Artistic Director