Great Plains Theatre Commons
It’s our 20th Year!
There are few guarantees in life, but one of them is that time keeps moving.
It’s with a mix of shock, gratitude, love, pride, and excitement that we prepare to close out our 20th anniversary year. So many stories have been shared. So many friends made, and so much community has been built together.
This year, we celebrated 20 years of creating and sharing stories with you.
Now we are looking forward to making new stories – stay tuned for news about our 21st Season as we journey onward!
Today more than ever, we need your support.
The National Endowment for the Arts has withdrawn arts funding to nonprofits across the country
This not only resulted in the unexpected loss of a major grant for GPTC but has also led to reductions in state and regional funding. The ripple effects of these cuts are ongoing and potentially devastating for our entire sector.
We are full steam ahead with our work and mission, but we need your help!
See below for a statement on the 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 on Friday, May 2nd, 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
