Just a few months after hiring a brand new affiliate creative director, the Omaha Community Playhouse is trying to fill the job once more.

Brady Patsy resigned this week. He made an influence in his brief time on the theater because the director of “The Legend of Georgia McBride” and by performing a booming voice-only function in “The Cake.”

He was set to direct August Wilson’s “Fences” early subsequent yr. Playhouse Executive Director Katie Broman mentioned on Facebook {that a} new director for that present can be introduced at a future date.

Brady and his rising household will return to Pittsburgh, the place they’ve the help of family members, in response to the Facebook submit.

“While we are saddened to see Brady leave, we’re thankful for his brief insight and impact on Omaha and OCP,” the submit mentioned.

Gerald Dickens, the great-great-grandson of creator Charles Dickens, is returning to Omaha with a brand new one-man present.

The Douglas County Historical Society, sponsor of his earlier Omaha performances, is internet hosting his interpretation of his ancestor’s beloved novel “A Christmas Carol” at 2 p.m. Sunday. The occasion — on the Field Club of Omaha, 3615 Woolworth Ave. — begins with tea at 2 p.m.

At 6 p.m. the identical day, Dickens will current the debut of his new program on the General Crook House Museum, 5720 N. thirtieth St. The studying, “The Queen and the Commoner,” is predicated on the connection between Charles Dickens and Queen Victoria. The efficiency is unique to Omaha.

Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres can be served on the night presentation, and books and merchandise can be out there at each reveals.

Gerald Dickens has labored world wide as an actor, director and producer. He first carried out “A Christmas Carol” in 1993.

To reserve tickets, name 402-455-9990 or cease by the museum. The historic society’s web site is douglascohistory.org.

A captivating story a few household’s pleasure over the 1904 World’s Fair is the subsequent play onstage on the Bellevue Little Theatre.

“Meet Me in St. Louis,” primarily based on the 1944 Christmas film musical starring Judy Garland, opens Friday night time and runs by Nov. 20. Suitable for all ages, it focuses on a often secure clan that erupts in chaos in anticipation of the massive occasion.

Jackson Newman directs a 16-member solid within the present. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and a couple of p.m. Sundays.

The theater now has on-line reservations and fee for all viewers members. Tickets are $25 for adults, $20 for seniors and $15 for college kids with correct IDs. One-time consumers should purchase tickets at blt.simpletix.com. Season ticket holders ought to name 402-413-8945 or e mail info@theblt.org.

The theater is at 203 W. Mission Ave. in Bellevue. It has a brand new web site: theblt.org.

A pianist who carried out for first woman Barbara Bush in Washington, D.C., will current a free live performance at Creighton University on Friday night time.

Mark Valenti, who has a grasp of music diploma from Northwestern University, will play at 7 p.m. on the Lied Education Center for the Arts, 2500 California Plaza on the CU campus.

Valenti has a bachelor of music diploma from the Philadelphia Musical Academy and has studied with famous lecturers Benjamin Whitten and Zoltan Kocsis. He has carried out all through the United States and in France, Hungary, Belgium and Luxembourg. He additionally has labored with jazz artists akin to Gregory Hines and Frank Foster.

His program at Creighton will embrace works by Joseph Haydn, Claude Debussy, Frédéric Chopin and Béla Bartók.

The Weisenheimers improv comedy group will make a one-night solely look on the Omaha Community Playhouse on Nov. 11.

The trio — Monty Eich, Theresa Sindelar and Cullen Chollett — is understood for its good, quick routines with insane characters.

The group has been performing for firm events, company occasions, college and church teams and at different venues all through the Midwest since 1997.

It will carry out within the small Howard Drew Theatre on the Playhouse. Tickets are $20 common admission and can be found on the theater field workplace, 6915 Cass St., by telephone at 402-553-0800 or on-line at omahaplayhouse.com.