The Nebraska Repertory Theatre, UNL’s professional theater, presents Paul Steger, director of the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film, in David Sedaris’s biting comedy “The Santaland Diaries.” The production, directed by artistic director Virginia Smith, includes performances at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 9-10; 7:30 and 10 p.m. Dec. 11-12; and 2 p.m. Dec. 13. All [...]

UNL’s first Johnny Carson Lectureship was held Oct. 16 in the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center. Individuals participating in the discussion were (from left) Jeff Sotzing, president of Carson Entertainment Group; former Tonight Show writers Anthony DeSena, Darrell Vickers and Andrew Nicholls; and moderator Paul Steger, director of the Johnny Carson School of Theatre [...]

Paul Steger, director of the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film, has been invited to join the National Theatre Conference. Founded in 1925, the NTC is a cooperative association of distinguished leaders of the American theatre – university, community and professional. Membership to the conference is by invitation only and is limited to 120 [...]

For three hours on a morning in May, an urgent scene played out over and over in downtown Ashland: A crowd of locals gathered around a TV news reporter, who grimly spelled out how a young girl from town had gone missing. Twenty feet away, the local sheriff, leaning against a squad car, waited for [...]

Paul Steger is stepping onto a UNL stage. The director of UNL’s Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film will play the lead in the Nebraska Repertory Theatre’s production of “The Santaland Diaries.” The biting comedy by David Sedaris opens at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 11 in the Studio Theatre of the Temple Building. Other curtains [...]