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Harbor Stage Company presents The Bohemian

… by Brenda Withers from Cather's short story “The Bohemian Girl,” this unique and special production features actors … writers that the Boston Globe describes as “Impressive… The Bohemian finds something new to say.”  The Harbor Stage …
Posted: 04/27/2026
Last Updated: 04/28/2026

Finding Aids

… Finding Aids The National Willa Cather Center houses one of the nation’s largest collections … address books, journals, and sales ledgers for her novels, as well as hundreds of objects that belonged to the … Cather Center in Red Cloud, Nebraska.  Subjects: short stories Cather genealogy Willa Cather personal effects …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

Visit

… in the heart of Cather's hometown. Explore exhibits and collections, or visit historic sites like the Willa Cather … intimate look at the lived world of Cather and her family. Learn More American Bittersweet Exhibit The Willa Cather … and delivered her high school graduation oration in 1890. Learn More About the Opera House …
Posted: 12/13/2022
Last Updated: 10/23/2025

A Lifetime of Giving: Yost and Leak Join Cather Legacy Society

… to mind for them is a performance of the opera,  The Bohemian Girl , that was staged to help celebrate the re-opening of …
Posted: 07/13/2016
Last Updated: 09/29/2025

Red Cloud Opera House

… the arrival of traveling productions such as  The Bohemian Girl  and  The Mikado . As Cather herself put it, "Only real …
Posted: 07/10/2014
Last Updated: 01/28/2025

Virtual Author Series: Terese Svoboda

… Kent as "astounding;" The Washington Post regarded her biography Anything That Burns You as "magisterial." …
Posted: 08/14/2024
Last Updated: 09/23/2024

Historic Sites

… to Willa Cather's life and writing. “Every time I talked about Cather in Webster County,” Mildred Bennett said in an … author. Willa Cather Childhood Home Built in 1879, this house was five years old when the Cather family moved in. … Song of the Lark. The home was acquired by the Willa Cather Foundation in 1960 and opened to visitors in 1967. Many of …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/17/2024

Red Cloud Opera House

… Image Red Cloud Opera House "When I go about among little Nebraska towns, the thing … full  performance schedule  and is home to the Willa Cather Foundation offices, art gallery and bookstore.  Willa Cather …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 04/07/2024

From the Permanent Collection: John Blake Bergers

… 22, 2022 | 12am - Saturday, Feb 12, 2022 | 12am Red Cloud Opera House Gallery 413 N Webster Street Red Cloud , NE … in our permanent collection were donated to the Willa Cather Foundation by the artist himself and his family, this … us from the estate of acclaimed actress and life-long Willa Cather fan Julie Harris. To learn more about this recent …
Posted: 01/14/2022
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

My Ántonia by Illusion Theater

… upon his return to Nebraska to see Ántonia Shimerda, a Bohemian immigrant girl who shaped his understanding of people and life. …
Posted: 12/12/2018
Last Updated: 05/24/2023

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