SoonerConFriday-SundayBiltmore Hotel401 S. Meridianwww.soonercon.com310-9255$15 day, $35 weekend SoonerCon, Oklahoma City’s convention devoted to a wide variety of fans of sci-fi, fantasy, comics, gaming, anime and pop culture, returns to the Biltmore Hotel for its fourth year of festivities. While the current iteration has only been around since 2006, it has a lineage that goes back […]
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Actress, singer and vocal teacher Renee Anderson returns to Lyric Plaza for cabaret charity concert
Renee Anderson8 p.m. Friday-SaturdayLyric Plaza Theatre1727 N.W. 16thwww.lyrictheatreokc.com524-9312$25 After a successful sold-out debut last year, Oklahoma City-based actress and singer Renee Anderson will premiere her second one-woman show, “Alive,” this weekend at the Lyric Plaza Theatre. An Oklahoma City University graduate with a master’s in musical theater, she grew up in Edmond and has been […]
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Local comic book stores encourage readers young and old during Free Comic Book Day
Free Comic Book DaySaturdaywww.freecomicbookday.com Eight years after Free Comic Book Day was first held, thousands of comic book stores around the world participate in the annual event, held the first Saturday in May, when anyone can walk in and get a free comic from among dozens of specially produced titles. “The main goal is to […]
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Jewel Box Theatre closes season with ‘Coming Back to Jersey,’ winner of its 2010 playwriting contest
“Coming Back to Jersey”8 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Sunday, through May 9Jewel Box TheatreFirst Christian Church3700 N. Walkerwww.jewelboxtheatre.org521-1786$15 adults, $10 students Written by Oklahoman Carl L. Williams, “Coming Back to Jersey” tells the story of middle-aged married couple Howard and Norma Karchmer. Howard has a rich fantasy life, imagining himself to be James Bond, while […]
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The OKC Jazz Orchestra finishes up its inaugural season with jazz high above the city’s skyline
OKC Jazz Orchestra7 p.m. TuesdayThe Petroleum ClubChase Building, 100 N. Broadwaywww.OKCjazzorchestra.com232-1184 $15 adults, $5 students Oklahoma City had been without a big band jazz orchestra since the 1980s, when local musicians Kirk Palmer, Eric Leonard, Chris Hicks and Michael Anderson started dreaming of founding such a performance group. “We all love playing concert big band […]
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Great acting finds traction, despite a few small bumps, in the crowd-pleasing ‘Driving Miss Daisy’
Driving Miss Daisy7:30 P.M. Today-Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Saturday, 3 p.m. SundayLyric Theatre1725 N.W. 16thwww.lyrictheatreokc.com 524-9312$15-$40 Probably best known for the 1989 film adaptation starring Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman, Alfred Uhry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “Driving Miss Daisy” follows the development of an unlikely friendship between Daisy Werthan, an obstinate Jewish widow, and Hoke […]
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Nerdcore’s ‘Rising’ brings a rabid fan base to the genre’s geeky, uneasy godfather, MC Frontalot
MC Frontalot with the Doppelgangstas and Brandon Patton9 p.m. MondayThe Conservatory8911 N. Westernwww.conservatoryOKC.com879-9778$8 Nerdcore might sound pretty niche, but on his new album, “Zero Day,” MC Frontalot once again tackles a wide range of subjects, including the screwed-up priorities of the first world, software vulnerability, self-scrutiny, gaming, disaster movies and the perverse use of calculators […]
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Classical Mystery Tour joins Oklahoma City Philharmonic to bring Beatlemania to OKC
With the recent release of the re-mastered Beatles catalog and the iconic band’s hit version of the “Rock Band” video game, enthusiasm for the Fab Four is the highest it’s been in years. A number of tribute bands have cropped up in the decades since The Beatles dissolved in 1970, but Classical Mystery Tour stands […]
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Classical Mystery Tour joins Oklahoma City Philharmonic to bring Beatlemania to OKC
With the recent release of the re-mastered Beatles catalog and the iconic band’s hit version of the “Rock Band” video game, enthusiasm for the Fab Four is the highest it’s been in years. A number of tribute bands have cropped up in the decades since The Beatles dissolved in 1970, but Classical Mystery Tour stands […]
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Stillwater singer/songwriter uses athletic work ethic to steal center stage
Growing up in Stillwater, sports always dominated the life of singer/songwriter John Martin. Encouraged by his father, a national champion wrestler at Iowa State, Martin and his siblings were active in a variety of sports. From age 4 on, he was always on the field or court, suiting and lacing up for football, baseball and […]