Full of Hell 6 p.m. June 5 89th Street — OKC 8911 N. Western Ave. 89thstreetokc.com 405-463-9203 $12-$14 Despite their titles, Full of Hell’s most recent albums, Trumpeting Ecstasy and Weeping Choir, mostly consist of guitars, drums and screams. Recorded and produced by Converge guitarist Kurt Ballou and combining elements familiar to fans of extreme […]
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Quality music
Formed in Santa Barbara, California, and named after a joke from Monty Python’s Contractual Obligation Album, Toad the Wet Sprocket originally came together in Oklahoma! — a high school production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, that is. “We were four people doing theater in high school, and we were all in a production of […]
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Mistaken identities
The Comedy of Errors June 6-29 Water Stage Myriad Botanical Gardens 301 W. Reno Ave. okshakes.org 405-235-3700 Free-$20 For Oklahoma Shakespeare founder and artistic director Kathryn McGill, some of the laughs in The Comedy of Errors come from attempting to describe the plot. “I’m going to try to explain it,” McGill said. “That’s going to […]
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SUMMER GUIDE Hello, Oklahoma!
Not long ago, a roundup of notable concerts hitting Oklahoma in a given summer would have been depressingly Tulsa-heavy. Our neighbor to the northeast is well-represented on the list below, but at the risk of jinxing an encouraging trend, fans of music in many genres can get their concert fix without ever leaving the OKC […]
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Musical threats
Disaster! June 7-29 Pollard Theatre 120 W. Harrison Ave., Guthrie thepollard.org 405-282-2800 $15-$30 Guthrie’s Pollard Theatre Company is following its production of Beehive: The ’60s Musical by leaping ahead a decade to ensure the 2018-2019 season ends in Disaster! While both productions are called “jukebox musicals” because their scores consist of popular songs, Disaster!, written […]
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Big picture
Visual artist Denise Duong compared painting a mural on the side of a parking garage to cliff diving. Before adorning two walls of the roughly 40-feet-tall West Village Parking Garage, 927 W. Sheridan Ave., with her vivid murals titled “Life in the Light,” Duong had never worked on a project of that scale, but she […]
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Fan service
Rocklahoma Friday-Sunday 1421 W. 450 Road, Pryor rocklahoma.com $99.50-$199 Contrary to what you might have seen online in recent months, Ace Frehley said he does not believe his former bandmates Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley have ever tried to kill him. In January, Simmons told an interviewer that Frehley and Peter Criss could never return […]
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Gerle talk
Gerle Haggard 10 p.m. Friday The Deli 309 White St., Norman thedeli.us 405-329-3534 $7 Billing itself as “all girl, all Merle,” Portland, Oregon-based Merle Haggard tribute band Gerle Haggard is literally a dream come true — just not the dream of anyone in the band. “Our drummer [Nikki Jardin], her friend had this dream, woke […]
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Color movement
Postwar Abstraction: Variations through Dec. 31 Oklahoma City Museum of Art 415 Couch Drive okcmoa.com 405-236-3100 Free–$12 If you have trouble understanding or enjoying abstract art, Oklahoma City Museum of Art curator Roja Najafi offers some reassuring advice that will be familiar to fans of Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. “Do not […]
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Angry blues
Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears 7 p.m. May 24 89th Street — OKC 8911 N. Western Ave. 89thstreetokc.com $17-$20 The difference between The Difference Between Me & You and the albums Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears released prior to it, in Lewis’ opinion, is clarity of purpose. “It actually has a more cohesive […]