It takes a while for the audience and characters to reach a state of arousal in Reduxion Theatre Company’s Lysistrata.
Larry Laneer
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Local theater companies tell us what to look forward to this fall
Artistic directors guide us through what one hopes will be a challenging, thought-provoking, enlightening and entertaining season.
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Travel to ancient Egypt with Antony and Cleopatra
Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park’s production of Antony and Cleopatra is engaging and intriguing from start to finish.
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Reduxion Theatre’s Henry V is a well-acted, niftily presented affair
In the prologue to Shakespeare’s Henry V, Chorus asks, “Can this cockpit hold the vasty fields of France? Or may we cram within this wooden O the very casques that did affright the air at Agincourt?” The answer to Reduxion Theatre Company’s production, now at the Broadway, is a satisfying, “Yes.”
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Pollard Theatre Company raises the bar with In the Heights
Pollard Theatre Company has become adept at staging musicals set as far from Guthrie as you can get both culturally and geographically.
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Love Triangle?
From tragedy comes art, so Lyric Theatre presents the new musical Triangle at the Plaza Theatre, inspired by the disastrous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. The show’s creators — Curtis Moore (music), Thomas Mizer (lyrics) and Joshua Scher (book with Moore and Mizer) — also link the story tenuously to the World Trade Center attack of […]
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Helen, teller
Pollard Theatre Company has revived The Miracle Worker, William Gibson’s 1959 biographical drama about the meeting of young Helen Keller with her first teacher, Annie Sullivan, in a production that features a couple of affecting performances by actors in the principal roles. And what great leading roles they are. Set in the 1880s around the […]
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New Ado
Director René Moreno has set the play in Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory, at the turn of the last century. Thus, you have a Col. Don Pedro, a Lt. Claudio and a Capt. Benedick of Chickasha, all of the First Cavalry Regiment. Moreno makes numerous other dialog changes to fit the setting. Placing Shakespeare plays in the […]
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Like, not love
Reduxion Theatre Company has moved a few blocks south and opened its first show at the new Broadway Theater. The play is a tedious production of Shakespeare’s As You Like It, and the restrooms at the theater are luxurious compared to the one-holer at the old Broadway (or, at least, I can vouch for the […]
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Odd men out
An ancient theatrical relic is on display in the Plaza District under the auspices of Lyric Theatre. The historical artifact in question is a comedy from A.D. 1965 titled The Odd Couple (you may have heard of it) by a popular playwright of that era named Neil Simon (who, for the record, is still alive). […]