Arts

At first glance, the wide-lens photographs taken by Walter Nelson and the collage-like images by Phil Stein couldn’t differ more. However, it takes more than an initial glimpse to discover the parallels of these artists’ work. Both artists incorporate the uniqueness of landscape “? an aspect that prompted an upcoming art exhibit showcasing their works, […]

After a five-year absence from the University of Oklahoma, guest director Joel Ferrell has returned as a man on a mission: to make Shakespeare hip, relevant and more appealing to a college audience, without compromising the integrity of the play. While still telling the tale of lovers led astray by the mischievous intentions of magical […]

Ladies and gentlemen, step right up and feast your gaze on dancers, mermaids, stilt walkers and an “orange guy.” “Cirque Berserk,” the freak show-themed version of this year’s Carnality Ball, starts 7 p.m. Friday at the Farmers Public Market, and brings with it fire-eaters, a sword-swallower, visual artists of all ilk and a whole host […]

opens Thursday at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch. On display are 46 prints from renowned 19th-century French impressionists including Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edouard Manet and Charles M

A brilliant morning sun burns the fog off the African savanna, and thus begins “Circle of Life,” one of the great opening production numbers in musical theater. COMING-OF-AGE STORY CLOTHING AND CULTURE In this first scene from “The Lion King,” clawed, horned, winged and otherwise-endowed creatures of the jungle “? including a nearly life-sized elephant […]

For nearly 40 years, “Forbidden Broadway” has been satirizing popular musicals and the people who bring them to life. During that time, the show has been updated several times to include more timely spoofs, resulting in a productions spanning 60 years of Broadway history. While it’s comprehensive, it’s also burdened by its scope, with jokes […]

Admittedly, I approached the Pollard Theatre with trepidation to review “Beauty and the Beast,” a big, glitzy, costume- and prop-intensive stage adaptation of the Disney animated musical. Is “Beauty and the Beast” the right type of show for the cozy Pollard Theatre, with its sardine can of an orchestra pit? Can this musical be done […]

Nature is bizarre, so who’s to say that there isn’t a giraffe that evolved with zebra stripes, a crane with a serpentine neck or a stag with antlers sprouting 10 feet from its head? Timothy Chapman was en route to a biology degree in college, but instead veered toward the aesthetic absurdities of nature, specifically […]

Photographer and author Richard Steven Street presents his lecture, “Photographer’s Double: The Historian as Photographer, the Photographer as Historian,” at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, 555 Elm in Norman. The two-screen slide lecture describes the process Street used to sort through 10,000 images while selecting a cover for his […]

Sue Moss Sullivan never set out to create a piece of sustainable artwork. But when a few coffee filters evolved into something much more, she already had. Two of the Oklahoma City artist’s sustainable works are on display in “Rethink: Recycle: Redesign,” a juried exhibit organized by Individual Artists of Oklahoma and Sustainable OKC that […]