Arts

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

roduction, they loved Mozart’s music, but hated the words,” said Alicia Tafoya, guest director. “For a time, people would add new lyrics when performing the opera because they were so offended by it.” FRENCH FARCES Tafoya said “Cos

e told out of insecurity creates big problems. “It’s a story of contrasts and duality “? sort of an Old-World-meets-New-World situation,” said director David Herendeen. “Further emphasizing the duality of the piece, Tony sings in this beautiful Italian accent with rhapsodic, almost operatic quality, while Rosabella sings with very music-theater quality, so the flavors of […]

Sponsored by the Arts Council of Oklahoma City, the 43rd Annual Festival of the Arts includes 144 fine artists, more than 300 performance artists, four stages of entertainment, a youth plaza with activities for children and families, an international food row and a sculpture park. Emily Reagan, arts council communications director, said more than 750,000 […]

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 […]

“Talking With “¦” features 11 female characters telling stories about seminal moments in their lives that deal with a range of issues including life, death, faith, love, loneliness and obsession. Despite the varied topics, the women share a common humanity and an ability to cope while the stories themselves are a consistent intermingled blend of […]