Arts

More than 3,000 years ago, a privileged 19-year-old Egyptian, given to hunting from his chariot, took a spill that shattered his leg just above the knee. WORLD TOURDESIGN The injury had to have been excruciating, in a time when little could be done but rub ointment and pray. For pain, there might have been beer. […]

Acts of nature can be unpredictable, beautiful and sometimes miraculous. A lone heart-shaped leaf at Lions Park in Norman is all three.   Professional photographer Ken Davis recently lost his 2-year-old nephew, Weston Luke Guiltner, who died unexpectedly of unknown causes on Sept. 16. On Oct. 23, the family planted two trees at Lions Park in […]

Post-college, many artists enter a difficult transition where they can’t rely on scholarships, grants and awards, and must forge an audience for their work in the art world.   MIXED-MEDIA PIECESFREE REIGN Mainsite Contemporary Art’s “Emergent Artists” show focuses on four artists tramping out their own paths as they work to establish their careers.  “Being an […]

ke it known to his family that he loved them while he was alive. Only Carl (Michael Castile), the family’s younger son, and the audience can see Dad or his ghost or whatever it is, so Carl must channel his father’s messages to the family. FAMILY ACTSMom (Kris Schinske) acts as if she’s in the […]

Antiestablishment nihilists might be a common perception of modern artists, but community pride isn’t unheard of within the creative class. JEFFERSON PARKCOMPANION EXHIBIT City Arts Center has two large exhibitions that will be on display through Dec. 20, featuring dozens of artists focusing on Oklahoma. One exhibit features artists who redesigned the state flag, while […]

d in how men and women in America define and act out gender in relation to cultural memes.”  Stokes said the exhibit addresses a range of issues, including questions about whether instincts “inform our choices,” or if those choices are actually guided by society. “Gendering America” also explores the advent of feminism, the sexual revolution […]

There’s something amusingly perverse about watching a musical on a stage in the basement of a Methodist Church that pokes fun at Catholicism and those eternal sources of humor: nuns. Catholics shouldn’t fear, however: “Nuncrackers” is a good-natured satire that is out to entertain, not offend. Aside from a few instances of somewhat bawdy humor, […]

Taking a creative leap across the Pacific, a local theater company has adapted William Shakespeare’s classic love story, staging star-crossed lovers who meet on an American naval base in post-World War II Japan. The Reduxion Theatre Company’s opening performance of “Romeo and Juliet” is 8 p.m. Friday at Stage Center, 400 W. Sheridan. “There’s a […]

The Sooner Theatre continues its “Sooner Stage Presents” series with a production of the beloved Broadway classic “Annie.” Among the most-known musicals of the last three decades, the Tony award-winning “Annie” tells the story of a spunky, Depression-era orphan determined to reconnect with parents who abandoned her years before on the doorstep of a New […]

It’s no surprise that “Love Letters” was nominated for a Pulitzer back in the late 1980s “? it’s a fantastic play. Its original and elegant depiction of a lifelong romance between Melissa Gardner and Andrew M. Ladd III is told exclusively through a correspondence that begins in the second grade in the 1930s and continues […]