Arts

From his first fourth-grade play to working with the Orlando Theatre Project in Florida, Lance Garrett had always wanted to start a theater. A couple of years ago, he and wife Emily Etherton, an actress and former Carpenter Square board member, began exploring the idea of a new theater group. While working on a local […]

Get in touch with your spiritual side for the final days of the fifth annual “Virgen de Guadalupe and Other Sacred Images Exhibit” Wednesday through Saturday at Adelante! Gallery, 3003 Paseo. The exhibit includes more than 50 pieces of spiritual artwork created by Cynthia Daniel Wolfe, Jo Vanden and 10 other Oklahoma artists. “We all […]

Memorable theater grabs you emotionally and holds you even after you exit your seat. Not listed in any order, these picks for 2007 were made with this in mind. These five shows reeled me in emotionally, kept me there, and fed my thoughts long after I’d left the theater. First, “The Pillowman” by Martin McDonagh […]

Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” has been retold in dozens of stage and screen adaptations, but never one from Jacob Marley’s deceased point of view. Oklahoma City Theatre Company’s current reprise of Tom Mula’s “Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol” intersects with Dickens’ version, but supplies a unique spin. This is theater that doesn’t try to rival […]

In the Thirties, the Plaza Theatre was considered state-of-the-art and was lauded for being Oklahoma’s first air-conditioned theater. But for decades, the building was abandoned and left to ruin, occupied only by rats unconcerned with the theater’s history and architecture. Nearly 30 years after closing its doors and $3.5 million in construction later, a new […]

Just as people need more fiber in their diet, they need more fiber in their art. Answering the call for that recommended daily allowance is an exhibit of fiber art by Martha Green, now on display through Christmas Eve at JRB Art at The Elms, 2810 N. Walker. The Paseo exhibit features themed quilts, fabric […]

  Lyric at the Plaza opened last week, sporting the classiest renovation imaginable for the Thrities-era former cinema on N.W. 16th Street.   New seating for just shy of 300 people, catwalks, a versatile stage area, and new sound and lights all come together to make this a terrific intimate venue the city can glow […]

Every year, the Ballet Oklahoma production of “The Nutcracker” at the Civic Center Music Hall proves to be a popular holiday tradition. But this season, don’t overlook the Norman Ballet Company’s unique take on the Christmas classic.   Yet another official centennial production, the Norman Ballet Company’s staging of “Oklahoma Nutcracker” will be performed Saturday […]

  Now is your chance to travel back in time and find yourself in the middle of downtown Oklahoma City as it stood in 1991, as part of “Oklahoma City Panorama.” The exhibit will be on display until Feb. 10, 2008, at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch.   Sixteen years ago, photographer […]

Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” the tale of Ebenezer Scrooge’s holiday redemption, seems to work wherever it is transplanted, from the Victorian streets of London to 1880s Indian Territory. ‘A CHRISTMAS CAROL’CityRep, Oklahoma City University Theatre and Oklahoma Children’s Theatre have partnered up to present Lance Marsh’s classic adaptation. While this same-named production travels back […]