Arts

Whether rain or shine, enjoy the landscape from indoors this month with an exhibit of Patricia Hurst Allen’s artwork entitled “Landscape & Memories.” A variety of Allen’s landscape paintings will adorn the walls of the Norman Arts Council gallery through November. “The memories of people in my life, and my travels, the scenes from the […]

Believe it or not, to say much about “Deathtrap” would be playing with spoilers that uninitiated viewers never would forgive. The longest-running comedy/mystery thriller on Broadway, “Deathtrap” was one of the early examples of scripts in which the plot crisscrosses with itself so many times, it’s like playing a crazy board game. Playwright Ira Levin […]

A few years ago, a few Oklahoma City women decided the metro needed a different art show venue “? one that showed work that wasn’t recognized by the art community: “The Girlie Show.” “It’s not all necessarily gallery material, but it’s more than a craft show,” said show organizer Dawn Harth. “We just looked around […]

Local stand-up vets Jason Black and Joel Decker have assembled a showcase of some of the best comedians from Oklahoma for “OKC Comedy Night 2007,” a Friday-evening lineup of nine comics to be headlined by Nathan Anderson, who was featured on Comedy Central’s “Open Mic Fight” competition. “He’s a guy that, from the first time […]

Oklahoma City Theatre Company’s production of “Amadeus” takes a great deal of dramatic license with the actual history of composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, but playwright Peter Shaffer’s smart examinations of jealousy, revenge, politics and music appreciation are so striking. Salieri talks at length to the audience as he plots, rails at God, […]

This Sunday, Jacobson House proudly unveils “The Inner Culture of Mirac Creepingbear.” Although Creepingbear died 17 years ago, he always will be remembered as a self-taught master artist who created a legacy of art through painting and sculpture in just 15 years. His paintings portray the mystic world of American Indian expression and traditions. “Along […]

“The Boys Next Door” are four guys sharing a group apartment in Boston, working at menial jobs in the community. They have dreams of going to Russia, getting married and having children, golfing on the pro circuit and collecting library books. All of them also happen to be mentally and/or physically challenged. For those struggling […]

If a picture is worth a thousand words, David Crismon’s paintings say it all. Each one tells a story about Oklahoma’s past that would have gone untold, had Crismon not brought the characters back to life and put them on display for all to see. In his exhibit “The Light of Day,” Crismon’s paintings are […]

Artists take many different paths on their way to unearthing inspiration for their work, and an upcoming exhibit at MAINSITE Contemporary Art features two differing routes: one obsessive, the other intuitive. DOROTHY MOSESDorothy Moses’ collection, titled “Intuition Inspiration Perspiration,” is a series of portraits and abstracts that started with background and grew organically from there. […]

The figures in Fernando Botero’s sculptures and paintings are fat. In Botero’s world, big is absolutely beautiful and it’s coming to the Oklahoma City Museum of Art on Saturday with the unveiling of “The Baroque World of Fernando Botero.” The traveling exhibit of nearly 100 pieces will run through Dec. 2 as it sheds light […]