Arts

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

“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 […]

Producing 100 paintings in 100 days is a daunting task, no matter how prolific an artist might be. So a quartet of painters has taken up the challenge, divvying up the labor to produce 25 apiece over a 100-day span. “All of our lives are very full, and we’re all artists,” Cynthia Wolf said. “I […]

We are drawn to stories about scary creatures that turn out to be beautiful inside. But, rarely does such a tale arise from real life. “The Elephant Man” does. John Merrick was born in 19th-century England with a hereditary deformity so disfiguring he was dubbed “elephant man.” Abandoned by his parents as a child, his […]

Oklahoma City photographer E. Marissa Lane captured the innocence, beauty and magic of Oklahoma City children and created a collage that will be on display all month at Sauced, 2912 Paseo. Lane took most of the photographs during Paseo’s annual Midsummer Fairie Ball, but other images capture the children around her home and church. She’s […]