Best of OKC 2020: Arts, Culture & Entertainment
By Gazette staff
Tags: Best of Arts, Culture & Entertainment, My So Called Band, Nicnos, Superfreak, Uncle Zep, Weekend Allstars, Mike Hosty, Jabee, Kyle Dillingham & Horseshoe Road, Sophia Massad, The Dirty Little Betty’s, Joey and Heather, 98.9 KYIS, Lisa and Kent, 92.5 KOMA, Rick and Brad, 100.5 KATT, Shawn Carey, 96.1 KXY, TJ, Janet and JRod, 102.7 KJ103, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, Carpenter Square Theatre, Oklahoma City Ballet, Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Terre Rouge Burlesque, Greg Burns, David Bricquet, Denise Duong, Dylan Bradway, Jason Pawley, Festival of the Arts, Arts Council Oklahoma City, Heard on Hurd, Norman Music Festival, Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon, Paseo Arts Festival, Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon, Boots & Ball Gowns, Infant Crisis Services; Crown of Beauty Gala, The Dragonfly Home; Hero Awards, Oklahoma Humane Society; Red Tie Night, Paseo Arts Festival, Dust Bowl Dolls, Festival of the Arts, Heard on Hurd, Sonic Summer Movies, VZD’s Restaurant & Bar, 51st Street Speakeasy, Blue Note Lounge, JJ’s Alley Bricktown Pub, Saints, Chesapeake Energy Arena, The Criterion, The Jones Assembly, The Zoo Amphitheatre, Tower Theatre, Plaza Walls, Flamenco by Jonathan Hills, The Paseo Arts District; Life in the Light by Denise Duong, Film Row; New Zealand OKC Thunder player Steven Adams by Graham Hoete, Film Row; The OKC Ring, City Center, The Paseo Arts District, 16th Street Plaza District; Artspace at Untitled; DNA Galleries; Festival of the Arts, Arts Council Oklahoma City, DNA Galleries, Artspace at Untitled, Individual Artists of Oklahoma (IAO), JRB Art at the Elms, Little D Gallery, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum, Sam Noble Museum, Science Museum Oklahoma, 16th Street Plaza District, Bricktown, Midtown, The Paseo Arts District, Uptown 23rd District, Riverwind Casino, Grand Casino Hotel & Resort, Newcastle Casino, Remington Park Racing & Casino, WinStar World Casino and Resort, The Boom!, HiLo Club, Partners, The Copa, Tramps
OKG Lifestyle: Donald Jordan
By Gazette staff
Tags: Community & Lifestyle, OKG Lifestyle, Donald Jordan, Coolgreens, The Good Place, Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Teacher Got Wrong, James W. Loewen, Bon Appétit’s Gourmet Makes, Bon Appétit, Gourmet Makes, Stockyards City, Iron Star, Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre, OKC Broadway, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Shakespeare, Pollard Theatre Company, Carpenter Square Theatre, Painted Sky Opera, Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Canterbury Choral Society, The New York Times
Survivors’ guilt
Carpenter Square Theatre’s production of The Library finds cruelty and catharsis in the aftermath of a school shooting.
By Jeremy Martin
Tags: Arts, theater, Carpenter Square Theatre, The Library, John Kovaleskie, Ford Filson, Alexandra Shadid, Grant Brittan, Sara Byerly, Denise Hughes, Aiesha Watley, Cindy Barrios, Scott Z. Burns, Ben Brantley, Terry Veal, Rhonda Clark
Home cooking
Lyric Theatre’s Having Our Say reveals 20th-century America through the eyes of two centenarian sisters.
By Jeremy Martin
Tags: Arts, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, Lyric Theatre, Julia Lema, Terry Burrell, Monique Midgette, Having Our Say, Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years, Emily Mann, Amy Hill Hearth, theater
War requiem
Glory Denied, presented by Painted Sky Opera, is a complicated tragedy based on an actual prisoner of war.
By Jeremy Martin
Tags: Arts, theater, opera, Painted Sky Opera, Tom Cipullo, Glory Denied, Freede Little Theatre, Civic Center Music Hall, Jim Thompson, Green Beret, Vietnam, Alyce Thompson, Rob Glaubitz, Saira Frank, André Chiang, Veterans Affairs
‘Friendly meetings’
Jane Austen’s Christmas Cracker encourages the audience to step into Austen’s world and celebrate the season with friends.
By Jeremy Martin
Tags: Arts, Jane Austen’s Christmas Cracker, Shakespeare on the Paseo, Jane Austen, Tyler Woods, Erin Woods, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Christmas
Guide to the Holidays: Hometown Christmas
Norman-based The Imaginaries make the most of holiday music’s “evergreen” appeal.
By Jeremy Martin
Tags: Music Features, Music, music news, arts & culture, arts, culture, entertainment, Norman, The Imaginaries, Christmas, Maggie McClure, Shane Henry, The Brian Setzer Orchestra, Christmas Rocks! Tour, Hometown Christmas, Christmas music, holiday music, John Cuniberti, The OneMic Series, Aretha Franklin, Gregg Allman, Little Richard, Brian Setzer
Curtain call
Jewel Box Theatre finishes a 62-season run in its current location with Little Old Ladies in Tennis Shoes.
By Jeremy Martin
Tags: Community & Lifestyle, Theatre, Theater, Arts & Culture, arts, culture, entertainment, Jewel Box Theatre, Deborah Franklin, Little Old Ladies in Tennis Shoes, Jewel Box, The Dixie Swim Club, Kate Corrigan, Denise Hughes, Chris Harris, Molly Blumenthal, The Star-Spangled Girl, First Christian Church, Darron Dunbar
Stage dive
Psychedelic garage rock band Pearl Earl stops at Norman’s Opolis on the way to starting a new chapter.
By Jeremy Martin
Tags: Music Features, Music, Arts & Culture, arts, culture, entertainment, Pearl Earl, Ariel Hartley, Opolis, Bailey K. Chapman, Denton, Texas, Minneapolis, Minnesota, psychedelic rock, Los Angeles, Stefanie Lazcano, Chelsey Dannielle, Something’s Gotta Change, EP, Helen Kelter, Psychotic Reaction
Quality Dolly!
Put on your Sunday clothes to see a star-studded cast bring Broadway’s favorite Yonkers matchmaker to life in OKC.
By Jeremy Martin
Tags: Community & Lifestyle, Arts, Culture, Theater, Hello Dolly, Civic Center Music Hall, Civic Center, Thelma Gaylord Performing Arts Theatre, Sean Burns, Barnaby Tucker, Broadway, OKC Broadway, It Takes a Woman, Before the Parade Passes By, Put on Your Sunday Clothes, John Bolton, Horace Vandergelder, Carolee Carmello, Dolly Gallagher Levi, Dolly, Cornelius, Ermengarde, Ambrose, Daniel Beeman, Laura Sky Herman, Colin LeMoine, Lewis J. Stadlen, Betty Buckley, Carol Channing, Pearl Bailey, Phyllis Diller, Ginger Rogers, Ethel Merman, Barbra Streisand, Bette Midler, Bernadette Peters, Jerry Zaks, Tony Award, film adaptation, Stephen Edlund
Impact strength
Five local organizations benefit from sizable Impact Oklahoma grants as the nonprofit gears up for its next grant cycle.
By Miguel Rios
Tags: State, Impact Oklahoma, Sooner Theatre, OKC Metro Alliance, Putnam City Schools Foundation, Variety Care, Central Oklahoma Humane Society, Oklahoma State University, Women’s First, sober living recovery program, commercial kitchen, Connie Schlittler, Nancy Coggins, performing arts, theater, culture, grants, beneficiaries, philanthropy, nonprofit, Trauma Drama, scholarships, special needs, community, education, health and wellness, healthy families, Circles of Impact, Shannon Presti, Woman of Influence, Social Capital, membership mixer
Interactive Horror
The Rocky Horror Show returns to Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma with a spooky makeover.
By Jeremy Martin
Tags: Community & Lifestyle, The Rocky Horror Show, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, Lyric Theatre, Lyric at the Plaza, Richard O’Brien, West End, London, Brad, Janet, Dr. Frank-N-Furter, Scott Miller, Inside Rocky Horror, J. Robert Moore, Riff Raff, Jon Young, Eric Ulloa, Emily J. Pace, Antonio Rodriguez, theater, local theater