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Playing Phantom

With Love Never Dies, Andrew Lloyd Webber expands the world of The Phantom of the Opera, returning to its characters and their choices in love, song and locale.

Some stories don’t die, even after their official end.

By Ian Jayne Nov 9, 2018

Bronson Norris Murphy Love Never Dies The Phantom of the Opera OKC Broadway Civic Center Music Hall Madame Giry Meg Giry

Lethal beauty

An encaustic artist recreates the cancers attacking her family in an effort to process the struggle that took her father and threatens her mother.

When one person has cancer, everyone has cancer.

By Charles Martin Nov 9, 2018

Gayle L. Curry Phyllis Curry cancer Unknown Origins encaustic art Marissa Raglin The Intentionalists The Paseo District Kay Orr In Your Eye Studio & Gallery

Acting honor

Film actor Stephen Lang brings the stories of eight recipients of the Medal of Honor in one-man show Beyond Glory.

From General George Washington to Colonel Miles Quaritch in James Cameron’s Avatar, Stephen Lang has played many military men on big and small screens.

By Jeremy Martin Nov 8, 2018

Stephen Lang Avatar James Cameron A Few Good Men Beyond Glory Larry Smith Medal of Honor Oklahoma City Community College’s Visual and Performing Center Theater OCCC military Daniel Inouye Mary Walker

The doors

A sculpture professor from University of Oklahoma encourages exploration with an installation meant to be engaged, if not entirely understood.

Artist statements can be a tricky business, especially when the creators aren’t trying to portray a story or a message, but to capture a specific feeling, an abstraction.

By Charles Martin Nov 7, 2018

Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art Threshold With Me Daren Kendall Sandor Gallery OU School of Dance Book Dossey

Raising voices

Vienna Boys Choir performs at Edmond’s Armstrong Auditorium Nov. 20.

One of the oldest collectives of touring musicians returns to Oklahoma as Vienna Boys Choir performs at Armstrong Auditorium in Edmond Nov. 20.

By Daniel Bokemper Nov 7, 2018

Vienna Boys Choir Armstrong Auditorium Edmond Tina Breckwoldt Maximilian I Holy Roman Empire Franz Schubert Austria

Riding West

An exhibit at Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art explores the art and advertising that transformed the way people viewed the American West.

Get your ticket to ride across the pastoral landscapes of the American West in an exhibit that welcomes its viewers to climb aboard for a scenic voyage through time and history.

By Joshua Blanco Nov 2, 2018

Ticket to Ride American West Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art Thomas Moran Gilded Age Ticket to Ride: Artists Designers and Western Railways Hadley Jerman Kaylee Kain Joni L. Kinsey Thomas Moran and Visual Travel in the Gilded Age travel travel art Wylodean Saxon Lecture series All Aboard! Mark White Melissa Ski Oklahoma Model Railroad Association

Swan song

OKC Phil Maestro Joel Levine passes the baton as head of the orchestra he founded.

There is no telling which direction fate might take us.

By Ben Luschen Nov 2, 2018

Joel Levine Oklahoma City Philharmonic OKC Phil Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Civic Center Music Hall Oklahoma Symphony Orchestra Alexander Mickelthwate Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra Aaron Copland Maurice Ravel Eastman School of Music University of Rochester Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma Lisa Harvey-Reed Eddie Walker

Musical compassion

University of Oklahoma stages a perfectly timed musical about a Vietnam War-era Marine and a forgiving folk singer caught up in a toxic culture.

Dogfight might be one the most interesting choices one could make for a University of Oklahoma stage production in 2018 — the year of #MeToo, Christine Blasey Ford versus Brett Kavanaugh, the year the term “toxic masculinity” went mainstream.

By Charles Martin Oct 31, 2018

Daryl Tofa Eddie Birdlace Dogfight Katja Yankdo Rose Fenny University of Oklahoma fine

Sacred objects

Two shows at JRB Art at The Elms explore the spiritual.

For its November show, JRB Art at The Elms, 2810 N. Walker Ave., transcends the normalcy of daily routines, giving viewers an opportunity to turn their attention inward for a moment of tranquil reflection.

By Joshua Blanco Oct 31, 2018

JRB Art at The Elms Spirit Masks Sacred Show Diana J. Smith G. Patrick Riley Joy Reed Belt Claudia Wiley G.L. August Loessberg Lanny Fiegenschuh Melodee Martin Ramirez Marjorie Atwood

HALLOWEEN Brightness adjustment

Theatre Upon a StarDanceSwan lights the Magic Lantern for the 18th year.

Halloween gets most of the attention in October, but Lorrie Keller, director of Theatre Upon a StarDanceSwan and founder of the Magic Lantern celebration, wants people to know the season can be about more than scares.

By Jeremy Martin Oct 26, 2018

HALLOWEEN Collaborative dissonance

Tracing its roots to the early 20th century France, Exquisite Corpse is part parlor game and part surrealist art revelry that will make its debut at [Artspace] at Untitled for a fundraiser and preview event Friday before its public four-week showing beginning Oct. 31.

By Jacob Threadgill Oct 26, 2018

Exquisite Corpse [pace] at Untitled Meredith Zerby All Hallow’s Eve Celebration & Auction Joe Warriner Laura Warriner

Extra texture

Tactile art takes center stage with Mainsite Contemporary Art’s Touchy-Feely.

Mainsite Contemporary Art opened its doors Oct. 12 to the new Touchy-Feely exhibit, featuring artists “who exploit the objectivity of paint in unexpected ways.” As the name suggests, the works challenge the concept of traditional painting and sculpture in a marriage of unconventional techniques not normally staged in a Mainsite gallery.

By Joshua Blanco Oct 24, 2018

Mainsite Contemporary Art Touchy-Feely Sarah Clough Caitlin Albritton William Larson Sara Cowan Sasha Backhaus Norman Oklahoma Art

HALLOWEEN: Goth style

Oklahoma Gazette takes Halloween into high fashion territory with its cover shoot

On Oct. 8, a team of creative and enthusiastic designers, photographers, videographers, models, makeup and hair artists, wardrobe stylists and props masters descended on The Paramount OKC, 701 W. Sheridan Ave., all for the purpose of shooting an Oklahoma Gazette Halloween cover unlike any other in our history. It came at a momentous time; having recently added several new and talented people to Oklahoma Gazette’s visual and creative teams, we wanted to let them loose on a project and take it from concept to completion.

By George Lang Oct 22, 2018

Slideshow

Bloody good

Carpenter Square Theatre gets into the Halloween season with horror satire Slasher.

In preparation for directing the horror-comedy play Slasher, director Terry Veal went on a rampage, ripping through episodes of a popular scary TV show on an online streaming service.

By Jeremy Martin Oct 19, 2018

Ashley Bower Peter Fischaber Matthew Moreillon Jessica Bisel Carpenter Square Theatre Slasher Terry Veal Rhonda Clark Allison Moore

Pop stars

Classical trio Time for Three combines traditional standards with pop music at Armstrong Auditorium.

Time for Three has played Carnegie Hall, the Indy 500 and Dancing With the Stars since forming in 2001, but the trio just recently started singing.

By Jeremy Martin Oct 18, 2018

Time for Three Carnegie Hall Dancing With the Stars Charles Yang Nicolas Kendall Ranaan Meyer Nashville Armstrong Auditorium

Wondrous production

Oklahoma City Ballet mounts an ambitious production of Alice (in Wonderland).

When the Mock Turtle and the Gryphon ask Alice to recount her adventures in Wonderland, she initially refuses.

By Jeremy Martin Oct 17, 2018

Oklahoma City Ballet Lewis Carroll Oklahoma City Philharmonic Civic Center Music Hall’s Thelma Gaylord Performing Theatre Robert Mills Washington Ballet’s Kennedy Center Eric Van Wyk Yvonne Chouteau School Miki Kawamura DaYoung Jung Through the Looking Glass Septime Were Charles Martin Angelina Sansone Laura Hunt

Hunting eggs

An international artist and storyteller explores viewer projection in a cross-discipline collaboration with University of Oklahoma College of Fine Arts.

A cluster of 10 black, cushioned headphones hung at one end of the The Lightwell Gallery underneath a looming, multi-story abstract tapestry.

By Charles Martin Oct 17, 2018

The Lightwell Gallery The Blind Rooms immersive exhibit University of Oklahoma’s School of Visual Art Juliacks

Striking film

Mickey Reece’s new film Strike, Dear Mistress, and Cure His Heart screens at Rodeo Cinema Oct. 18.

Online movie database IMDB credits Mickey Reece as writer and director on 30 films.

By Jeremy Martin Oct 12, 2018

Mickey Reece Strike Dear Mistress Cure His Heart Rodeo Cinema Austin’s Fantastic Fest Elia Kazan A Streetcar Named Desire Autumn Sonata Alien deadCenter Marlon Brando Mary Buss Dianne Herbert

Curious Jad

Radiolab host Jad Abumrad headlines Oklahoma Humanities’ first-ever Curiosity Fest.

Not knowing can make you feel sick, but maybe that isn’t a bad thing.

By Jeremy Martin Oct 12, 2018

Jad Abumrad Radiolab Curiosity Fest National Public Radio NPR Oklahoma Humanities Michael Elsesser Richard Wagner WNYC Adam and Kizzie

Radical art

An exhibit at OKCMOA explores the ways the Pre-Raphaelites brought color and sincerity to art in the 19th century.

On Saturday, Oklahoma City Museum of Art opens Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts and Crafts Movement, its latest display featuring works from as early as the mid-1800s.

By Joshua Blanco Oct 12, 2018

Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the and Crafts Movement Oklahoma City Museum of Art Birmingham Museums Trust Kate Bunce Birmingham England Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Romanticism Jessica Valentine Roja Najafi and Crafts Movement William Morris Henry Wallis Julie Codell Victorian England John Hardman Powell John Hardman & Co. Michael Anderson

Funny books

Comic book artist and ambassador Jerry Bennett was awarded a one-year residency at The Skirvin Hilton Hotel to promote sequential art.

Jerry Bennett’s boisterous and bellowing laugh is a whale song within the region’s comic book community, guiding fans through perilous mobs of cosplayers and pop culture completionists packed into sprawling convention spaces.

By Charles Martin Oct 10, 2018

Jerry Bennett Skirvin Paseo Artist Creativity Exposition The Skirvin Hilton Hotel Creepers SPACE Marissa Raglin Amanda Bleakley Jeff Provine

Indigenous voices

A new theater company plans to focus on individual Native American playwrights and theater crafters.

In 2010, Oklahoma City Theatre Company launched the Native American New Play Festival to showcase the creative talents of indigenous playwrights.

By Jeremy Martin Oct 10, 2018

Oklahoma City Theatre Company Native American New Play Festival Round Dance Arigon Starr David Perryman Oklahoma City Theatre Company Maya Torralba Oklahoma Indigenous Theatre Company Rick Nelson Sarah d’ Angelo Misty Red Elk David Briquet Randi LeClair Barbara Hobson Wilson Daingkau Carolyn Dunn Cynthia Cunningham

Staged study

Carpenter Square Theatre’s Best in Ten fundraiser features 10-minute staged readings.

The plays presented at Best in Ten are shorter than average, but that doesn’t necessarily make them any easier to write.

By Jeremy Martin Oct 5, 2018

Road trip

Oklahoma expatriate artists bring the diaspora back home with Truckload of Art.

In the words of singer-songwriter Terry Allen, Oklahoma City will soon have the chance to see “significant piles and influential heaps of art work” hauled in from Santa Fe, New Mexico.

By Jeremy Martin Oct 3, 2018

JRB Art at the Elms Truckload of Art Elizabeth Hahn Michael Freed Sallyann Milam Paschall Max Lehman

Theatrical tension

Jewel Box Theatre’s upcoming production of Wait Until Dark brings a suspenseful story of feminist agency to the stage.

Traditionally, there’s a moment just before a play begins when the house lights have been turned off and the auditorium fills with suspenseful anticipation.

By Ian Jayne Oct 3, 2018

Wait Until Dark Jewel Box Theatre J. Christine Lanning David Fletcher-Hall Frederick Knott Audrey Hepburn Susy Hendrix Don Taylor Mr. Roat stage tricks theater

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