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Lovers and madmen

To quote the Bard, Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park’s 34th season starts with “love’s stories written in love’s richest books” and ends in “grim-visaged war.” Season opener A Midsummer Night’s Dream, a romantic comedy, is scheduled Thursday-June 23 and season finale Richard III, a story of brutality and betrayal, is scheduled Sept. 13-28, both at […]

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All a ‘Dream’

Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park has upped its costume budget lately, and the results show. Robert Pittenridge designed them for all OSP shows this summer, and his “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” work, now at the Myriad Gardens Water Stage, is downright sumptuous. Hippolyta carries a bow and an arrow-filled quiver for much of the play, […]

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Beautiful, long ‘Hair’

Developed in 1967, “Hair” is more experience than narrative, immersing the audience in the culture and conflicts of the 1960s through mostly great songs and loosely connected scenes. It bravely tackled taboo issues of the time, including the hippie lifestyle, civil rights, drug use, the sexual revolution and the antiwar movement. What story there is […]

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