The Children Jan. 12- Feb. 2 Carpenter Square Theatre 1009 W. Reno Ave. 405-232-6500 carpentersquare.com $10-30 Imagine you’re a retired nuclear scientist living with your partner in a remote seaside cottage. There’s a post-apocalyptic sense of foreboding in the air, although you’re happy to live out the rest of your days right there — until […]
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Best of OKC 2020: Arts, Culture & Entertainment
Best local cover band My So Called Band Ah, for the old days of packing ‘em in at the Tower Theater and Tulsa’s Vanguard. Those times will return and when they do My So Called Band will be there to once again tear up hits from the 1990’s and early 2000’s. Formed in 2010, the […]
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OKG Lifestyle: Donald Jordan
OKG Picks EAT Coolgreens’ Harvest Salad WATCH The Good Place (Hulu and Netflix) LISTEN Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast READ Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Teacher Got Wrong by James W. Loewen LOVE Bon Appétit’s Gourmet Makes (YouTube) EXPERIENCE Stockyards City Donalds Jordan’s Picks EAT beef tenderloin salad at Iron Star WATCH […]
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Survivors’ guilt
The Library Friday-March 14 Carpenter Square Theatre 800 W. Main St. carpentersquare.com 405-232-6500 $5-$25 The Library opens with a 16-year-old high school student being rolled into an emergency room. “Riddled with fragments,” says the nurse. “Multiples shotgun blasts to chest and abdomen,” the surgeon replies. The play, which runs Friday-March 14 at Carpenter Square Theatre, […]
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Best of OKC 2019: Arts, Culture & Entertainment
Best local cover band My So Called Band Nicnos Superfreak Uncle Zep Weekend Allstars Best local original band or singer Mike Hosty Jabee Kyle Dillingham & Horseshoe Road Sophia Massad The Dirty Little Betty’s Best radio personality or team Joey and Heather 98.9 KYIS Lisa and Kent, 92.5 KOMA Rick and Brad, 100.5 KATT Shawn […]
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Darkness visible
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Feb. 15-March 9 Carpenter Square Theatre 800 W. Main St. carpentersquare.com 405-232-6500 $5-$25 Jeffrey Hatcher’s stage adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde tests whether audiences can ever get enough of a bad thing. The play, scheduled to run Feb. 15-March 9 at Carpenter Square Theatre, 800 W. Main St., […]
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Theatrical spectrum
Dancing Lessons Friday-Jan 29 Carpenter Square Theatre 800 W. Main St. carpentersquare.com 232-6500 $5-$25 The romantic comedy is a genre that gets at everything: love, life and the individuals who journey through both. Carpenter Square Theatre’s upcoming production of Dancing Lessons — a heartwarming look at the nuances of identity and romance — encapsulates all […]
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Table for one
An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf Friday-Dec. 15 Carpenter Square Theatre 806 W. Main St. carpentersquare.com 405-232-6500 $5-$25 “I’ll probably go the same way,” Ernest Hemingway wrote shortly after his father’s suicide. Years later, on July 2, 1961, the acclaimed novelist died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home in Ketchum, […]
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Bloody good
Slasher Friday Nov. 3 Carpenter Square Theatre 800 W. Main St. carpentersquare.com 405-232-6500 $5-$25 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. “I’ve kind of gotten hooked on American Horror Story,” Veal said. “I’ve […]
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Arts-focused
Opus X: Club Cabaret 6:30 p.m. Oct. 12 The Criterion 500 E. Sheridan Ave. alliedartsokc.com 405-278-8944 $250 If life is a cabaret, old chum, there might be less to love without the arts. “Without the arts,” said April Gonzalez, marketing and public relations manager at Allied Arts, “the community culture would be very dry and […]