Roman Catholic Archbishop Paul S. Coakley performed an exorcism and spiritual cleansing in the theater where the black mass was held.
Civic Center Music Hall
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Oklahoma City Ballet puts a new spin on a centuries-old fairy tale
For this production, the role of Cinderella has been double-cast with dancers Miki Kawamura and DaYoung Jung taking turns in the glass slippers.
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Phantom’s Cooper Grodin is keeping everything in perspective
The beautiful soprano Christine becomes the object of a mysterious madman at the center of the show that helped establish Andrew Lloyd Weber as a household name.
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Hear the music
Civic Center Music Hall Photo Provided The Civic Center Complex, which sits on the west side of downtown, is home to City Hall, Civic Center Music Hall, the Oklahoma County Courthouse and OKC’s police station. All four buildings were constructed in the 1930s through a voter-approved municipal bond and a matching grant from the U.S. […]
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Bad politics
An election year may not be the best time to stage David Mamet’s presidential-election comedy, November. The play pales in comparison to the real thing. But I’m not sure any time is good for staging this insipid, tedious slog of a show. Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre is giving it a go at CitySpace under the […]
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Senior moment
Back for its second year, Oklahoma Senior Follies takes its inspiration from the Ziegfeld Follies for a show packed with music, dance and comedy. Former Miss America Jane Jayroe and Oklahoma City University President Robert Henry are emcees for the show, which features performers 55 years and older. “During the week we have special coaching […]
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Stripped down
Deborah Draheim fans (count me among them) have been eager to see her in the consummate musical-theater role for the mature woman, Mama Rose in Gypsy. The buzz was she’d be good in the role, and it proved true, as seen in the modest production now at the Civic Center Music Hall’s Freede Little Theatre. […]
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Can it
Any given performance of Stomp brings the noise with paint cans, basketballs, oil drums, inner tubes, poles, hammers, garbage cans, brooms, drumsticks — enough to give its silent stars ringing ears and a migraine. “I’m probably going to be deaf when I get older,” said performer Guido “Guy” Mandozzi. “We have earplugs backstage, but you […]
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Lawn games
Bicentennial Park, located west of Walker Avenue between City Hall and the Civic Center Music Hall, is home to several memorials and statues commemorating historic individuals including Wiley Post and Stanley Draper, and events such as the state centennial. In January, the city’s Downtown Design Review Committee (DDRC) was presented with a plan to make […]
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Inns and outs
Almost every show in Oklahoma City Theatre Company’s season is an American play written between 1957 and 1982. Why the company has selected plays from such a limited place and period is a mystery, but its current offering is Bernard Slade’s 1975 romantic comedy, “Same Time, Next Year,” directed by Cristela Carrizales. In this Neil […]