Disaster! June 7-29 Pollard Theatre 120 W. Harrison Ave., Guthrie thepollard.org 405-282-2800 $15-$30 Guthrie’s Pollard Theatre Company is following its production of Beehive: The ’60s Musical by leaping ahead a decade to ensure the 2018-2019 season ends in Disaster! While both productions are called “jukebox musicals” because their scores consist of popular songs, Disaster!, written […]
comedy
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Iliza millennia
Iliza Shlesinger will bring her kinetic, elastic comedy to Oklahoma City as part of her Elder Millennial Tour. In the Elder Millennial Netflix special, Shlesinger reflects on a time before social media, on relationship complexities in the 2010s, and the differences between men and women. The 35-year-old comic, originally from Dallas, is the only female […]
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Funny people
Ladies Night of Comedy 8 p.m. Jan. 26 The Paramount Room 701 W. Sheridan Ave. facebook.com/theparamountroom 405-887-3327 $7-$10 18+ Fans of stand-up comedy will have the opportunity to start the new year off strong on Jan. 26 with Ladies Night of Comedy, a show featuring a lineup of several up-and-coming female comics. They perform at […]
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Loose in OKC
Kyle Kinane’s Shooting for Third tour 8 p.m. Sunday The Paramount OKC 11 N. Lee Ave. facebook.com/okccomedy $25-$30 “I’m 41, and my name is Kyle, which means I’m on borrowed time, man,” comedian Kyle Kinane told Conan O’Brien earlier this year. “Look, there’s no such thing as an old Kyle. … My name’s not in […]
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Laugh hard
Hannibal Buress 10 p.m. Sept. 12 Tower Theatre 425 NW 23rd St. towertheatreokc.com $35 To preview his Sept. 12 appearance at Tower Theatre, we conducted a phone interview with Hannibal Buress — we think. In addition to his work on 30 Rock, Broad City and The Eric Andre Show, the stand-up comic, actor and podcast […]
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Croc pot
It’s 1 a.m. on a Tuesday morning. You’re in Taos, New Mexico. Ethereal music drifts from the radio speakers until an electronically altered bass voice says this: “Did you hear that change in tempo? You must’ve heard it. It slid right in there. What’s going on around here? You probably fell asleep with your radio […]
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Open opportunity
Public Access open mic 7 p.m. Sundays The Paseo Plunge 3010 Paseo St. paseoplunge.com 405-315-6224 Free Every healthy, vibrant creative community needs its ground level — a gateway into live performance with little to no entry threshold where musicians, comedians and artists of all levels of experience can practice their craft and express themselves. In […]
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Letting loose
Nick Swardson’s new stand-up special is about bowel movements, which is not a euphemism for an acrid modern news cycle or the politically correct internet call-out culture that works so many other comedians into a tizzy. Nope; this is just good, old-fashioned potty humor — nothing on stage but a mic and a stool. “It’s […]
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Western swing and comedy quartet Riders in the Sky brings its Christmas tour to OKC while celebrating 40 years
Western swing and comedy quartet Riders in the Sky brings its Christmas tour to OKC while celebrating 40 years.
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All-time great voice actor Rob Paulsen brings Animaniacs Live! to Oklahoma City.
All-time great voice actor Rob Paulsen brings Animaniacs Live! to Oklahoma City.