By: Emily Etherton Some strong acting highlights an uneven production of Tracy Letts’ drama Bug, a collaboration between OKC Theatre Company and Ghostlight Theatre Club. It takes a while to get going, but the show hits a thrill bump in the last scene, which is played under the eerie glow of real bug zappers. Directed […]
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Of paranoia and pregnancy
Finally, here’s a chance to see Mike Waugh answer nature’s call right onstage. He does this bit of business in Matt Pelfrey’s thriller, An Impending Rupture of the Belly. Being the seasoned pro that he is, Waugh surely shakes the dew off the lily and talks to a man about a horse without fail, and […]
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Winging it
Two years is monumental for any organization trying to build a community-arts program from scratch — even more impressive if that art form is improv. The performance style never really had a home in the metro until Ghostlight Theatre Club opened its doors to OKC Improv, which stages two shows every Saturday night, as well […]
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Winging it
Two years is monumental for any organization trying to build a community-arts program from scratch — even more impressive if that art form is improv. The performance style never really had a home in the metro until Ghostlight Theatre Club opened its doors to OKC Improv, which stages two shows every Saturday night, as well […]
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Winging it
Two years is monumental for any organization trying to build a community-arts program from scratch — even more impressive if that art form is improv. The performance style never really had a home in the metro until Ghostlight Theatre Club opened its doors to OKC Improv, which stages two shows every Saturday night, as well […]
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Earth to ‘Earth’
The awkwardly titled “Jerome Bixby’s The Man from Earth” include characters who are an anthropologist, an archeologist, a biologist and a “Christian literalist,” so you’d expect the play to be a roiling battle of cosmological and ontological wit. You’d be wrong. Bixby wrote short stories and screenplays, mostly science fiction, including episodes of “Star Trek” […]
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Off-script
A major contributor to the growth has been a weekly Saturday showcase at Ghostlight Theatre Club as part of the umbrella group, OKC Improv. “The fantastic part of being Oklahoma’s first ongoing showcase is we get to highlight all these different troupes that are going through classes and getting encouragement from the rest of the […]