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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Carpenter Square Theatre presents Civil War drama The Whipping Man
The show draws parallels between Jewish and African slavery.
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IAO Gallery turns back the clock with traditional audio play Not Worth Shootin’
Co-playwrights Gaylene Murphy and Linda McDonald met at the University of Central Oklahoma.
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Guthrie’s Pollard Theatre offers actor-driven comedy God of Carnage
God of Carnage features the boiling emotions of parenthood.
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‘Buried’ issues
Calling the Illinois farm family in Sam Shepard’s “Buried Child” dysfunctional would be the understatement of the year. Here’s how patriarch Dodge puts it: “You think just because people propagate they have to love their offspring? You never seen a bitch eat her puppies?” These are the type of people who play keep-away with a […]
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Slow connection
“You’ve Got Hate Mail” is a comedy about infidelity in the computer age. Written by Billy Van Zandt and Jane Milmore, the play is told entirely through emails, chat messages and texts between five characters who read aloud and react to the correspondence. There’s the appropriately named Richard, a lawyer who can’t keep his little […]