The play was adapted from the gothic novella by Susan Hill.
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Puppet masters
You know you’re in for something different early in The Pollard Theatre’s excellent production of Avenue Q performs a bouncy tune titled “It Sucks to Be Me.” That song is followed by the accurate “The Internet Is for Porn” and the brief (no pun intended) “I’m Not Wearing Underwear Today.” Thus, this little musical tells […]
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Triple play
We’re all for synergy, but the collaborative production of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest by Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre, Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park and Oklahoma City University’s TheatreOCU makes one wonder why all that theatrical brainpower couldn’t come up with a better product. Director Lance Marsh’s cast operates with energy, but the […]
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Welcome pest
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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Comedy by the slice
<span style=" Arial” ,”sans-serif””=””> Jim Gaffigan is white. Very white. So white, he’s dubbed his current stand-up tour as “The White Bread Tour.” “I’ve heard that my style of comedy is kind of white bread, in kind of a derogatory way. So I thought it would be funny to just embrace it,” Gaffigan said. “And […]
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‘Love’s Labour’s’ libraries
For the third year running, Reduxion Theatre Company will take Shakespeare to the people. Through April 13, audiences can revisit one of the Bard’s original comedies, Love’s Labour’s Lost. Reduxion partnered with Metropolitan Library System to create an accessible, interactive theater-going experience. Shakespeare should be for everybody, according to Tyler Woods, Reduxion’s artistic director. He […]
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‘Mock,’ yeah
Guthrie’s Pollard Theatre Company presents Christopher Sergel’s dramatization of Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird. This is interesting, because Guthrie in 1935 may have been much like the fictional Alabama town where Lee set her classic tale. Who hasn’t read the Pulitzer Prizewinning book or seen its 1962 movie version? When a theater company […]
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‘Muff’ ’s the word
Bryna Shackelford Women take the local stand-up comedy spotlight tonight for an allfemale showcase — estrogen-challenged host James Curtis excepted. Muff Madness will feature headliner Jenny Godwin, with Bryna Shackelford, Jessica Kyle, Heather King and Melissa McGinnis as openers. While Godwin has performed comedy locally for almost two years, Madness marks her first time in […]
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Cave dwellers
In Defending the Caveman, now being presented by Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre in Civic Center Music Hall’s Freede Little Theatre, playwright Rob Becker says civilization is divided into two genders: women and assholes. It stars the affable, but bland John Venable. He hits his marks, speaks his lines and leaves little lasting impression. One could […]
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A night in Paris
The Oklahoma City Ballet revisits the Paris of the early 1900s in Paris Rouge, a triple bill choreographed by the troupe’s artistic director, Robert Mills. While the three pieces differ greatly, he said they are tied together by a “European sensibility.” Set in a sultry Parisian nightclub, Mills’ Paris Rouge was inspired largely by Gaîté […]