Art Moves works on the premise that if you can’t bring the people to the art, then bring the art to the people. Every afternoon for an hour, usually from noon to 1 p.m., the Arts Council travels around Oklahoma City to put on art events with artists, musicians or dancers. The idea for the […]
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On-fire farce
Set in a New York City restaurant kitchen, Tom Rooney’s “Flaming Idiots” is a contemporary farce that has nothing to do with mentally deficient homosexuals, but instead follows the entrepreneurial misadventures of two former postal employees in their attempt to run a gourmet health-food restaurant. One problem: Carl and Phil have no idea what they’re […]
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On-fire farce
Set in a New York City restaurant kitchen, Tom Rooney’s “Flaming Idiots” is a contemporary farce that has nothing to do with mentally deficient homosexuals, but instead follows the entrepreneurial misadventures of two former postal employees in their attempt to run a gourmet health-food restaurant. One problem: Carl and Phil have no idea what they’re […]
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Nothin’ ‘Normal’ about it
A musical tragedy about a bipolar woman might not seem appealing to some theatergoers, but Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre’s well-done, emotional production of “Next to Normal” provides a rare respite from the inane musicals and insipid comedies. Under the direction of Michael Jones, this musical doesn’t insult the audience’s intelligence. The show received a Tony […]
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Nothin’ ‘Normal’ about it
A musical tragedy about a bipolar woman might not seem appealing to some theatergoers, but Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre’s well-done, emotional production of “Next to Normal” provides a rare respite from the inane musicals and insipid comedies. Under the direction of Michael Jones, this musical doesn’t insult the audience’s intelligence. The show received a Tony […]
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Go right meow
Based on T.S. Eliot’s “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats” and composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, the now-infamous “Cats” debuted in the New London Theatre on May 11, 1981, making it the second longest-running Broadway show of all-time. Don’t think London and New York gets all of that feline frenzy. Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma’s Thelma […]
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Go right meow
Based on T.S. Eliot’s “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats” and composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, the now-infamous “Cats” debuted in the New London Theatre on May 11, 1981, making it the second longest-running Broadway show of all-time. Don’t think London and New York gets all of that feline frenzy. Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma’s Thelma […]
Posted inArts & Culture
Go right meow
Based on T.S. Eliot’s “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats” and composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, the now-infamous “Cats” debuted in the New London Theatre on May 11, 1981, making it the second longest-running Broadway show of all-time. Don’t think London and New York gets all of that feline frenzy. Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma’s Thelma […]
Posted inArts & Culture
Nothin’ ‘Normal’ about it
A musical tragedy about a bipolar woman might not seem appealing to some theatergoers, but Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre’s well-done, emotional production of “Next to Normal” provides a rare respite from the inane musicals and insipid comedies. Under the direction of Michael Jones, this musical doesn’t insult the audience’s intelligence. The show received a Tony […]
Posted inArts & Culture
Great Dane
Reduxion Theatre opens its “Original Sins”-themed fourth season with a stripped-down, but impressively acted production of William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” Transported from its original medieval setting to 1938 Denmark, Reduxion’s “Hamlet” still tells the tragic tale, without further alteration, of Prince Hamlet’s quest for revenge against his uncle Claudius for murdering his father and for ascending […]