The centerpiece of the Gathering Place is like the playground monstrosities that you lost skin (and maybe teeth) to during your childhood. Remember that bonk on the head from third grade? Or when you saw a childhood pal eat it and come back with a cast? Expect some of those memories to come flooding back. […]
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“We’re taking our actors to a gun range,” he said. “It’s a very intense experience, just like the psychological experience of the historical characters we’re portraying.”
“We’re taking our actors to a gun range,” he said. “It’s a very intense experience, just like the psychological experience of the historical characters we’re portraying.”
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The Sound of Music stops at Civic Center Music Hall
Actor Ben Davis applies a clinical approach to understanding his character as Captain Georg von Trapp.
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UCO’s theater department stages comedic farce A Flea in Her Ear
The play humorously draws parallels between issues of the ’60s (and the early 1900s) and today.
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Music by Moby, Patsy Cline and Frank Sinatra fill this eclectic, modern triple bill
Artistic Director Robert Mills has heard the same comment from patrons for seven years at Oklahoma City Ballet.
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Streetcar route could impact street parking
Members of the MAPS 3 streetcar subcommittee heard a presentation from engineers on Wednesday that outlined more details about the circular route, which could include altering street parking and constructing a one-block line that is seldom used.
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Walk this way
“Along with the trail system, [sidewalks] probably touch more neighborhoods and more parts of the city than any other MAPS 3 project,” Cornett said at a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday to mark the completion of phase 1 of the sidewalk project. “If you look at these sidewalks, I think they exceed expectations, which is continuing the […]
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Waste not
“We just didn’t have any recycling options out at the festival,” said Angela Cozby, the festival’s director. For the past six years, festival officials have worked to create a completely trash-free event. This year, that goal will be reached. “The carbon footprint at [the Festival of the Arts] is pretty large and negative, so we […]
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Growing pains
Some neighbors are also pushing back on two new restaurants planned for 23rd Street that they say could cause traffic issues on the residential streets close to the growing commercial district north of downtown. “We are all for responsible development, but we cannot live somewhere that [has] constant late-night noise and can’t take the loss […]
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Love Triangle?
From tragedy comes art, so Lyric Theatre presents the new musical Triangle at the Plaza Theatre, inspired by the disastrous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. The show’s creators — Curtis Moore (music), Thomas Mizer (lyrics) and Joshua Scher (book with Moore and Mizer) — also link the story tenuously to the World Trade Center attack of […]