Radney Foster 8 p.m. May 16-17 The Blue Door 2805 N. McKinley Ave. bluedoorokc.com 405-524-0738 $35-$40 Radney Foster, one of the most lively Nashville-based songwriters in a city full of them, was wide awake at 9:30 a.m. for a phone interview with Oklahoma Gazette, far earlier than the interview times scheduled by most other night-dwelling […]
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Jewel Box Theatre’s Bus Stop takes an amusing look at relationships
The play was written by Pulitzer Prize winner William Inge.
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Let’s Talk About It, Oklahoma book series takes on civil rights and equality
All of the books in the series are Pulitzer winners or nominees.
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Reduxion Theatre Company closes out season with a scorcher
Oklahomans are sure to relate to Reduxion Theatre Company’s production of Tennessee Williams’ classic Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
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Chicken-Fried News: Media buzz
Four Tulsa World employees resigned amidst rumors and joined the new online publication The Frontier.
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A Pulitzer Prizewinning author makes two stops in the metro
Pulitzer Prizewinner Michael Chabon visits Shawnee and Norman to support The National Endowment for the Arts’ The Big Read program.
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Honoring Shadid
The Beirut bureau chief for The New York Times, Shadid was 43 when he died of a severe asthma attack. Robert Ford, the U.S. Ambassador to Syria, will conduct the service, which will begin at 2 p.m. Saturday at Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker. Shadid earned two Pulitzers for his coverage of the […]
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House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
The loss was as unexpected as it was tragic. Shadid, born and raised here, was a true savant: a fluent speaker of Arabic whose ambition for storytelling heeded few warnings of danger. He caught a sniper’s bullet with his shoulder in the West Bank in 2002 and survived a well-publicized kidnapping in Libya last spring, […]
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Know ‘Doubt’
Can you ever truly know a person? That is the question pressed in a new production of John Patrick Shanley’s “Doubt,” winner of both a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award. Shanley adapted his play into the 2008 Oscar-nominated film starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis. The stage production takes […]
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‘A little bit unreal’
As a fellow reporter, Said al-Ghazali, struggled to help him, Shadid wrote later in the Columbia Journalism Review that his thoughts flew to his wife and daughter, and of how useless words are when facing what could be one’s final moment. “In the anarchy of emotions and impulses that ensued, I could only come up […]