Central Oklahoma professional, semipro, collegiate and amateur theater companies — along with touring shows and performance-art events — will stage nearly 100 productions this season. But rarely will the presentations be new plays and musicals. Why so few productions of new work? I surveyed artistic directors of six area theater companies and found them open […]
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Dear ‘Diaries’
The Santaland Diaries8 p.m. Wednesday Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre Civic Center Music Hall 201 N. Walker www.cityrep.com 297-2264 $8-$30 Tonight, Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre (CityRep) brings back its hit production of “The Santaland Diaries,” adapted for the stage from best-selling author David Sedaris’ essay. The sly, subversive, one-man, one-act play chronicles in inglorious detail his […]
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The year in theater
Oklahoma City theater hibernates from Christmas until about the ides of January, so as we turn our attention to bowl games and ringing in 2011 — which marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of playwright Thomas Lanier Williams, better known as Tennessee — let’s look back on some of the city’s more noteworthy dramatic […]