The University of Central Oklahoma’s Department of Design will present the projects of 14 interior design students in the exhibit Premises: Undergraduate Thesis Projects in Interior Design. The projects include a learning center for autistic children and their parents and a sustainable home for a family of four. Premises opens Thursday with a reception from […]
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Tim Tharp, award-winning author and Oklahoma native, will introduce the University of Central Oklahoma’s screening of the film The Spectacular Now, based on Tharp’s 2008 novel. The screening is part of the university’s Literature in Performance series. The film stars Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley and premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. The screening […]
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PERFORMING ARTS
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, to obtain his freedom all Pseudolus has to do is win the hand of a beautiful but slow witted courtesan, 8 p.m., Jan. 23-25; 2:30 p.m., Jan. 26. Jewel Box Theatre, 3700 N. Walker, 521-1786, jewelboxtheatre. org. THU–SUN MLK Gospel Fest, various community and college […]
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The University of Oklahoma will celebrate the 100th installment of its School of Art and Art History Student Exhibition, a competitive, juried show featuring a wide array of works created by current enrollees. The event will also offer a chance to reflect on the school and program’s history. The exhibition’s opening reception is 7 p.m. […]
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Distinguished professor and contemporary artist Michael Ray Charles from the University of Texas at Austin will judge the juried show and choose the recipient of the T.G. Mays Purchase Award. Each year, the university issues multiple cash prizes and chooses one student to receive the award and add his or her work to the permanent […]
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Urban education renewal
Maybe that’s because she’s a product of an urban district, or perhaps it’s because she sends all four of her children to OKC schools. Still, one part of her story is certain: After graduation later this month, she’ll be ready for that first teaching job at U.S. Grant High School thanks to the Urban Teacher […]
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The University of Central Oklahoma’s 12th annual holiday musical revue, titled Holidays at Home, features student vocalists from UCO’s Musical Theatre Division performing a variety of holiday-themed songs. See the performances 8 p.m. Thursday-Sunday, with encore performances Dec. 12-14, at the UCO Jazz Lab, 100 E. Fifth St. in Edmond. Tickets are $20. For more […]
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Alcoholidays, premiering at the Boom, this comedy follows Meg and Jacob as they make their way through the holiday, 6:30 p.m., Nov. 22-23. The Boom, 2218 NW 39th, 601-7200, theboomokc.com. FRI–SAT Coram Boy, the tale of two orphans at the Coram Hospital for Deserted Children., 8 p.m., Nov. 22-23; 3 p.m., Nov. 24. University of […]
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The University of Oklahoma presents Coram Boy, a play adapted by Helen Edmundson from the award-winning children’s novel. The production follows two orphans: Toby, saved from an African slave ship, and Aaron, the abandoned son of an heir to a great estate. The cast includes 50 students from the Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts. […]
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Killer Holiday / Murder University
Killer Holiday is so named because the killer’s name is Holiday (ha-ha?) and because for the aggravating eight college students passing for protagonists, it’s spring break, dude! So your Overweight Douche, your Frat Douche, your Party Girl, your Smart Girl and so on pile into an RV to get their kicks on Route 66, because […]