Best of OKC 2020: Arts, Culture & Entertainment
By Gazette staff
Tags: Best of Arts, Culture & Entertainment, My So Called Band, Nicnos, Superfreak, Uncle Zep, Weekend Allstars, Mike Hosty, Jabee, Kyle Dillingham & Horseshoe Road, Sophia Massad, The Dirty Little Betty’s, Joey and Heather, 98.9 KYIS, Lisa and Kent, 92.5 KOMA, Rick and Brad, 100.5 KATT, Shawn Carey, 96.1 KXY, TJ, Janet and JRod, 102.7 KJ103, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, Carpenter Square Theatre, Oklahoma City Ballet, Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Terre Rouge Burlesque, Greg Burns, David Bricquet, Denise Duong, Dylan Bradway, Jason Pawley, Festival of the Arts, Arts Council Oklahoma City, Heard on Hurd, Norman Music Festival, Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon, Paseo Arts Festival, Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon, Boots & Ball Gowns, Infant Crisis Services; Crown of Beauty Gala, The Dragonfly Home; Hero Awards, Oklahoma Humane Society; Red Tie Night, Paseo Arts Festival, Dust Bowl Dolls, Festival of the Arts, Heard on Hurd, Sonic Summer Movies, VZD’s Restaurant & Bar, 51st Street Speakeasy, Blue Note Lounge, JJ’s Alley Bricktown Pub, Saints, Chesapeake Energy Arena, The Criterion, The Jones Assembly, The Zoo Amphitheatre, Tower Theatre, Plaza Walls, Flamenco by Jonathan Hills, The Paseo Arts District; Life in the Light by Denise Duong, Film Row; New Zealand OKC Thunder player Steven Adams by Graham Hoete, Film Row; The OKC Ring, City Center, The Paseo Arts District, 16th Street Plaza District; Artspace at Untitled; DNA Galleries; Festival of the Arts, Arts Council Oklahoma City, DNA Galleries, Artspace at Untitled, Individual Artists of Oklahoma (IAO), JRB Art at the Elms, Little D Gallery, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum, Sam Noble Museum, Science Museum Oklahoma, 16th Street Plaza District, Bricktown, Midtown, The Paseo Arts District, Uptown 23rd District, Riverwind Casino, Grand Casino Hotel & Resort, Newcastle Casino, Remington Park Racing & Casino, WinStar World Casino and Resort, The Boom!, HiLo Club, Partners, The Copa, Tramps
PRESS RELEASE Oklahoma City Philharmonic to cancel remainder of 19-20 season
By press release
Tags: Arts, Oklahoma City Philharmonic, OKC Phil, Alexander Mickelthwate, COVID-19, coronavirus, Agnieszka Rakhmatullaev, The Chickasaw Nation, The Inasmuch Foundation, E.L. and Thelma Gaylord Foundation, The Skirvin Hilton, Mrs. Jane B. Harlow, Bank of Oklahoma, Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores, Dr. Steven C. Agee, Jane & Andy Evans, I Heart Media, season cancelled
PRESS RELEASE Lyric Theatre outlines future production schedule as a result of ongoing health climate
By press release
Tags: Arts, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, Lyric Theatre, Lyric at the Plaza, Civic Center Music Hall, Michael Baron, Distant Thunder, Head Over Heels, Matilda, Grease, Kinky Boots, A Christmas Carol, COVID-19, coronavirus
OKG Lifestyle: Donald Jordan
By Gazette staff
Tags: Community & Lifestyle, OKG Lifestyle, Donald Jordan, Coolgreens, The Good Place, Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Teacher Got Wrong, James W. Loewen, Bon Appétit’s Gourmet Makes, Bon Appétit, Gourmet Makes, Stockyards City, Iron Star, Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre, OKC Broadway, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, Oklahoma Shakespeare, Pollard Theatre Company, Carpenter Square Theatre, Painted Sky Opera, Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Canterbury Choral Society, The New York Times
Survivors’ guilt
Carpenter Square Theatre’s production of The Library finds cruelty and catharsis in the aftermath of a school shooting.
By Jeremy Martin
Tags: Arts, theater, Carpenter Square Theatre, The Library, John Kovaleskie, Ford Filson, Alexandra Shadid, Grant Brittan, Sara Byerly, Denise Hughes, Aiesha Watley, Cindy Barrios, Scott Z. Burns, Ben Brantley, Terry Veal, Rhonda Clark
Home cooking
Lyric Theatre’s Having Our Say reveals 20th-century America through the eyes of two centenarian sisters.
By Jeremy Martin
Tags: Arts, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, Lyric Theatre, Julia Lema, Terry Burrell, Monique Midgette, Having Our Say, Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years, Emily Mann, Amy Hill Hearth, theater
War requiem
Glory Denied, presented by Painted Sky Opera, is a complicated tragedy based on an actual prisoner of war.
By Jeremy Martin
Tags: Arts, theater, opera, Painted Sky Opera, Tom Cipullo, Glory Denied, Freede Little Theatre, Civic Center Music Hall, Jim Thompson, Green Beret, Vietnam, Alyce Thompson, Rob Glaubitz, Saira Frank, André Chiang, Veterans Affairs
American variations
Oklahoma City Philharmonic’s Minimalism in a New World celebrates a tradition of independent individualism.
By Jeremy Martin
Tags: Arts, Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Alexander Mickelthwate, Frank Zappa, Philip Glass, Antonín Dvořák, Minimalism in a New World, Civic Center Music Hall, Thelma Gaylord Performing Arts Theatre, National Conservatory of Music of America, Harry Burleigh, Will Marion Cook, Duke Ellington, Jennifer Koh, Einstein on the Beach
Bank notes
More local musicians tell us what they do for money, honey.
By Jeremy Martin
Tags: Music Features, musicians, Nicholas Ley, The Flaming Lips, Colormusic, The Brothers Griiin, Than Medlam, University of Central Oklahoma’s Academy of Contemporary Music, ACM@UCO, Wayne Coyne, Miley Cyrus, Jay Wilkinson, Oklahoma City Philharmonic, Boyd Street Brass, Oklahoma City Federation of Musicians, University of Oklahoma
Guide to the Holidays: Merry go-round
Oklahoma Gazette suggests 12 local holiday events to jingle your bells.
By Jeremy Martin
Tags: Community & Lifestyle, holiday events, 12 Bars of Christmas Crawl, Pretty Please Social Room, A Charlie Brown Christmas: Live on Stage, FireLake Arena, Christmas with the Crawfords, The Boom!, Deck the Hall With Buddy Holly, The Auditorium at The Douglass, Handel’s Messiah, Civic Center Music Hall, Canterbury Voices, Holiday Reindog Walk & Puppy Parade, Earlywine Park, It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, The Pollard Theatre, Pollard Theatre Company, Jane Austen’s Christmas Cracker, Oklahoma Shakespeare, Erin Woods, A Christmas Carol, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, Dirk Lumbard, The Nutcracker, Oklahoma City Ballet, Civic Center Music Hall, Opolis Holiday Program, Opolis, Samantha Crain, LABRYS, Beau Jennings, James Nghiem, Hip-Hop Nutcracker, RACE Dance Company, Hui Cha Poos
Curtain call
Jewel Box Theatre finishes a 62-season run in its current location with Little Old Ladies in Tennis Shoes.
By Jeremy Martin
Tags: Community & Lifestyle, Theatre, Theater, Arts & Culture, arts, culture, entertainment, Jewel Box Theatre, Deborah Franklin, Little Old Ladies in Tennis Shoes, Jewel Box, The Dixie Swim Club, Kate Corrigan, Denise Hughes, Chris Harris, Molly Blumenthal, The Star-Spangled Girl, First Christian Church, Darron Dunbar