by Patrick B. McGuigan Associate Publisher Jonathan Beck Reed and Donald Laurel Jordan soar in the three week run of “Greater Tuna,” the comedy by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears and Ed Howard. Their performances conclude this weekend. Between the two of them – cooperating brilliantly in their 42nd joint venture in a career spanning the [...]
by Patrick B. McGuigan Associate Publisher OKLAHOMA CITY — Credit Bobbie Burbridge Lane for the vision of “Oklahoma Senior Follies,” which she has brought to joyful life the past three years. This year as “Follies King” she brings on-stage another local icon, publisher Leland Gourley of the Friday newspaper. The Lynda Tarpley Dancers and Generations [...]
Summerstock Productions will present the beloved Rodgers & Hammerstein classic “The Sound of Music” at UCO’s Mitchell Hall Theater June 14-16 & 21-23. Performances are Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m.; Saturdays & Sundays at 2 p.m. Tickets range from $15 to $20 per person. Featured in the production (from left to right) are Dia [...]
by Patrick B. McGuigan Associate Publisher The deadCENTER Film Festival completed its thirteenth annual run in Oklahoma City last weekend. Among the motion picture “shorts” this writer absorbed, the personal favorite was “Going Dark: The Final Days of Film Projection.” The project from Jason Gwynn and Jay Sheldon made its world premiere at the downtown [...]
By Patrick B. McGuigan Associate Publisher The annual Brightmusic Festival featured “Schubert and Friends” over the course of four lively and enjoyable performances in the worship space at two Oklahoma City churches. The finale, a memorial concert honoring the late Mae Ruth Swanson, was all-Franz Schubert. That evening of fine music began with Schubert’s “Rondeau [...]
by Patrick B. McGuigan Associate Publisher Two icons of the Oklahoma City theater scene will mark a notable benchmark in the next few weeks. For the 42nd time in theatrical careers spanning five decades each, Jonathan Beck Reed and Donald L. Jordan are working together. Their collaborations began in the late 1970s in “My Three [...]
Staff Report Stephen Sondheim’s Tony-winning musical “Into the Woods” will make its Oklahoma City University debut April 26 through 28. Performances are 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, with a 3 p.m. Sunday matinee on the historic Kirkpatrick stage of OCU’s Bass School of Music. Tickets ($12-25) are available from www.okcu.edu/tickets or (405) 208-5227. There will [...]
By Darla Shelden Contributing Writer Downtown Film Row entrepreneurs will welcome the public from 6 – 9 p.m., on Friday, April 26 for the premier of Oklahoma City’s new Final Friday event. Beginning in April, on the Final Friday of each month, the Historic Film Row District will host an art walk. The newly restored [...]
Staff Report Jamie Bernstein, a writer, arts advocate and daughter of composer Leonard Bernstein, will be the keynote speaker at Oklahoma City University’s “Music Transforms” symposium April 13 that will introduce the renowned Venezuelan music-education program El Sistema to Oklahoma. Bernstein’s keynote speech begins at 10:30 a.m. in the atrium of the Bass School of [...]
Staff Report Oklahoma City’s own Brightmusic Chamber Ensemble will present two performances of the fifth concert of its 10th anniversary season, “Bright Tales,” April 22-23, organizers said. The program features virtuoso works by the Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály, the German composer Carl Maria von Weber, and the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The works on [...]
