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Alicia Chesser

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Heller Theatre Company Won’t Let Me Avoid Reality In Peace Tulsa

Heller Theatre Company Won’t Let Me Avoid Reality In Peace

How we deal with loss, two new plays suggest, shows us how we’re not dealing with ourselves and our relationships.

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Alicia Chesser
24 Mar 2025 · 5 min read
This One Goes Out To The Theatre Kids Tulsa

This One Goes Out To The Theatre Kids

[title of show] was a euphoric shot of musical theatre in its most concentrated and—for the theatre-kid adjacent—anyway, relatable form.

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Alicia Chesser
14 Mar 2025 · 4 min read
I Want To Live In This "Wonderland" Tulsa

I Want To Live In This "Wonderland"

Far from stripping the weirdness out of the story’s world (as I’m always afraid family-friendly productions like this will do), this Alice embraced it, found the fearsome beauty in it, and made me want more.

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Alicia Chesser
7 Mar 2025 · 5 min read
May Yang Is Speaking Tulsa

May Yang Is Speaking

In this robust and subtle solo show, a word becomes a situation, an environment, almost a dance.

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Alicia Chesser
14 Feb 2025 · 5 min read
At Home And Abroad With James Baldwin Tulsa

At Home And Abroad With James Baldwin

Three documentaries and a night of conversation.

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Alicia Chesser
28 Jan 2025 · 4 min read
Divas, Girls & Not Much Else Tulsa

Divas, Girls & Not Much Else

It probably did make some people talk, per the gallery's tagline, but about what?

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Alicia Chesser
5 Jan 2025 · 5 min read
Those Boys Really Were Back In Town Tulsa

Those Boys Really Were Back In Town

A night with Oklahoma songwriters John Moreland and John Fullbright.

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Alicia Chesser
4 Jan 2025 · 4 min read
Basement Vapes All Over

Basement Vapes

Gen Z and millennial critics weigh on on the new Bob Dylan biopic

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Multiple authors
1 Jan 2025 · 7 min read
'24 In Tulsa Tulsa

'24 In Tulsa

The year in art, music, food, theatre and other excellent oddities.

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Alicia Chesser
30 Dec 2024 · 4 min read
tulsa, museum, pop-up, curation, barbie Tulsa

My Job Is Just Museum-Goer

At the Vintage Barbie Museum Pop-Up, you too can reconnect with your childhood self—and with the many selves represented in the world of Barbie.

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Alicia Chesser
5 Dec 2024 · 5 min read
tulsa, art, visual art, indigenous, bipoc, women, 2-spirit Tulsa

Tradition As Transmission

What if we thought about traditions as active, living things—less like ossified forms and more like natural organisms?

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Alicia Chesser
17 Nov 2024 · 5 min read
tulsa, dance, ballet, vampires, dracula, tulsa ballet, houston ballet Tulsa

The Vampire Business Is Booming

Tulsa Ballet's "Dracula" plays it straight. But that cape is fabulous.

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Alicia Chesser
8 Nov 2024 · 5 min read
tulsa, music, experimental, west tulsa Tulsa

The Soothing Sounds Of Gonkulation

Ten bucks got me a whole night of creative laboratory action, a few new pals, and—as usual—a fresh appreciation for the mischievous, investigative, risk-taking chops of the friendly artists who gather around the One Aux cable.

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Alicia Chesser
25 Oct 2024 · 4 min read
Everything Fits Together For Creations In Studio K Tulsa

Everything Fits Together For Creations In Studio K

Tulsa Ballet: Creations In Studio K Tulsa Ballet Sept. 14, 2024 Blink and you’ll miss it: the moment when, at the end of one of the most irresistible duets

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Alicia Chesser
20 Sep 2024 · 5 min read
“Waitress” Cooks Tulsa

“Waitress” Cooks

Theatre Tulsa: “Waitress” Tulsa Performing Arts Center Tulsa Sept. 8, 2024 Fair warning: I’m going to exercise about as much restraint in my use of cooking-related metaphors in this

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Alicia Chesser
13 Sep 2024 · 4 min read
“Shorts” In The Round Thinks Outside The Box Tulsa

“Shorts” In The Round Thinks Outside The Box

Heller Shorts: Kick Off Your Shorts! Notion Coffee Tulsa Sept. 1, 2024 I went a bunch of places last Sunday afternoon: a backyard garden, a courtroom, a roadside diner with

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Alicia Chesser
6 Sep 2024 · 4 min read
Tulsa’s Vibrant, Homegrown ​“Fiddler” Has It All Tulsa

Tulsa’s Vibrant, Homegrown ​“Fiddler” Has It All

TPAC Produces: Fiddler On The Roof Tulsa Performing Arts Center Tulsa August 18, 2024 “I didn’t know Tulsa theatre could do that.” It’s a sentence I regularly hope

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Alicia Chesser
25 Aug 2024 · 6 min read
Living Memory Tulsa

Living Memory

“Living” Living Arts of Tulsa Tulsa Through Aug. 24, 2024 I’m not sure how, growing up in the Tulsa burbs, I got so obsessed with the fringes of art.

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Alicia Chesser
2 Aug 2024 · 6 min read
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