Tulsa Oklahoma Stories Brought Out Of The Shadows Live Lit Night Heirloom Rustic Ales Tulsa Jan. 25, 2024 If, like me, you sometimes harbor romantic fantasies about literary experiences that happen in dark, gritty, hole-in-the-wall venues (probably with Alicia Chesser 9 Feb 2024 · 4 min read
Tulsa Monumental Dreamspace Monument Valley Living Arts of Tulsa Through Jan. 20 As a solo viewer walking into Living Arts on a quiet weekday afternoon, I had a very different experience of Monument Alicia Chesser 16 Jan 2024 · 4 min read
Tulsa Making Voices Visible Invisible Voices Positive Space Tulsa Tulsa Through Jan. 27 Not many things around here move me as much as a packed house at an art show opening. When the community Alicia Chesser 11 Jan 2024 · 4 min read
Tulsa Craft Elbows The State of Craft 108|Contemporary Tulsa Through Jan. 21 Threads, grain, skeins, ripples: these are the textures that connect us, and no art modality lets us see them better Alicia Chesser 7 Jan 2024 · 5 min read
Tulsa A Slower Kind Of Knowing Darren Dirksen: November Grass Joseph Gierek Fine Art Tulsa Through Dec. 9 In the introduction to her “Best Music of 2023” list, the New Yorker music critic Amanda Petrusich wrote Alicia Chesser 6 Dec 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa Keep The Channel Open: New Performance Art Goes All The Way Trueson Daugherty: “Disruptive Force” Logan Miller Studio Tulsa Nov. 25, 2023 Any time someone gets onstage or puts a brush to canvas, they’re pouring out their life force for Alicia Chesser 1 Dec 2023 · 4 min read
Tulsa Mural: The Cosmic Dance of Thiccfoot and the Gayliens Mural: The Cosmic Dance of Thiccfoot and the Gayliens Artists: Jamie Pierson (@scraps_designs) and Erin Baird (@erin.bread) Location: Pearl District, Tulsa, Oklahoma What it shows: A view of Alicia Chesser 22 Nov 2023 · 1 min read
Tulsa Relentless Absurdity On the Oregon Trail The Trail To Oregon! Theatre Tulsa Studios Tulsa Nov. 2, 2023 I didn’t actually mean to see all the theatre productions happening in Tulsa in the past three weeks. Alicia Chesser 9 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
Tulsa Weird Sisters To The Fore In Gender-Experimental Macbeth Macbeth Pembroke Players The Broadway 720 S. Kenosha Ave., Tulsa Closed There’s nobody in Tulsa — and I’m including the likes of King Cabbage in that — who knows how Alicia Chesser 7 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
Tulsa The Past Is Present: Tulsa Massacre Inspires Stage “Reflections” Reflections World Stage Theatre Company Tulsa Performing Arts Center Oct. 26, 2023 Over a hundred years later, the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre continues to impact this city’s community life. Alicia Chesser 3 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
Tulsa Scared Shortless At Hellerween Hellerween: Shorts To Scare You Shortsless 101 Archer Tulsa Oct. 28, 2023 It was, for real, a dark and stormy night when I hiked through the cold to Hellerween. For Alicia Chesser 1 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
Tulsa The Future, Now: Ballet Finds New Frontiers Creations in Studio K Tulsa Ballet Studio K Sept. 24, 2023 Like a great run for a goal in a soccer game or an unbelievable series of bars from a Alicia Chesser 2 Oct 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa Challenging Appropriation From A Tiny World Stage The Chinese Lady September 10, 2023 World Stage Theatre Company You wouldn’t know it to look at the space from the street, but in a tiny studio on the Alicia Chesser 15 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa “We’re Gonna Stay” Women and non-binary muralists make their mark Sunny Dayz Mural Festival Sept. 9, 2023 Pearl District “You know when you’re an Okie and you’re trans and you think, Alicia Chesser 12 Sep 2023 · 4 min read
Tulsa Black Moonscapes Deliver First Friday Hope, Not Hype “Moonscapes & Earthshine” + TAF First Friday Programming September 1, 2023 TAF Studio 101 / Archer Studios As someone who tends to lose hours of my one wild and precious life to Alicia Chesser 8 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa “Drown Or Swim” New play recasts Oedipus's mother as a dancer navigating the modern age. What stories does the body tell? As we learn more about how our cells carry the Alicia Chesser 5 Sep 2023 · 4 min read
Tulsa The Lucky Find In The Dumpster Fire: Hot Messes Tackle Hot Topics At Tulsa Story Slam “OK, So” Story Slam: Hot Mess Aug. 11, 2023 Living Arts of Tulsa The literary theorist Roland Barthes believed it was a photographer’s job to “shock” — in other words, Alicia Chesser 17 Aug 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa We’re Off To See The Whizzer: Tulsa Theatre Ensemble Hits High Note in Falsettos Falsettos Aug. 11, 2023 Lynn Riggs Black Box Theater “Happy or sad? That’s a question with no answer.” Those early lines in Falsettos, the 1992 musical by William Finn Alicia Chesser 15 Aug 2023 · 3 min read
