Tulsa Jazz Raises Monday Nights From The Dead I am a jazz simpleton. Everything about a live jazz performance is as astonishing to me as a no-look pass (and I am probably even worse at playing basketball than Becky Carman 6 Sep 2023 · 2 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 Branjae Manifests The Vibe When I think of Tulsa’s Branjae, I think of discipline, performance, energy. “Who’s a manifester?” she asked us, the sometimes awkward but incredibly enthusiastic crowd at Thelma’s Cassidy McCants 31 Aug 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa Femme And Queer Oklahomans Raise Voices In Group Show In April, The Oklahoman reported that Oklahoma ranked lowest in gender equity nationally. Additionally, Equaldex ’s 2023 Equality Index placed the state at #47 for LGBTQ+ rights. These metrics, along Jenny Wu 30 Aug 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa Hannah Dasher’s Country Rock Is Large And In Charge If you like country music and haven’t heard of Hannah Dasher, I’d bet some honey-buttered biscuits on that fixing to change. Seeing is believing, and I bore witness Mitch Gilliam 25 Aug 2023 · 2 min read
Tulsa Honky Tonk Hero Serves Up Country Crooning If you have, as Junior Brown sang, spent “too many nights in a roadhouse,” you can now get your fill of country music and cold drinks during daylight hours on Becky Carman 23 Aug 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa Taking Art To The Moon And Back Linda Lopez & Mathew McConnell: Live from the Moon Aug. 4 — Sept. 24, 2023 108|Contemporary On Christmas Eve in 1968, three American astronauts aboard the spacecraft Apollo 8 became Jenny Wu 22 Aug 2023 · 3 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 Emcees on Main: Tulsa Veterans & Rookies Mix It Up For Hip Hop’s 50th Culture Over Everything Presents: Happy Birthday To H.E.R. Aug. 11, 2023 Soundpony “You never thought that hip-hop would take it this far.” This iconic line from The Notorious Ryan Anderson 16 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
Tulsa Get Your Brass On The Ground! King Cabbage Twerks in Merc Church King Cabbage Brass Band August 5, 2023 Mercury Lounge There’s a sign onstage at Mercury Lounge threatening anyone who performs more than three cover songs with removal. Like most Becky Carman 11 Aug 2023 · 2 min read
Tulsa Tap Dancing On The Edge Of The Earnest: Self-Aware Pop Rocker Nicholas Foster Finds His Stride Winston Churchbus & Silo Trees July 26, 2023 Mercury Lounge Forgive my bias, as I’m a drummer myself, but here’s a claim: Rhythm is the backbone of musical Z.B. Reeves 9 Aug 2023 · 2 min read
Tulsa Prophets of Doom: Tulsa Metal Chronicles Malignant Modernity Medicine Horse + Slumbering Sun + Surus July 26, 2023 Soundpony It is fitting for a state ranked 50th in education to become a bastion of doom. Not just the “fear of Mitch Gilliam 8 Aug 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa The Pitriarchy Persists: Feminist Critique Propels Performance Art Dance Party Google the name “Pitriarchy,” and you’ll get an instant question back: “Did you mean patriarchy?” Would I have rolled my eyes quite as hard at that had I not Alicia Chesser 3 Aug 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa Dialtone Picks Up The Mic, Taps Into Everyday Tulsa Frequency: “No Club“ Atento Capital July 22, 2023 It’s hard to imagine the day Dialtone picked up a mic. Maybe it was in middle school during lunch break. Maybe Ryan Anderson 31 Jul 2023 · 4 min read
Tulsa The Way We Are, Post-Pandemic Phantom Limb: Mixed Media Works by Zach Litwack July 14-August 4, 2023 Liggett Studio Who are you when you lose part of what makes you “you”? Zach Litwack started asking Alicia Chesser 27 Jul 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa 3 Mad Scientists Of Sound Bend The Universe DABNAP + Pete Tomshany Thelma’s Peach July 15, 2023 Like mystery greens creeping up through the cracks in the concrete, experimental music is emerging as one of the most exciting, Alicia Chesser 24 Jul 2023 · 4 min read
Tulsa The Challenge Of Change: American Theatre Company Wrestles With Religion American Theatre Company: The Christians July 13 – 17, 2023 Studio 308 Tulsa, OK If you think the question of whether or not there’s a hell is a tricky one Alicia Chesser 20 Jul 2023 · 3 min read
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