Tulsa In “A Relentless Pursuit,” Freedom Of Expression Is Not A Given William Livingston’s posters, produced in prison, point to more than the concerts they advertise. Z.B. Reeves 17 Jun 2025 · 3 min read
Tulsa I Take Very Seriously This Review Of Grade Schoolers Performing “The Hobbit” As An Opera Tulsa Youth Opera’s version was quick, easy, and fun—something I’d return to and watch again, unlike the movies. Z.B. Reeves 11 Jun 2025 · 4 min read
Tulsa Wicked Is Everything You've Heard It Is I didn't think it was going to be that good. I was wrong. Z.B. Reeves 9 Jun 2025 · 3 min read
Tulsa I Was Wrong About Dvořák Tulsa Opera brought suffering to the listeners—and that’s a good thing. Z.B. Reeves 2 May 2025 · 3 min read
Tulsa "SAMURAI" Was Made For Me Personally Philbrook is at its best when it engages playful and academic sides simultaneously, something this exhibition does extraordinarily well. Z.B. Reeves 12 Mar 2025 · 4 min read
Tulsa I Failed To Consider The Lilies Their largeness and pleasingness are just about the only things you can say about them. Z.B. Reeves 7 Mar 2025 · 4 min read
Tulsa The Opera Shouldn't Get Me This Riled Up! Tulsa Opera’s performance of The Tragedy of Carmen was tight, taut, and only a little confusing. Z.B. Reeves 5 Mar 2025 · 2 min read
Tulsa The Cathedral Crawl Won Me Over The high, powerful voices catapulting off of the vaulted ceilings and stained glass exemplified exactly what the tour was meant to convey: spiritual grandeur. Z.B. Reeves 21 Feb 2025 · 4 min read
Tulsa "Clue: On Stage" Can’t Decide How Reverential It Wants To Be Technical precision and tight physical comedy can't save a spiritually awkward script. Z.B. Reeves 20 Feb 2025 · 4 min read
Tulsa Today In Inexplicable Contraptions “Doug Cannell: Backstories,” 108|Contemporary's current show, is a perfect instance of everything this place is getting right. Z.B. Reeves 14 Feb 2025 · 4 min read
Tulsa You Can’t Have Tenacity Without Triangles or Timpani The concert was subtle, until it was exciting, until it was hard as hell, in a good way. Z.B. Reeves 16 Jan 2025 · 2 min read
Tulsa Gabriel Royal Had Me at “Cello” On his main instrument, Royal channels a fusion of Andrew Bird and John Legend: a cool, laid-back, even sensuous sensibility blended with a sense of presence and technicality. Z.B. Reeves 6 Dec 2024 · 2 min read
Tulsa There Was Very Little Día de Los Muertos at the Día de Los Muertos Pickleball Tournament If we’re fortunate, the ancestors might still look down and smile. Z.B. Reeves 8 Nov 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa The Founder of Sand Springs Might Have Been a Real Weirdo (Or Worse) Russell Cobb’s newest history, Ghosts of Crook County, traces the life—and the alleged fraud—of Charles Page, that scion of Sand Springs, Oklahoma, whose name graces a statue and street signs along the Arkansas River. Z.B. Reeves 25 Oct 2024 · 2 min read
Tulsa It Don’t Mean A Thing If It Ain’t Got That Dang Clarinet! The Austin-based Miró Quartet, along with clarinetist David Shifrin, delivered a show that was by turns technically thrilling, culturally edifying, emotionally satisfying, and—wouldn’t you know it—swinging. Z.B. Reeves 24 Oct 2024 · 2 min read
Tulsa Philbrook’s New Show Gets Much Of America Right When people talk about being American, they’re inevitably talking about the flavor of American that they themselves are. Being an American is different for the recently-arrived Hmong mother of two than it is for the white suburban housewife whose British ancestors colonized Native land. Z.B. Reeves 18 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa Talking Shop with Jad Abumrad The Lorton Performance Center’s 635 seats were all full as the former host of WNYC’s RadioLab took the stage as part of TU’s Presidential Lecture Series. Z.B. Reeves 13 Oct 2024 · 3 min read
Tulsa Reggie Watts Isn’t Going To Get To The Point Reggie Watts, With Openers Casey Rocket, Simon Fraser, Cepeda Cheeks and Val Werner Blue Whale Comedy Festival Cain’s Ballroom Tulsa August 24, 2024 Reggie Watts tickled me first through Z.B. Reeves 3 Sep 2024 · 2 min read
