http://www.tulsaworld.comThe latest news and information from the Tulsa World.5Copyright 2013, World Publishing Co. All rights reserved.This has not, by any standard, been a good week for far too many people. We've been horrifically reminded how fragile people and things are in the face of nature. We wept, we have tried to ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/So_maybe_tonight_you_need_to_laugh/20504?subj=34Fri, 24 May 2013 13:03:38 CDTCelebrity Attractions announced that Disney Theatricals will donate a portion of this week's ticket sales to the Tulsa run of 'The Lion King' to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief. Kristin ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Lion_King_to_donate_to_OK_disaster_relief/20445?subj=34Tue, 21 May 2013 17:19:56 CDTTulsa native Tracy Letts won the Outstanding Actor in a Play at the 58th annual Drama Desk Awards, presented Sunday night in New York City, for his performance as George in Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Letts_Pippin_win_at_Drama_Desk_Awards/20418?subj=34Mon, 20 May 2013 12:14:11 CDTA great many things must work together properly for an airplane is ever going to leave the ground. The same thing is true — if on a slightly smaller scale — about the theatrical genre known ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/REVIEW_Boeing_Boeing_by_Theatre_Tulsa/20306?subj=34Sat, 11 May 2013 17:34:10 CDTTulsa Ballet’s “Off the Floor: Creations in Studio K” continues through this weekend at the company’s headquarters, 1212 E. 45th St. And while the three featured works on the program – Ma Cong’s ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Local_dance_groups_get_Off_the_Floor/20250?subj=34Wed, 08 May 2013 11:33:24 CDTAs far as the Tulsa Artists Coalition is concerned, today is May 5. The TAC has traditionally opened its most popular event -- the annual '5x5' show, featuring original works by local artist ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Tulsa_Artists_Coalition_5x5_opens_today/20173?subj=34Fri, 03 May 2013 12:08:00 CDTAdmit it -- for most of gringos, Cinco de Mayo is merely an excuse to drink a great many margaritas and south-of-the-border beers, and shout 'Ole!' at all and sundry. However, if you'd like ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Bring_a_little_class_to_Cinco_de_Mayo/20149?subj=34Thu, 02 May 2013 08:33:17 CDTTwo Tulsa actors will be performing in the inaugural event at the 32nd annual William Inge Theatre Festival, held in Independence, Ks. The festival is presenting a fully staged production of ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Tulsa_actors_in_William_Inge_Festival/20120?subj=34Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:04:55 CDTTulsa native Tracy Letts is one of the nominees for the 2013 Tony Awards. Letts is up for best performance by an actor in a play for his performance as George in Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Tracy_Letts_nominated_for_2013_Tony_Award/20101?subj=34Tue, 30 Apr 2013 08:00:00 CDTChoreographer Bill T. Jones’ work spans four decades, from the first duet he and his late partner Arnie Zane created in 1973. In that time, Jones has gained fame as one of this country’s most ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Bill_T_Jones_Bring_the_doubters/20040?subj=34Fri, 26 Apr 2013 10:37:54 CDTEntries in our recent contest to give away tickets to the opening of 'West Side Story,' presented by Celebrity Attractions, rose all the way to the 20s, but out of all those contestants, only one person ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/West_Side_Story_contestWe_have_a_winner/19987?subj=34Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:40:40 CDTThe Tulsa World and Celebrity Attractions are giving away an Opening Night Prize Package to 'West Side Story,' which Celebrity Attractions is bringing to Tulsa for eight performances April 30 to May 5....http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/DAY_THREE_Win_tickets_to_West_Side_Story/19955?subj=34Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:00:00 CDTThe Tulsa World and Celebrity Attractions are giving away an Opening Night Prize Package to 'West Side Story,' which Celebrity Attractions is bringing to Tulsa for eight performances April 30 to May 5....http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/FINAL_DAY_Win_Tickets_to_West_Side_Story/19959?subj=34Sun, 21 Apr 2013 07:38:48 CDTThe Tulsa World and Celebrity Attractions are giving away an Opening Night Prize Package to 'West Side Story,' which Celebrity Attractions is bringing to Tulsa for eight performances April 30 to May 5....http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/DAY_TWO_Win_tickets_to_West_Side_Story/19936?subj=34Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:00:00 CDTThe Tulsa World and Celebrity Attractions are giving away an Opening Night Prize Package to 'West Side Story,' which Celebrity Attractions is bringing to Tulsa for eight performances April 30 to May 5....http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/DAY_1_Win_Tickets_to_West_Side_Story/19921?subj=34Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 CDTThe latest revival of the classic musical 'West Side Story' comes to Tulsa for an eight-performance run, April 30-May 5. Celebrity Attractions, which is presenting the official Broadway touring production ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Win_a_West_Side_Story_Opening_Night_Prize_Package/19919?subj=34Wed, 17 Apr 2013 23:10:46 CDTTulsa native Benjamin Lytal's debut novel, 'A Map of Tulsa,' which we wrote about last month when ti debuted at a BookSmart Tulsa event, is getting major attention from national reviewers, including a ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/A_Map_of_Tulsa_keeps_getting_unfolded/19910?subj=34Wed, 17 Apr 2013 13:02:51 CDTFor a couple of weeks this June, Shakespeare will be in the air all over Tulsa, as two local theater companies will present outdoor productions of two of Shakespeare’s comedies. The American ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Brush_up_your_Shakespeare/19770?subj=34Sat, 06 Apr 2013 10:31:09 CDTAs the possessor of Y chromosomes, I may be setting myself up for all kinds of trouble in saying this, but – “Love, Loss and What I Wore” is a quintessential girls’ night out. It’s an evening ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/REVIEW_Love_Loss_and_What_I_Wore_by_Theatre_Pops/19766?subj=34Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:16:53 CDTKathryn Stockett, whose best-selling novel 'The Help' became an Academy Award-winning film, will be the featured author for the Spring 2014 Tulsa Reads. Stockett will be presented with the Homecoming ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/The_Help_novelist_coming_to_Tulsa/19754?subj=34Fri, 05 Apr 2013 12:05:26 CDTShane Jewell, who has served as executive director of the OK Mozart International Festival in Bartlesville since 2009, is leaving the organization to take a similar position with the Oklahoma City Ballet....http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/OK_Mozart_executive_director_resigns/19692?subj=34Mon, 01 Apr 2013 16:21:16 CDTThree of the city’s theater companies – Theatre Tulsa, Odeum Theatre Company and Theatre Pops – will collaborate to present a staged reading of the play “8,” about the trial to overturn California’s Proposition ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Theater_groups_join_forces_to_present_8/19617?subj=34Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:19:08 CDT'Wahzhazhe: An Osage Ballet,' a ballet choreographed by Jenna Smith to a score by Lou Brock and Joseph Rivers, is being performed this weekend at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Wahzhazhe_An_Osage_Ballet_streams_live_from_DC/19579?subj=34Sat, 23 Mar 2013 12:29:42 CDTBaritone Sherrill Milnes, one of the most enduring and acclaimed American opera stars, will conduct a masterclass for young professional singers, 2 p.m. Sunday in the Meinig Recital Hall of the Lorton ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Sherrill_Milnes_masterclass_on_Sunday/19563?subj=34Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:43:28 CDTI do not in any way wish to cast aspersions upon the highly distinguished panel of my colleagues who contribute so prolifically and enthusiastically to the Tulsa World’s “Prairie Nerds” blog. ...http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/The_true_universal_food/19554?subj=34Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:58:00 CDTThe Quartetto di Cremona has established itself over the past dozen or so years as one of Italy’s top chamber music ensembles, performing throughout their homeland as well as in Europe, Asia and Australia....http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/REVIEW_Quartetto_di_Cremona/19507?subj=34Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:35:25 CDTMuch has been made of the fact that three of Tulsa Ballet's leading dancers will be leaving the company at the conclusion of this season. It is true that the distinctive personalities and individual ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/REVIEW_Tulsa_Ballets_Balanchine_and_Beyond/19492?subj=34Sat, 16 Mar 2013 16:54:59 CDTThe Washington Post, in advance of a weekend in which five major dance companies will be performing in our nation's capital, published a primer on ballet, debunking many of the misconceptions people have ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Ballet_101_or_Real_Men_Can_Enjoy_Ballet/19481?subj=34Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:11:40 CDTTulsa Opera may be between its major productions, but the company is by no means idle. This Saturday, the company will present the latest in its 'Opera Underground' program, in which singers ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Tulsa_Opera_goes_Underground/19479?subj=34Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:24:29 CDTTerrence Malick, the Bartlesville native whose films include 'The Tree of Life,' 'Days of Heaven,' 'The Thin Red Line' and the forthcoming 'To the Wonder,' will be the first guest curator for the Philbrook ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Terence_Malick_to_curate_Philbrook_film_series/19460?subj=34Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:10:25 CDTIf you hadn't yet decided about attending the Tulsa Oratorio Chorus' concert this Saturday, it's too late. The concert -- designed to celebrate both the chorus' 20th anniversary as well as 'Great ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Tulsa_Oratorio_Chorus_concert_sold_out/19388?subj=34Fri, 08 Mar 2013 11:03:54 CDTIf the current tour of “Peter Pan” is to be last time for Cathy Rigby to lead a bunch of people to Neverland, then she’s obviously determined to make that journey one wild ride. Tuesday’s opening ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/REVIEW_Peter_Pan/19363?subj=34Wed, 06 Mar 2013 12:49:42 CDT“The Pitch That Killed,” Oklahoma author Mike Sowell’s account of the only such on-field fatality in baseball history, may become a motion picture. A company called Come Aboard Productions has ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/OSU_professors_baseball_book_optioned_for_film/19328?subj=34Mon, 04 Mar 2013 17:58:00 CDTRobert Caro, who spoke at the University of Tulsa last month as part of its Presidential Lecture series, won his third National Book Critics Circle Award for the fourth volume of his 'The Years of Lyndon ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Caros_latest_LBJ_volume_wins_award/19318?subj=34Mon, 04 Mar 2013 11:52:58 CDTTulsa Project Theatre’s “Hairspray” is about as silly as the name of the latest dance sensation that is sweeping the nation, as hyperactive as a toddler hopped up on soda pop and Snickers bars, and as ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/REVIEW_Hairspray_by_Tulsa_Project_Theatre/19304?subj=34Sun, 03 Mar 2013 15:47:08 CDTFor the Depression-era realism of his settings, and the plainspoken earthiness of his characters, John Steinbeck was essentially a fabulist. His best-known stories, such as “Of Mice and Men,” ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/REVIEW_Of_Mice_and_Men_by_American_Theatre_Company/19303?subj=34Sat, 02 Mar 2013 20:54:35 CDTThis is quite a busy weekend in local theatre, with seven different shows either opening or concluding their runs. For those interested in the Tulsa Awards for Theatre Excellence, three shows ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/The_plays_and_the_musicals_are_the_thing_this_weekend/19286?subj=34Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:12:54 CDTI never had the chance to hear Van Cliburn in concert. He performed in Oklahoma several times in his career – one of his first concerts after winning the first International Tchaikovsky Competition ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Van_Cliburn_on_classical_music/19252?subj=34Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:38:06 CDTFuneral services for Larry Payton, founder of Tulsa’s Celebrity Attractions, will be held 2 p.m. Saturday at the First Baptist Church, 403 S. Cincinnati Ave. Payton, 64, who died Monday at St. ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Funeral_services_for_Larry_Payton/19174?subj=34Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:25:02 CDTA glance at the list of characters in any printed version of Shakespeare’s “Othello” lists 13 speaking parts along with the unnumbered, and generally silent, “senators, sailors, heralds and attendants” ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/REVIEW_Othello_by_Playhouse_Tulsa/19078?subj=34Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:28:17 CDTIt’s not often that an orchestra does reruns. However, the concert that the Signature Symphony created in honor of the Oklahoma centennial made such an impression when it debuted in 2006, that the ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/REVIEW_100_Years_of_Oklahoma_Music/18974?subj=34Sat, 09 Feb 2013 13:44:32 CDTThe cast of Playhouse Tulsa’s production of “Barefoot in the Park” performs this Neil Simon play as if they aren’t expecting the audience to laugh. Of course, the audience does laugh — those ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/REVIEW_Barefoot_in_the_Park/18969?subj=34Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:11:31 CDTTulsa artist Grace Grothaus will be conducting a walk on the arty side this Sunday to give participants a better understanding of “Re(View) in Situ,” her installation now on display as part of the “Concept/OK” ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Reality_What_a_ConceptOK/18927?subj=34Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:14:13 CDT'Bloody thou art, bloody will be thy end; Shame serves thy life and doth thy death attend.” -- Duchess of York in 'Richard III,' William Shakespeare Shakespeare's portrait of ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/The_king_was_in_the_parking_lot/18855?subj=34Mon, 04 Feb 2013 11:55:30 CDTIt’s been a decade since Tulsa Ballet last presented Val Caniparoli’s “Lady of the Camellias.” but Friday’s opening night performance at the Tulsa PAC was more than worth the wait. “Lady of ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/REVIEW_Lady_of_the_Camellias_by_Tulsa_Ballet/18841?subj=34Sat, 02 Feb 2013 14:52:47 CDT“House of Earth,” a novel Woody Guthrie finished in 1947 but never published, will be released Feb. 5. It’s the first book to be published by Infinitum Nihil, an imprint of Harper Collins. Actor ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Guthrie_novel_House_of_Earth_to_be_published_Feb_5/18828?subj=34Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:47:00 CDTIt was 200 years ago today that people first discovered that it was a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. Jane Austen’s ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Happy_birthday_Elizabeth_Bennet/18738?subj=34Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:07:00 CDTThe Signature Symphony may have only spent one half of Saturday evening’s concert “In the Land of Chopin,” but taken as a whole, this concert was one of the orchestra’s most successful of the season....http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/REVIEW_In_the_Land_of_Chopin_by_the_Signature_Symphony/18730?subj=34Sun, 27 Jan 2013 13:13:04 CDTThere is a scene in “Time Stands Still,” the Donald Margulies play that Heller Theatre opened Friday night at the Henthorne PAC, in which Sarah, a photojournalist, describes the sensation of taking a picture ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/REVIEW_Time_Stands_Still_at_Heller_Theatre/18725?subj=34Sat, 26 Jan 2013 17:31:34 CDTTwo of Tulsa’s classical music organizations will offer special events Saturday that will combine fine coffee with words and music. Chamber Music Tulsa will present the latest in its series ......http://www.tulsaworld.com/blogs/post.aspx/Words_and_music_with_a_side_of_coffee/18687?subj=34Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:53:58 CDT