Music
Becky Carman
The Flaming Lips with Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band and more
8 p.m. Saturday-Sunday
Coca-Cola Bricktown Events Center
425 E. California
ticketstorm.com
866-966-1777
$100 per night, $150 both nights
Friday 24 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: Broadway
Ono? Oh, yes!
The Flaming Lips’ annual New Year’s Freakout sparks with changes: a new venue, two nights and special guest Yoko Ono.
Music
Becky Carman
The Flaming Lips with Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band and more
8 p.m. Saturday-Sunday
Coca-Cola Bricktown Events Center
425 E. California
ticketstorm.com
866-966-1777
$100 per night, $150 both nights
Parade this
Dance this
OKG7 things to do
Gazette staff
Hollywood to Broadway, Oklahoma City University’s American Spirit Dance Company brings tap, jazz, big band, Rat Pack and musical theater numbers to its “fastest-paced show of the year,” 8 p.m.
The Swell Season
Lightning strikes ‘Once.’
Documentary
Rod Lott
Remember how joyous you felt at the end of 2006's excellent Irish indie Once? Well, The Swell Season is why there is no sequel. Hell, it practically is the sequel, only factual instead of fictional.
Fest it
OKG7 things to do
Gazette staff
For Reduxion Theater Company, it just makes sense — and sensibility — to stage a three-day Jane Austen Festival, June 14-16, at its Broadway Theater, 1613 N. Broadway. On the schedule are a stage reading of Pride and Prejudice, bestselling author Linda Berdoll and more presentations and exhibitions than you can shake a Northanger Abbey at. Tickets are $10- $25. Call 651-3191 or visit reduxiontheatre.com.
Thursday-Saturday
See the IVC
Automobile Alley is home to a new hub for creativity with the opening of IVC Gallery.
Visual Arts
Sarah Lobban
Ian Vance Fuller spent six months of 2011 traveling through Europe, from Germany to France and Spain. The experience of hiking the mountains and the freedom of nature convinced him of one thing: He never wanted to work for anyone ever again.
Abducted to New York
A local playwright gets closer to Broadway with her new play 'The Abduction of Becky Morris.’
Performing Arts
Sarah Lobban
Most of us grew up hearing the inspirational mantra of “follow your dreams.”
Owens’ field
Local artist Romy Owens has earned a gig that’s literally high-profile: For the next year, her studio is streetside in the Skirvin Hilton.
Visual Arts
Shelly Hickman
In its storied, 101-year history, the Skirvin Hilton Hotel has accommodated some of the most influential people in the world, but no one until now — other than its legendary ghost, Effie, of course — stays for an entire year.
Little Shop of Horrors: The Director's Cut
Now with 100 percent more major metropolitan area destruction!
Comedy
Rod Lott
How long has it been since you've seen 1986's Little Shop of Horrors, the Oscar-nominated musical comedy produced by Steven Spielberg and directed by Martin Scorsese? No, I haven't erred; according to producer David Geffen in a half-hour special on this definitive Blu-ray edition, those Hollywood heavyweights were part of his original plan.
