Show ’nuff!

Theater season gets into full swing; here's your print-and-save preview.

Performing Arts
Gazette staff
Autumn means a hot new theatrical lineup! Here’s an at-glance guide for the 2012-13 season.

 

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Prop 8 gets dramatic

A play about marriage equality for all comes to Oklahoma for a one-night-only reading.

Performing Arts
Eric Webb
8
7 p.m. Sunday
Oklahoma Theatre Guild
Freede Theatre, Civic Center Music Hall
201 N. Walker Ave.
8inok.org
397-7689
Free

 

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

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.

 

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Knight watch

Batman soars into Oklahoma City to deliver a little BAM! POW! OOF! in an action-packed, effects-laden stage show.

Performing Arts
Rod Lott
Batman Live
7 p.m. Wednesday-Friday, 11:30 a.m. Saturday, 3:30 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, 1 and 5 p.m. Sunday
Chesapeake Energy Arena
100 W. Reno
chesapeakearena.com
800-745-3000
$19.50-$69.50

 

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Cosmo recipe

Take two dudes who love music, Nintendo 64 and anime. Add a dash of 'Seinfeld.' Yields one Cosmostanza, garage rock with Okie flavoring.

Music
Joshua Boydston
Grannyfest with Cosmostanza, Sunny Side Up and more
5 p.m. Saturday
Bad Granny's Bazaar
1759 N.W. 16th
528-4585
free

 

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

‘Poppins’ pops

Not even a too-grumpy lead can keep musical from tasting as sweet as a spoonful of sugar.

Performing Arts
Malena Lott
Mary Poppins
Wednesday-Sunday
Civic Center Music Hall
201 N. Walker
okcciviccenter.com
297-2264
$20-$75

 

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Deathtrap

Warner Archive raises Caine in a new Blu-ray of an old mystery.

Thriller
Rod Lott
Just a decade after starring in Sleuth, Michael Caine returned to similar fare in 1982's Deathtrap. Both are crafty mysteries with a bare minimum of characters and even fewer settings, but many twists to leave viewers with spinning heads.

 

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

‘Hyde’ and shriek

The strange case of ‘Jekyll & Hyde’ comes to the stage in a Broadway-bound musical.

Performing Arts
Rod Lott
Jekyll & Hyde
7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday, Jan. 16, through Jan. 20
Civic Center Music Hall
201 N. Walker
okcciviccenter.com
297-2264
$20-$60

 

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Play it

OKG7 things to do
Gazette staff
No, that photo is not a local adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey, but the comedy Mrs. Mannerly, about an etiquette teacher and her perfection-striving student. Running through March 16 at Carpenter Square Theatre, 800 W. Main, the play can be seen at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $16-$21. Call 232- 6500 or visit carpentersquare.com.

Thursday-Sunday, ongoing

 

Wednesday, March 6, 2013