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In our age of prequels, sequels and reboots, it’s no wonder someone got to Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!”

Daniel Fish’s restaging of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic is no Kansas City cornbread caper. The director explains why he ratcheted up the racial tension and gun violence

The one-man show "More Sky — The Story of Lynn Riggs" will be presented April 28 at the University of Oklahoma Memorial Union.

From Amy Adams’s West End debut to Tom Cruise’s new ‘Top Gun’ – our critics pick 100 must-sees for the next three months

The Fisher Center at Bard will present a bold, gender-reframed, era-transcending vision of Molière’s 1665 tragicomedy Dom Juan, conceived and directed by Ashley Tata, with a new translation from NYU Professor of ​​French Literature  and theater scholar Sylvaine Guyot and Fisher Center Artistic Director Gideon Lester.

The National Tour of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! arrived at the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theatre this week for a mercifully brief engagement, and shortly before Thursday's performance began, the preshow announcement encouraged audience members to pull out their phones, take a selfie, add a 50th anniversary hashtag, and then silence them. Left unmentioned was that the ensuing three hours would include bizarre theatre, gunshots ringing out in a pitch black theatre, and audie...

An iconoclastic take on the classic excites on tour at KenCen.

Race and gender continue to dominate the city’s cultural venues, whether audiences like it or not.

From Amy Adams’s West End debut to Tom Cruise’s new ‘Top Gun’ – our critics pick 100 must-sees for the next three months

This is not your grandparents’ OKLAHOMA. During intermission, I heard one woman ask another, “Is this the Oklahoma you remember?” and it’s certainly not. If you’ve ever found the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic musical boring or problematic, then this is the revival for you.