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The national tour of Daniel Fish’s reimagined Oklahoma!, now playing at the Forrest Theatre, is Oklahoma! like you’ve never seen it. Darker and sultrier than you ever imagined Rodgers & Hammerstein’s magnum opus could be, this production makes an almost 80-year-old musical feel not only modern, but dangerous.

The story of Henrik Ibsen's play involves a married woman, Ellida (Chaon Cross), who grew up near the sea but now lives in a dull place with her boring husband.

Our critics debate the necessity of having every work of theater converse with the big issues of the day.

For over 25 years, Theater Talk has been appointment listening on WBFO, featuring the insights of theater critic and historian, Anthony Chase, who joins Peter Hall for a five-minute weekly broadcast at 6:45 and 8:45 Friday mornings on 88.7 WBFO with a podcast available on wbfo.org. This week (February 25, 2022) Theater Talk looks back at the controversy surrounding OKLAHOMA!

For over 25 years, Theater Talk has been appointment listening on WBFO, featuring the insights of theater critic and historian, Anthony Chase, who joins Peter Hall for a five-minute weekly broadcast at 6:45 and 8:45 Friday mornings on 88.7 WBFO with a podcast available on wbfo.org. This week Anthony and Peter discuss the musical OKLAHOMA! with a revival on a North American Tour this week at Shea's Buffalo Theatre.

If you're looking for something to do this weekend there is plenty happening across Western New York.

This is not your parents, our your grandparents version of OKLAHOMA! The classic musical from Rogers & Hammerstein has been re-imagined by Director Daniel Fish and is on stage now at Shea's Performing Arts Center.

In March of 1943, the audience that poured into New York’s St. James Theatre had no idea they were witnessing the the birth of the musical comedy as we know it today. The maiden production of composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein’s OKLAHOMA! would change the face of Broadway forever. Flash forward 80 years and audiences once again had no idea what they would encounter in Director Daniel Fish’s dark disjointed OKLAHOMA!

Daniel Fish’s revival of "Oklahoma!" creates an even more menacing antagonist while reflecting on the morality of its original love story’s protagonist, along with commenting on gun violence in American society.

The eagerly anticipated revival has arrived on the Great White Way