New leader helps OKC theater emerge from pandemic with 'Reboot Season'
New Artistic Director Kelly Kerwin has announced OKC Rep's spring 2022 "Reboot Season," which will be the company's first performances since autumn 2019.
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New Artistic Director Kelly Kerwin has announced OKC Rep's spring 2022 "Reboot Season," which will be the company's first performances since autumn 2019.
“That’s a change that I made,” OKCRep’s Artistic Director Kelly Kerwin said. “OKCRep is the future.” Kerwin’s referring to the subtle, yet bold, name change...
The 2022 series runs January 12–30, 2022.
across the United States. We are impressed by Ms. Kerwin’s experience and vision and are excited to have her lead OKC Rep into the next generation,” said Search Committee Chair Max Weitzenhoffer, who is chairman of Nimax Theaters and a member of the OKC Rep board of directors. Kerwin will be starting with OKC Rep July 6 and is relocating to Oklahoma City from New York City, where she serves as the associate producer for The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival. She is also a line producer for plays and musicals in The Public’s five performance spaces and co-leads The Publicâ...
A scene from Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran. Javaad Alipoor, Parivash Akbarzadeh. Photo: Peter Dibdin. BEFORE SITTING DOWN AT MY DESK for the inaugural evening of the Public Theater’s digital edition of its annual Under the Radar Festival, I scroll through my phone, looking at costumed marauders storming the Capitol Building. The pictures depict smiling Vikings, Confederate and Revolutionary war soldiers, Captain America as a paratrooper holding a straw broom. Is he a warlock, or a street-sweeper? There are enough mixed metaphors for heroism to make your head explode, and...