Emily Sullivan and Zac Decker’s dynamic performance in Footloose (Photo/Michael Anderson/Wanda L. Bass School of Music) Drama, duets and dancing, a make-up of a spectacular show. Footloose hits all the marks. Based on the 1980s film adaptation, Footloose the Musical turns the old town of Beaumont into rock and roll central. The audience follows Ren…
Meaningless: Newest Neustadt Lecture Performance
For the 2024 Oklahoma City University Wimberly School of Religion’s Neustadt Lecture, OCU has partnered with the Jewish Theatre of Oklahoma to present “Meaningless,” an interpretation of Ecclesiastes. “Meaningless” is a one-man show performed by Rodney Brazil, an OKC-based actor, director and writer, who helped adapt the book of Ecclesiastes into play format, along with…
American Premiere of Opera Pieta
The twisted and captivating tale of Pietà/Suor Angelica took the stage this past weekend as a part of the Wanda Bass School of Music season. Pietà/Suor Angelica are two separate operas that tie into each other through characters and plot lines. Pietà is a new opera co-written by the director of this production, Andrea DelGiudice….
Anna Marie Wright Crowned Miss OCU 2024
Miss OCU 2024, Oklahoma City University’s annual beauty pageant crowned a new winner last night in junior musical theatre major Anna Marie Wright. The competition featured 4 onstage sections as well as an interview prior. Competitors compete in an onstage question, health and fitness wear, talent, and an evening wear section. Nine women ranging from…
School of Theatre presents final mainstage play of the year
The School of Theatre’s final mainstage of the academic year is a politically relevant play about fascism and moderacy.
Student opera group returns to produce digital performance
The student-led performance group OPERAtions is returning from a semester-long hiatus to create an online production.
Senior performers prepare for annual showcase
Seniors from the Wanda L. Bass School or Music and the School of Theatre are gearing up to participate in a variety of showcases across the country.
School of Theatre prepares Shakespeare readings
The School of Theatre’s Shakespeare sections are preparing full readings of Shakespeare plays in place of a scene showcase.
Gallery: The Women of Lockerbie
On Oct. 16, the School of Theatre opened their Stage II season with “The Women of Lockerbie” in the Burg Theatre. The show was streamed online, and actors maintained physical distance throughout the performance.
Kristin Chenoweth hosts Zoom meetings with students
Performing arts students got to have a Zoom Q&A session with OCU alumna and artist-in-residence Kristin Chenoweth March 31.
Pioneer of theatre degree prepares for graduation
Alyssa Peters, theatre and performance senior, trains in all aspects of theater.
Acting student directs feminist adaptation of Greek classic
The School of Theatre’s next Stage II production will put a twist on a classic Greek tragedy with an added feminist element.
Four seniors selected to work at Disney World
Four performance seniors will be joining the working ranks of Disney Park personalities.
Choir to premiere piece remembering Oklahoma City bombing
An OCU choir has commissioned an original work memorializing 25 years since the Oklahoma City bombing.
School of theatre to produce time-bending show “Arcadia”
The School of Theater is preparing for “Arcadia,” its second mainstage production of the season.
Mainstage opera deals with themes of misogyny
OCU’s first mainstage opera, “Lucia di Lammermoor,” touches on war, women’s struggles, and loss.
School of Music production to feature zombies singing opera
This Halloween season, the OCU campus is facing an infestation of zombies through the second mainstage musical show of the year, “The Zombies of Penzance.”
First theater mainstage to explore race, civil rights
The School of Theatre and the Oklahoma Children’s Theatre are putting on a coproduction of To Kill a Mockingbird.
Student Choreography Show features 200 students
The Student Choreography Show and Friends is in full-swing, with participating students in rehearsals and faculty overseeing the student-run production.
Students cast in local immersive theater, art experience
The show is an interactive art exhibit that prompts participants to indulge in three of the five senses—touch, sight and sound.
Music student stages original production with student composition club
The production is about the relationship between a mother and a daughter a the mother suffers from Alzheimer’s Disease.
Gallery: Side Show
View photos from the first musical of the year.
Student opera performance group returns after three years
OPERAtions is a student opera company that was reintroduced this semester for the first time since 2015.
Oklahoma City hosting local holiday events
School activities will shut down, but Oklahoma City will still be full of holiday events.
Gallery: Steal the show!
The Ann Lacy School of Dance and Entertainment has their first performance of the semester Oct. 13.
OCUpella to perform at off-campus Plaza Festival
OCUpella, a student a capella group, will open the festival at 11 a.m. Sept. 30 on the festival’s main stage.
