Oklahoma Shakespeare recently brought one of the Bard’s most famous works to audiences as the cornerstone of their 40th anniversary season, and Oklahoma City University Stars lined the playbill. Hamlet, Shakespeare’s legendary play about death, madness, and revenge, wrapped production on Sept. 29. School of Theater alum Sarah Filek, BFA Acting ’24, made her Oklahoma…
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.
First theatre production of year to open with new guidelines
The first School of Theatre production, “Woe is Me,” opens this weekend.
Acting senior prepares for new music release
Alison Sloan, acting senior, is working on her second album.
Theatre school performs Shakespearean classic “Cymbeline”
For the next Stage II production of the semester, Micah Grace Gilley, student director and acting fifth year senior, is putting on a production of Shakespeare’s play “Cymbeline,” with a few twists.
Gallery: Julius Caesar
View photos from the first TheatreOCU mainstage of the semester.
School of Theater to present first mainstage show of the year
The first mainstage show of this year’s School of Theater season is Julius Caesar.
Students create sock puppet theater company, host auditions
The Royal Sockspeare Company is a group that will stage Shakespeare plays with sock puppets.
Dylan Smith-Sutton: Shakespeare + Science
Dylan has little Shakespeare experience, but in honor of Shakespeare’s 400th anniversary, I decided to use only questions asked by Shakespeare in his sonnets.
TheatreOCU prepares for final mainstage performance
Rehearsals are taking place for TheatreOCU’s last mainstage performance of the season, a portrayal of the Shakespearean comedy As You Like It. The play was written by William Shakespeare and is considered by many to be one of his greatest comedies. It follows the story of two lovers who overcome various obstacles like exile and…
Shakespeare sonnets to be performed
Select members of the OCU community, including President Robert Henry, will be doing a public reading of Shakespeare’s 156 sonnets.
Star Wars, Shakespeare combined for performance
By Taylor Rey, Staff Writer Star Wars and Shakespeare are an unlikely combination, but students will get the chance to see both in the next OCU Edge production. William Shakespeare’s The Empire Striketh Back is a play written by Ian Doescher. The show is actually the script of the second movie in the Star…
Shakespeare’s “Pericles, Prince of Tyre” opens on campus
The student directed play, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, will open tomorrow in Burg Theater in Kirkpatrick Fine Arts Center.Twenty-six cast members will perform the Shakespearian play with a couple of their own added twists.
Richard II
Hunter Paul, acting senior, looks on as Tomer Burtnaru, acting senior, and Robert Jamerson, acting sophomore, duel during the final dress rehearsal for TheatreOCU’s Stage II production of Shakespeare’s Richard II in the Black Box Theatre in the Wanda L. Bass Music Center on Wednesday evening.
Photo: James Murphy
Students, faculty take center stage in OSP’s ‘King Lear’
OCU adjunct professor Hal Kohlman is starring alongside other OCU students and faculty in Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park’s production of King Lear.
The play depicts a king and his three daughters as he tries to decide how to divide his kingdom.
It is one of Shakespeare’s later dramas and has become one of the most powerful dramas in Western literature.
Skeleton identified as King Richard III
By Amy Fuhrman A skeleton found buried under a parking lot in Leicester, England was identified as King Richard III. King Richard III is best know as one of literature’s most infamous villains. Shakespeare depicted the king as a child-killing monster in his play Richard III. For the whole story on the parking lot skeleton,…
Anne Hathaway to star in ‘The Taming of the Shrew’ movie
By Amanda Ack Anne Hathaway (Les Miserables) is set to star in screenwriter Abi Morgan’s upcoming adaptation of William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. No director appears to be attached to the project as of yet. For more information on the film, click here.
Reduxion Theatre Company presents Richard III
By Brianna Bohland, Staff Writer Reduxion Theatre Company brings an unusual and unexpected presentation of Shakepeare’s Richard III, bringing it from 15thcentury to 20th century. The modernized version of the classic tragedy includes occasional musical numbers, such as Radiohead’s “Paranoid Android.” The classic to contemporary take on Richard III will be performed Thursday, Friday, and…
