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A New Identity for Oklahoma
Essay
A New Identity for Oklahoma
by Tara Brooke Watkins
7 August 2019
Getting Serious about Promoting Plays by Women
Essay
Getting Serious about Promoting Plays by Women
by Michael Wright
11 October 2017
Creating Diversity in Oklahoma’s Performing Arts
Essay
Creating Diversity in Oklahoma’s Performing Arts
by Stephen M. Miranda
22 December 2015
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A New Identity for Oklahoma
Essay

A New Identity for Oklahoma

7 August 2019

Tara Brooke Watkins discusses how Oklahoma! has shaped the state’s cultural identity, the Tulsa Race Massacre, and Spinning Plates’s production of the musical with an all-black cast.

Getting Serious about Promoting Plays by Women
Essay

Getting Serious about Promoting Plays by Women

11 October 2017

Michael Wright discusses how his playwriting residency program WomenWorks is helping tackle the underrepresentation of female playwrights in the US. 

Creating Diversity in Oklahoma’s Performing Arts
Essay

Creating Diversity in Oklahoma’s Performing Arts

22 December 2015

Director and producer Stephen M. Miranda writes about a forum on diversity he recently attended in Oklahoma, and the need for more decision-makers from diverse backgrounds in theatres around the country. 

The Bird, the Bunny, and the American Avant-Garde
Essay

The Bird, the Bunny, and the American Avant-Garde

10 October 2015

In this installment of her After-the-Avant-Garde series, Kate Kremer looks at the parallel functions of the prompter in the chicken suit in Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s 2009 Romeo and Juliet and Br’er Rabbit in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ An Octoroon.

My Father’s Bones, a play by Suzan Shown Harjo and Mary Kathryn Nagle about Olympian Jim Thorpe
Native American Rights Fund
Video

My Father’s Bones, a play by Suzan Shown Harjo and Mary Kathryn Nagle about Olympian Jim Thorpe

3 June 2015
Oklahoma City, OK, United States

On June 3, 2015, the Native American Rights Fund presented a staged reading of My Father’s Bones in Oklahoma City, OK, a play by Suzan Shown Harjo and Mary Kathryn Nagle that recounts the struggle of Jack, Bill and Richard Thorpe to recover the remains of their father—the unmatched Olympian Jim Thorpe—so that he can buried with their relatives in Sac and Fox Nation land.

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The National Performance Network Annual Meeting
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National Performance Network
Video

The National Performance Network Annual Meeting

Monday 17 November 2014
Tulsa, OK, United States

Tulsa, OK! The National Performance Network Annual Meeting in Tulsa, Oklahoma  livestreamed on the global, commons-based peer-produced HowlRound TV network at howlround.tv on Monday 17 November.