Summer's heat can sometimes sneak up on you, as the days get longer and the sun seems to burn brighter and higher in the sky each day, the temperature rising until it becomes stifling, sweltering.
Nowadays, it seems that everything old is constantly being rebooted, updated, adapted, reimagined, etc.
At its most fundamental, theater is a group of people coming together to tell a story in front of an audience.
Friedrich Nietzsche said, 'He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
a?oeThe devil made me do it isa?? is often said when one is caught doing something they shouldn't have.
Observing visual art can at times create an experience where the viewer has no idea what they are looking at or what the artist is trying to say but they cannot help to appreciate and enjoy the undeniable beauty of the colors and the composition.
When the set for a play has more doors than anything else, you may be in store for a classic door-slamming farce, complete with perfectly timed entrances and exits, mistaken identities, confusion, and madcap antics.
It's always exciting when a young theatre company finds a place to call its own, a permanent home where it can grow creatively and grow hopefully long-lasting roots into the surrounding community and the local performing arts scene.
Sometimes, bigger is, in fact better.
No matter how large the cast, some shows really rest on the shoulders of just one or maybe two characters and the actors in those roles.
There's no denying it.
In recent years, Broadway musicals have come from seemingly every kind of source material, from books to movies to comics.
There are many musicals that are known as classis, which are beloved or have stood the test of time for years and years.
Oklahoma City's Lyric Theatre has a well-deserved reputation for their all-around high production values and high quality in their plays and musicals.
Before writer/director Aaron Sorkin became best known for tv shows like The West Wing and Newsroom and movies such as The Social Network and Steve Jobs, he penned a stage play that may be more famous as a movie.
Some musicals or plays can be a little bit difficult to pin down or describe and Regina Taylor's Crowns, now playing at Lyric Theatre's Plaza stage is in that category.
Writing a successful play with only two actors and very minimal technical elements can be quite a challenge.
Any truly great piece of theater (or film or art or music or a book) is both timely and timeless, reaching out across many generations and diverse populations to deliver a universal human message that anyone can understand and relate to.
The holidays are an undeniable magical time for many people.
Anywhere you live in the country, there is at least one theater doing it during the holidays at least one theater that has a production known for being the region's big, must-see holiday event.
