Cocktail Party Fact: The idea of a shipwreck and the desert island setting was a real life sea disaster in which a shipload of Virginia bound colonists ended up getting shipwrecked on Bermuda in 1609. One survivor wrote about it in a letter which was well known during that time. The name “Gilligan” does not [...]

Cocktail Party Fact: After a large amount of early success, when the Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged) tried to open a big run in Los Angeles, LA Times reviewer Syvlie Drake gave it such a brutal review, it failed rather badly. The company then proceeded to take the show around the world to massive [...]

Cocktail Party Fact: Although the title Much Ado About Nothing seems perfect, some scholars believe it was a rewrite of an earlier play now lost and called Love’s Labor’s Won. This title was included in a list of Shakespeare’s plays, but no text exists of it. Others believe that was an earlier title for The [...]

Cocktail Party Fact: One of many versions of the story of King Lear, there have been at least forty other tellings this historical figure before Shakespeare. However, in most other versions, Lear does not go mad but regains his throne and gives it to his grateful daughter, Cordelia.
Here’s The Plot: King Lear decides to divide [...]

Cocktail Party Fact: Since the main character in each play is Prince Hal, it would make sense that the Henry of the title refers to him. Rather, it refers to his father, Henry Bolingbroke, who was first seen in Richard II. Prince Hal has to wait until Henry V to be the title character.
Here’s [...]

Cocktail Party Fact: Shakespeare probably based it on another play on the same subject called UR-HAMLET (1588) by Thomas Kyd. The original tale dates back at least to 9th century Icelandic Sagas of Amleth, a Danish nobleman who took revenge after his uncle killed his father and married his mother. The name Amleth means dim-witted [...]

Cocktail Party Fact: Limon and Company danced this ballet at the White House in 1967 for President and Mrs. Johnson. Limon was also married to Isadora Duncan.
Here’s the plot: Within the fabric of a formal Pavan, interrupted by private asides, the four principal characters of Shakespeare’s Othello - the Moor, Desdemona, Emilia, and Iago - [...]

Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park (OSP) is the creation of executive producer Jack O’Meara and artistic director Kathryn Huey O’Meara McGill. Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park’s purpose is to provide Oklahoma with quality stage productions in unique and exciting environments at a reasonable price and to nurture cultural growth in Oklahoma [...]

The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, and Macbeth will be presented at the Grandel Theatre in the Grand Center Arts District. Treasure Island will be presented, in cooperation with The Missouri History Museum, at the Lee Auditorium.

We are now updating all of our schedules for the 2001-2002 season. We have no event listings for this organization for one of two reasons: we have requested updates and they will be added as soon as we receive them, or the organization is currently not producing events. (Many organizations operate only seasonally.) Please check [...]