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Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors" on the Lawn at Philbrook

American Theatre Company (ATC), which has been a part of Tulsa's local arts scene since 1970, will soon present "The Comedy of Errors" by William Shakespeare. Our guest on this edition of ST is Lisa Wilson, a longtime member of the Theatre and Drama faculty here at TU, who is directing this production. The play will be staged on the verdant and gorgeous --- and, thank goodness, well-shaded --- lawn of the Philbrook Museum of Art on August 3rd, 4th, 10th, and 11th, with all curtains at 8pm. (For ticket information, please see this page at the ATC website.) As Wilson tells us on today's program, this is a classic comedy that's been re-made, re-imagined, and re-fashioned many times over the years; this is mainly because the play's high-and-low-and-middle-brow humor, as encountered throughout its actual text --- from pratfalls and mistaken-identity gags to goofy wordplay and jokes about passing gas --- is basically timeless. Indeed, ATC itself offered a hip-hop-driven Shakespearean re-make of this sort --- a street-smart, modern-day production called "The Bomb-itty of Errors" --- earlier this year.

Rich Fisher passed through KWGS about thirty years ago, and just never left. Today, he is the general manager of Public Radio Tulsa, and the host of KWGS’s public affairs program, StudioTulsa, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in August 2012 . As host of StudioTulsa, Rich has conducted roughly four thousand long-form interviews with local, national, and international figures in the arts, humanities, sciences, and government. Very few interviews have gone smoothly. Despite this, he has been honored for his work by several organizations including the Governor's Arts Award for Media by the State Arts Council, a Harwelden Award from the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, and was named one of the “99 Great Things About Oklahoma” in 2000 by Oklahoma Today magazine.
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