Oklahoma Landscapes: A Plains State of Mind

The Tulsa Performing Arts Center Trust is partnering with Gilcrease Museum and the Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers to present Oklahoma Landscapes: A Plains State of Mind, a multi-disciplinary project featuring theatre, art and literature.

The Tulsa Performing Arts Center Trust is bringing August: Osage County to Tulsa January 26-31, 2010. Winner of five Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize in Drama, August: Osage County has been hailed by The New York Times as “the most exciting new American play Broadway has seen in years.” August: Osage County comes direct from Broadway starring Academy Award winner Estelle Parsons. Written by Tracy Letts, this play tells the story of a family reunited when the father mysteriously disappears. The powerful showdown that follows is hilarious as it is shocking. More information HERE

Gilcrease Museum will present Unconquered: Allan Houser and the Legacy of One Apache Family November 21, 2009-March 21, 2010. Admired around the world for his innovative interpretive genius, Allan Houser was born in Oklahoma in 1914, a member of the Warm Springs Chiricahua Apache tribe. In his lifetime, he created thousands of artworks – illustrations, paintings, and monumental sculpture in stone and bronze. Gilcrease Museum has planned public programming in conjunction with this exhibition. More information HERE

The Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers rounds out the collaboration with Beyond the Grapes of Wrath. National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Thomas will be inducted into the Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame, 7:00 p.m. October 6, at the Philbrook Museum. The dinner banquet will also include a memorial tribute to Pulitzer winner Doug Marlette.

Pulitzer winner N. Scott Momaday joins authors Rilla Askew, S. E. Hinton, Billie Letts and Michael Wallis for Oklahoma Landscapes—A Literary Tableau, featuring selected readings, 7:00 p.m. January 21, in the OSU-Tulsa Auditorium. More information HERE.

This project is sponsored by a grant from the National Endowment for the Art in the category of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius.