Now on stage · Global Guests from New Zealand

Out of Mind

Filled with original music and heartfelt storytelling, Out of Mind is a powerful and deeply moving one-act musical that explores life inside New Zealand’s Tokanui Mental Hospital during the 1950s. By Deborah Steele & Julianne Parkinson.

November 14 to 21, 2026 · World Stage Theatre Studio, 1130 S. Harvard

Nov 14, 20, 21 at 7:30pm and Nov 14, 15, 21 at 3pm

Out of Mind poster: seven performers in white costumes, Global Guests from New Zealand

World Stage Theatre Company

Multicultural community theatre in Tulsa, Oklahoma

The World Stage Theatre Company gives actors and audiences access to the world by telling multicultural, inspirational, and transformational stories to connect our hearts and minds with people, places, and ideas.

About World Stage Theatre Company

Season 9 · 2026 to 2027

Stories of the Mind and Other Matters

01 Past show

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

September 18 to 27, 2026

Tulsa PAC, Liddy Doenges Theatre

02 Past show

Dear Evan Hansen

October 30 to November 8, 2026

World Stage Theatre Studio

03 Now playing

Out of Mind

Global Guests from New Zealand

November 14 to 21, 2026

World Stage Theatre Studio

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04

Every Brilliant Thing

January 15 to 24, 2027

World Stage Theatre Studio

05

1984

April 9 to 18, 2027

Tulsa PAC, Liddy Doenges Theatre

06 AITA/IATA festival

World Stage International Theatre Festival

June 2 to 6, 2027

Tulsa Little Theatre

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  • World Stage Theatre Company Season 8, Timeless and Relevant Stories: Lord of the Flies, For Colored Girls, and Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
Two actors in period costume face each other on stage in a World Stage Theatre Company production

Going Global

We take Tulsa stories abroad and bring the world’s theatre home.

Every other year a World Stage production performs internationally. In the years between, international artists perform here in Tulsa.

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AITA/IATA Associate MemberHost of the 2027 AITA/IATA International Amateur Theatre Festival in Tulsa, June 2 to 6, 2027.

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Auditions

Audition calls for upcoming World Stage productions.

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Volunteers make every production possible.

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Education

Training for artists in all aspects of theatre.

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Thanks to our Funders and Donors

  • Tulsa Performing Arts Center
  • Vision Tulsa, City of Tulsa Vision Arts
  • Arts Alliance Tulsa
  • Sanford and Irene Burnstein Family Foundation
  • George Kaiser Family Foundation
  • ONEOK
  • Mack’s Wings
  • John Burns
  • Dennis Neill
  • Scott Schingen
  • Miriam Mills
  • Louis Wagner
  • Theatre Development Fund