Driving Miss Daisy 

by Alfred Uhry

September 15-25, 2022

Tulsa Performing Arts Center – Liddy Doenges

Directed by Paula Scheider

The place is the Deep South, the time 1948, just prior to the civil rights movement. Having recently demolished another car, Daisy Werthan, a rich, sharp-tongued Jewish widow of seventy-two, is informed by her son, Boolie, that henceforth she must rely on the services of a chauffeur. The person he hires for the job is a thoughtful, unemployed black man, Hoke, whom Miss Daisy immediately regards with disdain and who, in turn, is not impressed with his employer’s patronizing tone and, he believes, her latent prejudice. 

Terminus

by Gabriel Jason Dean

February 2-12, 2023

Liddy Doenges Theatre, Tulsa Performing Arts Center

Directed by Dionne Lambert

This is the story of Eller–a progressive white matriarch–and her mixed-race grandson, Jaybo, who live together down by the railroad tracks in rural Georgia. When Eller’s mind begins to fade, her violent past in the segregated South haunts her from the very walls of the old family home. And as she descends terrifyingly closer toward a horrifying truth, Jaybo’s capacity to love his grandmother is put to the test. 

I and You

by Lauren Gunderson

April 6-16, 2023

World Stage Theatre Company Studio – 306 S. Phoenix Ave.

Directed by Justin Daniels

One afternoon, Anthony arrives unexpectedly at classmate Caroline’s door bearing a beat-up copy of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, an urgent assignment from their English teacher. Homebound due to illness, Caroline hasn’t been to school in months, but she is as quick and sardonic as Anthony is athletic, sensitive, and popular. As these two let down their guards and share their secrets, this seemingly mundane poetry project unlocks a much deeper mystery that has brought them together. I and You is an ode to youth, life, love, and the strange beauty of human connectedness.

Some Girl(s)

by Neil LaBute

June 1-11, 2023

Liddy Doenges Theatre, Tulsa Performing Arts Center

Directed by Kelli McLoud-Schingen

Your career as a writer is blossoming, and your beautiful, young fiancée is waiting to get married and rush off to Cancun by your side―so what is your natural reaction? Well, if you’re a man, it’s probably to get nervous and start calling up old girlfriends. And so begins a single man’s odyssey through four hotel rooms as he flies across the country in search of the perfect woman (whom he’s already broken up with). Some Girl(s) is from Neil Labute, American theater’s great agent provocateur. In grand LaBute fashion, this outrageously funny and deadly serious portrait of the artist as a young seducer casts a truthful, hilarious light on a typical young American male as he wanders through the heart of darkness that is himself.

The Wiz Jr

Book by William F Brown, Music and lyrics by Charlie Smalls

Additional Material by Tini Tippit

Based on the Wonderful  Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

June 7-9, 2023

Liddy Doenges Theatre, Tulsa Performing Arts Center

Directed by Jen Thomas

Like an emerald, this precious Broadway gem infuses L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz with a dazzling mix of rock, gospel and soul music. The Wiz Jr. is a vibrant take on Dorothy’s adventures through the Land of Oz and a fun, family-friendly musical that is considered one of the most popular and creative theatrical adaptations of all time.