Oklahoma City Repertory Theatre (CityRep), Oklahoma's award-winning professional theatre, is proud to announce our 2019-2020 Season.
CityRep's eighteenth season fills the stage with exciting Oklahoma premiere productions and actors from among the best of Broadway, throughout the nation and in Oklahoma.
Founding Artistic Director Donald Jordan says "Our eighteenth season continues our mission to serve Oklahoma's diverse artistic, educational and civic needs by providing dynamic professional theatre that entertains, enlightens and inspires.
Every Brilliant Thing
An Oklahoma professional premiere
By Duncan Macmillan
With Jonny Donahoe
Civic Center Music Hall CitySpace Theatre
“…very charming…offers sentimentality without shame…guaranteed to keep your eyes brimming…[The script] balance[s] acuity and affability…with unobtrusive artistry…captivating…”
—NY Times
CityRep opens its eighteenth season with the immersive and uplifting Every Brilliant Thing, by Duncan Macmillian with Jonny Donahoe.
One of the most-produced new plays in America, Every Brilliant Thing strikes a delicate balance between sobering loss and cathartic laughter. Adapting the hit off-Broadway one-character show of the same name written by Duncan Macmillan, the play recounts a life lived in the shadow of suicide. Every Brilliant Thing heart-wrenching yet humorous presentation about depression and the lengths we will go to for those we love. In this acclaimed show, a young boy attempts to cure his mother’s depression by creating a list of the best things in the world. The list grows as he progresses from childhood (“Ice Cream”) and adolescence (“Star Trek”), to college (“Surprises”) and marriage (“Falling in Love”). But when life deals a bitter blow, the list proves to be helpful to the son in ways that it could never be for the mother. A profoundly intimate, immersive, life-affirming theatre experience.
Every Brilliant Thing Performances:
Friday, September 6 2019 at 7:30pm
Saturday, September 7 2019 at 1:30pm
Saturday, September 7 2019 at 7:30pm
Sunday, September 8 2019 at 1:30pm
Friday, September 13 2019 at 7:30pm
Saturday, September 14 2019 at 1:30pm
Saturday, September 14 2019 at 7:30pm
Sunday, September 15 2019 at 1:30pm
Friday, September 19 2019 at 7:30pm
Saturday, September 20 2019 at 1:30pm
Saturday, September 21 2019 at 7:30pm
Sunday, September 22 2019 at 1:30pm
A Doll’s House part 2
An Oklahoma premiere
By Lucas Hnath
Civic Center Music Hall CitySpace Theatre
“…lucid and absorbing…Modern in its language, mordant in its humor and suspenseful in its plotting…the play judiciously balances conflicting ideas about freedom, love and responsibility.”
—Time Out NY
In the final scene of Ibsen’s 1879 groundbreaking masterwork, Nora Helmer makes the shocking decision to leave her husband and children, and begin a life on her own. This climactic event—when Nora slams the door on everything in her life—instantly propelled world drama into the modern age.
In A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2, many years have passed since Nora’s exit. Now, there’s a knock on that same door. Nora has returned. But why? And what will it mean for those she left behind?
Broadway leading lady and CityRep affiliated artist Stacey Logan returns to our stage in this brilliant new, Tony award-winning play.
A Doll’s House part 2 performances:
Friday, November 8 2019 at 7:30pm
Saturday, November 9 2019 at 1:30pm
Saturday, November 9 2019 at 7:30pm
Sunday, November 10 2019 at 1:30pm
Friday, November 15 2019 at 7:30pm
Saturday, November 16 2019 at 1:30pm
Saturday, November 16 2019 at 7:30pm
Sunday, November 17 2019 at 1:30pm
Friday, November 22 2019 at 7:30pm
Saturday, November 23 2019 at 1:30pm
Saturday, November 23 2019 at 7:30pm
Sunday, November 24 2019 at 1:30pm
Sexy Laundry
An Oklahoma premiere
By Michele Riml
Civic Center Music Hall CitySpace Theatre
After twenty-five years of marriage, the emergence of love handles and receding hairlines, Alice and Henry have hit a physical plateau. With a Sex for Dummies guidebook in hand, Alice convinces Henry into a weekend of alone time in the hopes of seducing him and unearthing her inner vixen. Henry, however, wants to keep things the way they are - comfortable and easy. Exploring every fantasy from leather to lace, Alice and Henry portray every couple's desire to grow together but maintain individuality.
Armed with a copy of “Sex for Dummies,” Alice and Henry check themselves into a trendy spa hotel with a mission: to jump-start their 25-year marriage. Time has taken its toll – so have kids, stress and gravity. In desperation, Alice has decided that they either make this final, major effort to save their marriage, or they get a divorce and go their separate ways. Can they embrace all the wild suggestions Alice keeps pulling from her handy-dandy marriage-saving manual? Does Alice have the courage to unearth her inner vixen? Is Henry prepared to see his fifty-plus wife, and mother of his children, dressed in black leather?
Alice and Henry share their erotic fantasies, exchange recriminations, and take turns confessing the details of their mid-life crises as the play flips from comedic to serious and back again. Henry and Alice’s touching and hilarious rediscovery of themselves and their inspiring efforts to restore their marriage will resonate with audiences of all ages. By turns poignant and laugh-out-loud funny, Sexy Laundry is a romantic comedy guaranteed to strike a deep and resounding chord.
Sexy Laundry performances:
Friday, February 7 2020 at 7:30pm
Saturday, February 8 2020 at 1:30pm
Saturday, February 8 2020 at 7:30pm
Sunday, February 9 2020 at 1:30pm
Friday, February 14 2020 at 7:30pm
Saturday, February 15 2020 at 1:30pm
Saturday, February 15 2020 at 7:30pm
Sunday, February 16 2020 at 1:30pm
Friday, February 21 2020 at 7:30pm
Saturday, February 22 2020 at 1:30pm
Saturday, February 22 2020 at 7:30pm
Sunday, February 23 2020 at 1:30pm
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
An Oklahoma professional premiere
Book and Lyrics by Robert L. Freedman
Music and Lyrics by Steven Lutvak
Based on A Novel by Roy Horniman
Civic Center Music Hall Freede Little Theatre
A distant heir to a family fortune sets out to speed up the line of succession by using a great deal of charm... and a dash of murder.
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder is the knock-'em-dead, uproarious hit and the most-nominated show of the 2014 season. With ten Tony nominations and four wins, including Best Musical, Book, Direction and Costumes, it also earned seven Drama Desk Awards (including Best Musical), four Outer Critics Circle Awards (including Best Musical) and one Drama League Award (Best Musical).
When the low-born Monty Navarro finds out that he's eighth in line for an earldom in the lofty D'Ysquith family, he figures his chances of outliving his predecessors are slight and sets off down a far more ghoulish path. Can he knock off his unsuspecting relatives without being caught and become the ninth Earl of Highhurst? And what of love? Because murder isn't the only thing on Monty's mind....
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder is a murderous romp filled with unforgettable music, non-stop laughs and a scene-stealing role for one actor playing all eight of the doomed heirs who meet their ends in the most creative and side-splitting ways.
CityRep co-founder Jonathan Beck Reed returns to our stage for this truly original and fresh new comedy that will delight audiences and leave them begging for more.
A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder performances:
Friday, June 5, 2020 7:30pm
Saturday, June 6, 2020 1:30pm
Saturday, June 6, 2020 7:30pm
Sunday, June 7, 2020 1:30pm
Friday, June 12 2020 7:30pm
Saturday, June 13 2020 1:30pm
Saturday, June 13 2020 7:30pm
Sunday, June 14 2020 1:30pm
For information on Season FlexPasses, which offer a significant savings over single ticket prices, or for individual tickets, go to cityrep.com.