Theater director David Shakes looks back at the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and looks ahead to the North Star Players’ 2021 revival of Deborah Solomon’s “Emancipation Denied.”
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Black Wall Street comes alive in new play
Following the Civil War, African-Americans began to establish all-black townships in the Indian and Oklahoma Territories. One of those townships was Greenwood — located north of the tracks in Tulsa. Created in 1906 by O.W. Gurley, one of Tulsa’s earliest pioneers, and other black entrepreneurs who invested in property, Greenwood over time became a self-sufficient […]
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Theater review: “The Amen Corner” at MuCCC
James Baldwin’s “The Amen Corner,” performed by the North Star Players under the direction of David Shakes, opened at MuCCC (142 Atlantic Avenue) on Tuesday evening. Between moving monologues, well-navigated layers of moral ambiguity, and singing that will give you goosebumps, this production is community theater at its finest. Through the course of the play, […]
