About Theatre TulsaTheatre Tulsa is the Tulsa area’s leading non-profit civic theatre, providing professional-level productions and artistic experience to local audiences and performers.
Since 1922, Theatre Tulsa has been a part of the culture of Tulsa. Theatre Tulsa has entertained the community through the Depression, World War II and the disaster of two fires.
Theatre Tulsa has been responsible for bringing hundreds of productions to Tulsans. It premiered the first-ever community theatre productions of “Our Town” (1939), “All My Sons” (1947), the musical “Brownstone” (1985), “Miracle on 34th Street: A Musical Adaptation” (1993 – an original musical written for Theatre Tulsa), “I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change” (2003) and the first American production of “Pitmen Painters” (2011).
Theatre Tulsa received the city’s first Tulsa Award for Theatre Excellence (TATE) for its production of “Up the Down Staircase” in 2009. The company recently received additional TATE awards for Outstanding Play in 2013 for its production of “Boeing-Boeing” and a collaborative youth production of “Hamlet,” its 2014 production of Clybourne Park, its 2015 production of The 39 Steps and its 2016 productions of Don't Dress for Dinner and “Glengarry Glen Ross.”
Theatre Tulsa received a Governor’s Arts Award from the Oklahoma Arts Council in 2016, and was awarded the national Twink Lynch Organizational Achievement Award by the American Association of Community Theatres in 2015. The theatre company was named “Theatre of the Year” by the Oklahoma Community Theatre Association in 2011, and received its OCTAVision award in 2013. Visit
www.theatretulsa.org for more information.
Theatre Tulsa’s season is sponsored in part by a generous grant from the Shubert Foundation.
Theatre Tulsa is the longest continuously-operating civic theatre west of the Mississippi River, and the seventh oldest in the United States. |
