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The Lynn Riggs Theater is fully equipped with professional sound and lighting and is available for events. Features include: Professional sound system and mixer; Professional stage lighting; Adjustable side wings/curtains; 6 risers for seating or choir; Direct exterior entry; Full bar service available; Seating and 10 bistro-size tables available
Mar 30, 2023 · On March 30, 1943, a middle-aged man named Lynn Riggs sat in a Broadway theater, watching the final rehearsal for Oklahoma! before its premiere the following night. The first collaboration...
- Jennie Rothenberg Gritz
- Discoveries
- Riggs at Ou
- The Plays
- More Discoveries
This story starts with Andy Couch, a 2012 OU art history graduate. After adding a degree in museum management from the University of Tulsa, he became the first director and curator of the Museum of History (MoH) and Lynn Riggs Memorial in Claremore, Okla. The museum is as picturesque as a scene from a William Inge play, complete with white gazebo w...
Rollie Lynn Riggs was born in 1899 near Claremore. His father was a hard-boiled rancher and banker who thought Lynn wasn’t rugged enough. His part-Cherokee mother died when he was one and his stepmother was a cold and angry woman who locked him in the doghouse as punishment. It was a bleak childhood for the slight, fair boy in spectacles. At age 18...
Riggs is best known as a Southwestern folk playwright. In person, he was sophisticated and articulate, but his plays—not his poetry or short stories—featured folk songs and authentic regional speech. His fastidious duplication of early Oklahoma dialect is likened to John Millington Synge’s mastery of Irish dialect. Riggs says that Oklahomans’ speec...
Couch, who read troves of intimate love letters in the Riggs Collection at Yale, is bemused about the public adulation of Riggs as a gay man. “You want to respect his wishes and to keep his relations private, but you also want to celebrate him, because he is such an icon for the LGBTQ community, not only in Oklahoma, but for Native American culture...
Jun 28, 2024 · Named after Claremore native Lynn Riggs, the late gay Cherokee poet and playwright who wrote “Green Grow the Lilacs” (the inspiration for the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “Oklahoma!”), the theater, which opened in February 2018, is home to a monthly cabaret series: Thursdays in the Rainbow Room.
Oct 22, 2021 · “More Sky,” a one-man show about Oklahoma writer Lynn Riggs, is being presented by the Equality Center Sept. 17-18. Russ Tallchief portrays Lynn Riggs, whose work includes the play that...
Last month, the mural depicting Oklahoma-born playwright Lynn Riggs on the exterior of his namesake theater at the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center was vandalized.
Mar 9, 2023 · The Center for Queer Prairie studies examines some of the cultural contributions of 2SLGBTQ+ people like Lynn Riggs, who wrote the basis for the musical Oklahoma!, which is now a cultural institution.
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