Shakespeare in an Image

While I was at Starbucks with Emily this past Saturday, I saw this striking image used in a poster for the Reduxion Theatre Company’s production of Shakespeare’s Tarantino-esque Titus Andronicus:

That pretty much sums up the play, doesn’t it?

(Though I think this production may actually be a ballet; the production notes aren’t clear but the rehearsal pictures clearly show folks a’leapin‘ everywhere. Sorry but I don’t want no fancy dancin‘ with my Shakespeare.)

I don’t know if a local company did the poster – it seems more slick and professional than you’d expect for Oklahoma City but you never know – but bravo to them for creating an eye-catching poster that cuts through the clutter and tells me exactly what I need to know about the play.

Moore Dinner Theater Well-Kept Secret |

Whenever I’m hauling Emily and her friends around on Friday night and I pass this place, the parking lot is always jammed. What’s going on?

Nostalgia is thick at the Yellow Rose, from the retro marquee out front and the period travel posters in the lobby to the palm trees and sequined curtains inside the state’s only full-time dinner theater. Whether it’s a Motown musical review, drama, Western, gangster play or redneck wedding comedy, the Yellow Rose is focused squarely on times past, said Chris Colley, associate director and an actor.

Good for them.