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Alicia Chesser

Alicia Chesser is the managing editor of The Pickup. She's been writing about the arts in Tulsa for two decades. When she's not at someone else's show, she makes and teaches contemporary dance and messes around with creative nonfiction.

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Bradford Lovett Collages A Queer Future Full Of Rowdy Joy

The fags are in ecstasy in the solo show "Myths & Hymns"

March 31, 2024
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ASL Sensor Gloves As Musical Instrument And Other Observations From David Alan Broome’s ‘Musical Science Theater’

An overflow crowd gets out to get weird

March 12, 2024
Culture

Jazz Millions And Beyond

Thirty years in, Jacob Fred is still rolling in the funk.

March 10, 2024
Culture

Oklahoma Fashion Alliance Wants To Hear (And See) Your Story

March 10, 2024
Reviews

Theatre North Brings The Heat, The Light & All The Right Questions

Every win comes with a hidden loss in Suzan Lori-Parks' "Topdog/Underdog"

February 29, 2024
Culture

Tulsa Opera Is Hitting The Big Notes

Did we just witness the first in-character artist/audience fist bump in Tulsa Opera history?

February 18, 2024
Reviews

Tulsa Opera’s Valentine’s Musical Theatre Adventure Hits The Big Notes

Did we just witness the first artist/audience fist bump in Tulsa Opera history?

February 16, 2024
Culture

Amy Sanders de Melo Is Translating Tulsans’ Stories Into A Universal Language

Her new exhibition at Positive Space invites contributions from Tulsans living on the margins of society.

January 14, 2024
Culture

Amy Sanders De Melo Is Translating Tulsans’ Stories Into A Universal Language

An artist with vision and hearing loss sculpts the spectrum of belonging felt by those whose experience is so often untranslatable in an ableist society. 

January 14, 2024
Culture

A Master Class In The Art Of Craft 

The State of Craft took me from paper, clay and thread to questions like: How does the world hold together?

January 7, 2024
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