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 experiments with performance and creative nonfiction.
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Pembroke Players Are Crushing It
When you think about Jane Austen for 13 years, this is the Pride & Prejudice you get.
Big Bite Returns (With A Side Of Ranch)
Oklahoma’s chefs, brewers, and mixologists came through with offerings that ranged from sexy to hearty to refreshing.
Slipstreaming Through Oklahoma’s Black And Indigenous Multiverse
"Let’s take off this jacket of the past and put on a new one. We’re growing. We can’t fit it anymore.”
Tulsa Opera Is Hitting The Big Notes
Did we just witness the first in-character artist/audience fist bump in Tulsa Opera history?
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.
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.