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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.

They Should’ve Let Me Call In Sick After Watching “Hamnet” 

A dark, quiet showing of the film at Circle Cinema was exactly what its subject matter called for

December 11, 2025

The Deliciously Unsettling Power of Clayton Keyes’ ‘Subterfuge’

The ceramics exhibition at 108|Contemporary explored complex ideas with both frankness and subtlety

December 5, 2025

Crawl To The Year’s Finish Line With These December Art Shows

What even is reality?? Ask a Tulsa artist this holiday season

December 3, 2025

Tulsa Picks: The Week’s Best Tulsa Events, December 3-December 9

First Friday, The Nutcracker, a concert at Tyler Thrasher's Materia shop, and insane amounts of Yuletide cheer

December 2, 2025

Dante’s Is Going Brick-And-Mortar

The beloved pizza-slinging operation plans to move into new digs in SoBo.

November 25, 2025

Tulsa Picks: The Week’s Best Tulsa Events, November 26-December 2

Road races, extra meals and more in this very Thanksgiving edition of Tulsa Picks.

November 25, 2025

With “The Seagull,” Tulsa Gets Another Classic Play Well Done

Little Shop of Productions brought renewed reverence and relevance to the 1896 Chekov play

November 24, 2025

After Nearly Six Years, Kendall-Whittier’s The Studio Will Close 

The creative space, which sprouted out of the pandemic, gave artists of all kinds a space in which to work