World Stage Theatre Company: “Ages of the Moon”
World Stage Studio
April 17 & 18, 2025 (performances run through April 27)
I don’t get men. There are myriad reasons for this; I’m sure you can imagine a few. So, when I saw that World Stage Theatre Company was producing Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard’s Ages of the Moon—a play about men, starring two men, written by a man whose work often dealt with masculinity—I wrote it in my calendar in pen. I wanted to learn something.
And, because the play was double-cast, with two pairs of actors doing alternating performances, I decided to see it twice.
Seeing a show at World Stage’s storefront theatre at 11th and Harvard is like seeing a show at your grandmother’s house during a family reunion. The front room is filled with eclectic furnishings where attendees, the technical crew and World Stage board members chat and sip drinks while they wait for the show to start. For those who know someone in the theatre community, it’s very Tulsa: every time you decide it’s time to find your seat, someone else you know walks in, or you’re introduced to someone new through a mutual friend. This, of course, prompts further conversation, and the process repeats until you really have to go sit down.
World Stage Studio, photobomb by Angela McLaughlin | photo by Alex Isaak