Where do you go when you want to witness something unusual? Nightingale Theatre, that's where... home of Tulsa's Midwestern Theatre Troupe, the only local company who dares to regularly tackle works by new and emerging playwrights. (Urban Tulsa)
This is the back door to the Theater, so to speak, a casual entrance to the Best Little Theater on Fourth Street. The only Theater on Fourth Street, actually. If you'd prefer to use our more formal entrance, visit http://www.nightingaletheater.com
If you're new to the Nightingale, we offer the following select quotes as an introduction. We love it when others toot our collective horn.
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Notorious for presenting raw, unapologetic theatre (Urban Tulsa, 03/26/08)
This theater and company of actors host and perform the edgiest theatre in Tulsa. You won’t see anything like it anywhere else in town, promise. (Urban Tulsa, 07/19/07)
You go to the Nightingale to see something you've never seen before, and likely wouldn't otherwise, to laugh, to squirm, to feel nervous, to think (Urban Tulsa, 06/27/07)
Well-known around these parts for its unique and edgy short-form, high-impact brand of theatre... pushing the envelope with everything they do (Urban Tulsa, 06/13/07)
Completely provocative and totally unafraid. No subject is taboo (Urban Tulsa, 02/07/07)
Preferring art over money, these groups [Midwestern Theater Troupe and the Nightingale Theater] are consistently producing edgy, ground-breaking material (Urban Tulsa, 01/03/07)
"Safe" theater has never been an attribute of the Nightingale (Tulsa World, 10/04/06)
By far Tulsa's most daring theatre enterprise (Urban Tulsa, 07/20/06)
Presenting original and oftentimes bizarre works (Tulsa World, 04/02/06)
The only local company who dares to regularly tackle works by new and emerging playwrights (Urban Tulsa, 07/21/05)
Tulsa's home for unconventional entertainment (Tulsa World, 03/14/05)
Controversially fun; a flashpoint for new theater productions; charming, art-driven idealism (Urban Tulsa, 02/24/2005)
Something original, something frightening, something hilarious and something completely different - that's Nightingale Theater in a nutshell. (Tulsa World, 10/29/04)
Presenting theater that you won't see anywhere else in Tulsa. (Tulsa World, 9/15/04)
Keeping theatre alive (Urban Tulsa, 1/15/04)
Enough freaks to make Tod Browning proud (Tulsa World, 9/8/02)
They take their playtime pretty seriously. (Tulsa World, 8/5/01)
Offering the area's prime avant-garde venue (Tulsa World, 6/22/01)
Ever striving for a unique theatrical offering for Tulsans (Tulsa World, 11/13/97)
An investment in your future (Tulsa World, 6/24/1995)