Tulsa Spotlight Theater
Tulsa Spotlight Theater (performs inside Riverside Studio) | |
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| Location | 1381 Riverside Dr., Tulsa, Oklahoma |
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| Coordinates | 36°6′44″N 95°59′47″W / 36.11222°N 95.99639°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1928 |
| Architect | Goff, Bruce |
| Architectural style | International Style |
| MPS | Bruce Goff Designed Resources in Oklahoma MPS |
| NRHP reference No. | 01000656[1] |
| Added to NRHP | June 14, 2001 |
Tulsa Spotlight Theater located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, claims to host the longest running play in North America, The Drunkard & Olio, with the first performance on November 14, 1953. The play has been performed almost every Saturday night for six decades, and the company claims it to be the longest-running stage production in America.[2] The 19th-century temperance melodrama The Drunkard has been performed virtually every Saturday night since November 14, 1953. [3]
Spotlight Theatre Tulsa performs The Drunkard at actor Richard Mansfield Dickinson's former home on Riverside Drive.[4] Dickenson's home was built in 1928, and the home is known as Riverside Studio, whereas the acting company performing inside the home is known as Tulsa Spotlight Theater.
Riverside Studio in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, was built in 1928. It was built as a house with a studio wing for a music teacher named Patti Adams Shriner.[5] The Riverside Studio was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 2001.[1]It was designed by architect Bruce Goff in International Style.
The house originally included a series of nine murals that Goff commissioned from Oklahoma artist Olinka Hrdy, but the murals later disappeared from the building; their fate has never been established clearly.[6] Facing financial distress during the Great Depression, Shriner lost her ownership of the building in 1933. Actor Richard Mansfield Dickinson bought it in 1941.[7]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Regan Henson, "In On The Act", Oklahoma Magazine, January 2012.
- ^ http://spotlighttheater.org/AboutUs.htm
- ^ http://spotlighttheater.org/AboutUs.htm
- ^ "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Riverside Studio" (Document). 2001.
{{cite document}}: Cite document requires|publisher=(help); Unknown parameter|accessdate=ignored (help); Unknown parameter|url=ignored (help) - ^ Holly Wall, "Lost Olinka", This Land, September 20, 2011.
- ^ Kirby Davis, "These Walls: Spotlight Theatre in Tulsa", The Journal Record, May 13, 2010.
External links
edit- NRHP nom and accompanying photos
- "The History of our building at 1381 Riverside Drive", Tulsa Spotlight Theatre
- Tulsa Spotlight Theater website for Tulsa performing arts
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