Riverside Studio
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Riverside Studio
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| Location | 1381 Riverside Dr., Tulsa, Oklahoma |
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| Built | 1928 |
| Architect | Goff, Bruce |
| Architectural style | International Style |
| MPS | Bruce Goff Designed Resources in Oklahoma MPS |
| NRHP Reference # | 01000656[1] |
| Added to NRHP | June 14, 2001 |
The Riverside Studio in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, also known as Tulsa Spotlight Club or Spotlight Theatre, was built in 1928. It was designed by architect Bruce Goff in International Style. It was built as a house with a studio wing for a music teacher named Patti Adams Shriner.[2] The Riverside Studio was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 2001.[1]
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.[3] Facing financial distress during the Great Depression, Shriner lost her ownership of the building in 1933. Actor Richard Mansfield Dickinson bought it in 1941.[4][5]
Since 1953, Dickinson's Tulsa Spotlight Club has used the building to present his adaptation of the 19th-century temperance melodrama The Drunkard. In 2013, actor-director Joe Sears, best known for his co-creation of the Greater Tuna stage trilogy (and for the Tony nomination he received in 1985 for his performance in A Tuna Christmas[6]), took charge as the production's new director.[7] 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.[8]
See also
References
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- ↑ Holly Wall, "Lost Olinka", This Land, September 20, 2011.
- ↑ Kirby Davis, "These Walls: Spotlight Theatre in Tulsa", The Journal Record, May 13, 2010.
- ↑ http://spotlighttheater.org/AboutUs.asp
- ↑ Joe Sears at Internet Broadway Database.
- ↑ James D. Watts, Jr., "Joe Sears of 'Tuna' fame is new director of Spotlight Theatre's 'Drunkard'", Tulsa World, June 20, 2013.
- ↑ Regan Henson, "In On The Act", Oklahoma Magazine, January 2012.
External links
- 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
- Spotlight Theater Tulsa website history
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