The Oklahoma Today Podcast, August 21, 2023

Mark Blakeman, executive director of the McKnight Center for the Performing Arts in Stillwater, stops by to talk with editors Nate and Greg on this week’s podcast. First opened in the autumn of 2019, the McKnight Center followed a COVID-abbreviated first season with an increasingly regular slate of knockout performances.

This year’s season is the best yet, says Blakeman, with upcoming shows from Scotty McCreery, the New York Philharmonic, Chris Botti, and Broadway musicals Pretty Woman, Come From Away, and Book of Mormon.

Finding the right balance is hard, but it’s a worthwhile endeavor, he says, especially when so many of the visiting artists go beyond stage performances to teach new generations of actors, singers, and musicians at the McKnight Center and with Stillwater Public Schools students.

Also on this week’s podcast, the editors take a crack at Barbie-mania and hear from a massive number of commenters from social media in Question of the Week. Follow Oklahoma Today on [Facebooknd [Instagramo take part in the conversation.

Podvents from this episode come, as always, from TravelOK.com. Here's what the editors discussed:

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