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Oklahoma native and three-time Tony Award nominee Kelli O’Hara will star opposite stage and screen star Matthew Broderick in the new Broadway screwball romantic comedy “Nice Work If You Can Get It,” reports the Associated Press. Producers told the AP today that O’Hara, the star of...

Oklahoma City Concerts & Shows on wimgo Today’s featured event: Hear Kid Rock, Jason Boland & the Stragglers and Leroy Powell at 7 tonight at the Zoo Amphitheatre, 2101 NE 50. For more information, go to www.zooamp.com. For more events, go to www.wimgo.com.

Pistol Annies, the feisty trio featuring Tishomingo resident Miranda Lambert, Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley, have hit the charts with guns ablazin’: The trio posted on Facebook today that its introductory album, “Hell on Heels,” is debuting at No. 1 on Billboard’s country album...

A version of this story appears in Wednesday’s Life section of The Oklahoman. Tig Notaro tries out TV, CD The standup comic is performing live Wednesday in Norman, but she also just released her first comedy album and is developing a TV show with Sarah Silverman.

Red dirt music star Stoney LaRue, who lives in Edmond, is releasing today his long-awaited new studio album “Velvet,” the follow-up to his debut studio effort, 2005′s “The Red Dirt Album.” Although he has been honing his craft onstage for 12 years, the indie musician told me in a...

Grammy Award-winning country music star Miranda Lambert, who lives in Tishomingo, was featured in a special edition of NBC’s “Dateline” that aired Monday night. The two-part interview with Hoda Kotb included Lambert’s husband and fellow country music star Blake Shelton, star of NBC’s...

Stop-motion whiz and NewsOK videographer Kyle Roberts is playing with action figures again! I love it when he does that! Football season is almost here, and The Oklahoman and NewsOK are getting ready by launching the first football stop-motion animation to use action figures.

Werner Herzog’s (“Grizzly Man”) widely praised documentary “Cave of Forgotten Dreams” has been held over by popular demand at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, where it will screen again at 5:30 and 8 p.m. Wednesday in the Noble Theater, 415 Couch Drive.

Oklahoma City rapper Josh Sallee, recently featured on the cover of LOOKatOKC, will be the first artist featured on the new season of my excellent colleague George Lang’s video series Static, and you can get in on the musical action. George and talented videographer Kyle Roberts will tape...

Red dirt music star Stoney LaRue, who lives in Edmond, is releasing today his long-awaited new studio album “Velvet,” the follow-up to his debut studio effort, 2005′s “The Red Dirt Album.” “Everybody wants a reason. I’ve been getting that a lot, like ‘why did it take so...

Bless my excellent colleague and pal George Lang of Staticblog: When he found out that I forgot to set my DVR to record St. Vincent’s performance Monday night on “The Late Show with David Letterman,” he swiftly shipped over a link to this YouTube video of the musical magnificence, which...

Norman Concerts & Shows on wimgo Today’s featured event: NORMAN – Go like a “Bat Out of Hell” to hear Meat Loaf at 8 tonight at Riverwind Casino, 1544 W State Highway 9. Information: 322-6464 or www.riverwind.com. For more events, go to www.wimgo.com.

EW.com has a free stream available today of “More Than You’ll Ever Know,” the new single from R&B vocal group Boyz II Men featuring Tulsa-bred four-time Grammy-nominated singer Charlie Wilson of GAP Band fame. “More Than You’ll Ever Know” will be released Tuesday on iTunes.

Country music star Miranda Lambert, who lives in Tishomingo, is shifting labels from Columbia Nashville to RCA Nashville as part of a restructuring at Sony Music Nashville, according to Country Aircheck. Singer-songwriter Josh Thompson, who released his 2010 debut album “Way Out Here” on...

Country superstar Brad Paisley’s duet “Remind Me,” with fellow country superstar and Checotah native Carrie Underwood has hit the No. 1 spot on both the Billboard and Country Aircheck country airplay charts this week. “Remind Me” becomes Paisley’s 20th No. 1 single and...

“The Help” swept to the top of the box-office charts for the second weekend in a row, even as many remaining East Coast theaters closed as Hurricane Irene blew through, reports the Associated Press. The movie adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s best-selling novel needed just $14.5 million to...

In a special “Dateline” airing at 9 tonight on NBC, Hoda Kotb interviews Grammy Award-winning country music star Miranda Lambert, who lives in Tishomingo. The two-part interview includes Lambert’s husband and fellow country music star Blake Shelton, star of NBC’s hit reality TV show...

Teen music sensation Greyson Chance, 14, of Edmond, will perform the National Anthem at 7:30 Eastern/6:30 Central tonight as part of the opening-night festivities of the U.S. Open, the final grand slam tennis tournament of the year. Fans can watch him perform live from Queens, N.Y., on ESPN2.

Tulsa-born singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist St. Vincent will be the musical guest tonight on “The Late Show with David Letterman,” which begins at 10:35 p.m. on CBS (KWTV-9 here in Oklahoma City). St. Vincent will perform music from her upcoming album “Strange Mercy,” due out...

Today’s featured event: Hear the Riverboat Gamblers, Off With Their Heads and Dead To Me at 7 tonight at The Conservatory, 8911 N Western. The bands are on a three-way headlining tour and will be changing the order every night. The show also will feature Over Stars And Gutters.