World Stage: Dear Evan Hansen

World Stage Theatre Company invites Tulsa audiences to experience the powerful and deeply moving musical Dear Evan Hansen, running October 30 through November 8, 2026, at the World Stage Storefront Studio, 1130 S. Harvard Avenue in Tulsa.

Winner of six Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Dear Evan Hansen explores the universal desire to be understood, accepted and connected. With its unforgettable music and emotionally resonant story, the production asks important questions about loneliness, friendship, family, identity and the lengths people sometimes go to in order to feel that they belong.

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A Tale of Two Cults

The vaccine wars have produced two rival orthodoxies, and neither tolerates doubt or dissent.

It was the best of public health, it was the worst of public health. It was the age of molecular medicine and the age of magical thinking, the spring of Warp Speed and the winter of mandates. We were promised herd immunity. Instead, we lost public trust.

Charles Dickens wrote the original version about London and Paris in 1859, but his “superlative degree” describes the American argument over vaccines remarkably well. One camp insists that every licensed vaccine is safe and effective and that children should receive the recommended schedule. The opposing camp increasingly argues that vaccines cause more harm than the diseases they prevent. Both have little tolerance for doubt. Both have their authorities, articles of faith, heretics and financial interests.

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OEM Director Vest Appreciation

Governor Stitt Tuesday thanked Oklahoma Emergency Management (OEM) Director Annie Mack Vest as she announced her return to the private sector.

“Annie redefined emergency response and disaster management,” said Governor Stitt. “She turned around an agency overburdened by bureaucracy and streamlined relief for Oklahomans. She built lasting relationships with federal partners and non-profit relief groups to make sure Oklahomans had the resources they needed when tragedy strikes. She leaves the agency in a great place, and I’m grateful for her service to the state.”

Oklahoma Emergency Management Director Annie Mack Vest
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Report on Garland Memo Released

Records show the Biden White House and Justice Department pushed for a federal “hook” to prosecute parents and charge those protesting lockdown mandates and deviancy in schools with federal crimes.

October 5, the Justice Department’s Weaponization Working Group issued a report detailing how Biden Administration officials at the Department of Justice explored avenues to prosecute parents and protestors who spoke to school boards and school officials.

The report focuses on the production and circulation of an October 4, 2021 memorandum sent from Attorney General Merrick Garland to the Director of the FBI, the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division, the Director of the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, and United States Attorneys.

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Invader Assaulted Nashville Minor

Jerson Diaz-Diaz, a 22-year-old criminal invader from Honduras, was arrested and charged on September 23 with statutory rape and sexual exploitation of a minor. He allegedly admitted in police interviews that he lied about his age to a 15-year-old girl, claiming he was 16, so that he could sexually assault her.

Jerson Diaz-Diaz is charged with statutory rape and sexual exploitation
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