Built 1928 Opened 1928 Added to NRHP 14 June 2001 | NRHP Reference # 01000656 Architectural style International Style | |
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Website www.spotlighttheater.org MPS Bruce Goff Designed Resources in Oklahoma MPS Similar Southwestern Bell Main Dial Build, Eleventh Street Arkansas, Oklahoma Natural Gas Com, Dawson School, Tulsa Fire Alarm Building | ||
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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. The Riverside Studio was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
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. Facing financial distress during the Great Depression, Shriner lost her ownership of the building in 1933. Actor Richard Mansfield Dickinson bought it in 1941.
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), took charge as the production's new director. 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.