 Tulsa contains several permanent dance , theater , and concert groups , including the Tulsa Ballet , the Tulsa Opera , the Tulsa Symphony Orchestra , Light Opera Oklahoma , Signature Symphony at TCC , the Tulsa Youth Symphony , the Heller Theatre , American Theatre Company , which is a member of the Theatre Communications Group and Oklahoma 's oldest resident professional theatre , and Theatre Tulsa , the oldest continuously operating community theatre company west of the Mississippi River . Tulsa also houses the Tulsa Spotlight Theater at Riverside Studio , which shows the longest @-@ running play in America ( The Drunkard ) every Saturday night . Many of the world 's best choreographers have worked with Tulsa Ballet including : Leonide Massine , Antony Tudor , Jerome Robbins , George Balanchine , Paul Taylor , Kurt Jooss , Nacho Duato ( ten works ) , Val Caniparoli who is its resident choreographer ( with seven works and four world premieres ) , Stanton Welch , Young Soon Hue , Ma Cong , Twyla Tharp and many others . In its first international tour in 2002 , Tulsa Ballet was declared by the Portuguese national magazine Semanario “ One of the best in the world . ” The company has received two feature articles in Dance Magazine during the past seven years , has been featured in the New York Times , Pointe Magazine and Dance Europe among others . In March 2008 , Tulsa Ballet was featured on the cover of Pointe magazine- a distinction given to only one ballet company each year . In April 2008 , Tulsa Ballet completed an ambitious $ 17 @.@ 3 million integrated campaign , which was celebrated at the opening of the brand new Studio K ; an on @-@ site , three hundred @-@ seat performance space dedicated to the creation of new works . 
