About
What history tells us.
What art shows us.
What community makes possible.
Many Americans are sitting with a feeling they can't quite name. It's not quite fear. Not quite anger. It's something closer to disorientation — the sense that the country you thought you understood is becoming something you don't recognize.
That feeling has a history. And art has been documenting it for a century.
How The F Did We Get Here? brings that documentation to life — on stage, in community, in Tulsa.
How The F Did We Get Here? is a series of theatre productions, film screenings, book events, and community conversations — each one a lens through which to examine political power, propaganda, authoritarianism, and the resilience of ordinary people. These plays were written in other countries, in other decades. They are mirrors.
This is not a partisan project. That's not the point and it's not the frame. The point is to understand the patterns — the ones history keeps repeating, and the ones art helps us recognize before it's too late.
Every production is co-presented with a Tulsa theatre partner — not as a logistical convenience, but as a statement. The arts community of Tulsa chose to stand together on this work. The antidote to anxious isolation isn't more scrolling. It's a room full of people, a story that matters, and the conversation that follows.
What this is
Art that illuminates history
A way to understand the political forces reshaping American life
A community conversation — not a political rally
Theatre, film, books, and music working together
A patriotic experience, grounded in love of democracy
A multi-year saga with a beginning, middle, and arc
What this is not
Programming tied to any political party or figure
A lecture — it's an experience
Named after or connected to any contemporary political figure
A one-time event — it's a multi-year saga
This is, above everything else,
a patriotic experience.
Grounded in love of democracy, love of community, and the belief that art has always been how Americans find their footing in uncertain times.
These times are not eternal. Nor are they inevitable.