The organization, governed by an elected board of directors, followed a repertory model in presenting a summer festival program of musicals and comic opera.
The company was founded by John and Jane Everett in 1983 as a non-profit community theater called The Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Tulsa.
[3] Reviewing My Fair Lady in 2009, Urban Tulsa Weekly wrote, "LOOK consistently delivers fantastic performances, year after year, during the Tulsa Performing Arts Center's SummerStage Festival....
[2] Some of the early productions were directed by John Reed, a former principal comedian with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.
In 1997, it began to expand its repertory, presenting Little Mary Sunshine as well as Princess Ida.