BY SANDY STAGGS ARTS CRITIC Prohibition, jazz and decadence defined the Roaring Twenties. And no work of American literature encapsulates this decade more than F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby.” Now, Ballet Spartanburg closes its season with the much-anticipated original...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC There’s no place like Dorman. There’s no place like Dorman. There’s no place like Dorman. This mantra will likely be felt, if not spoken, all weekend as Spartanburg School District 6 and the Dorman Theatre...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC When the bridegroom wakes up with one heck of a hangover and a strange woman in the honeymoon suite on the morning before his nuptials, Greenville Little Theatre audiences know they are in for “Perfect...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC In his swan song with the Shoestring Players, retiring Director of Theatre Jimm Cox helmed his final show this past weekend “London Road,” a phantasmagorical, avant-garde musical that is unlike any show this critic has...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Spartanburg Middle School, not generally known for its theatre program, got a much-needed boost from English teacher Teresa Barney this weekend in its first full theater production in its 11-year history as a charter school...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Just as Shakespeare so eloquently lays out in his Prologue the fate of the doomed teen lovers in “Romeo and Juliet,” we are warned up front that things will end badly in “Capture Now,” the...
