BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC The Warehouse Theatre’s Upstate Shakespeare Festival under the tutelage of Producing Director John Fagan spins a valiant and thoroughly engrossing and entertaining “The Winter’s Tale” for its 24th summer season opener in Falls Park on...
Spartanburg’s Proud Mary Theatre Company and 19 other arts, science, and humanities organizations and seven local artists were officially awarded grants totaling $621,200 by Chapman Cultural Center, the leading local arts agency in Spartanburg County, at a public ceremony on...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Nuclear secrets, espionage, a murder and love conspire for a delectable evening of hilarity and chaos in Centre Stage’s period dramedy “Red Herring.” Combing the tropes of noir detective stories, Hitchcock films and spy novels,...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Two well to-do couples have a civil meeting to discuss an altercation that occurred earlier in the day between their two 11-year-old boys, Benjamin and Henry, which left the latter with two broken teeth. What...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC The 2007 indie hit film “Waitress” by Adrienne Shelly may seem, at first bite, an unlikely choice for a musical. The setting is contemporary, the characters are working class and the plot is prosaic....
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Spartanburg Little Theatre ends its 2017-18 regular season with a faithful and endearing production of the venerable classic “Guys and Dolls.” In the works for well over a year, this old fashioned musical experience invokes...
