BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC As usual, it’s the college theatres that are pushing boundaries, for better or worse, with contemporary tales in an amalgam of teenage angst and the macabre. On the heels of the horror-film spoof “Evil Dead:...
BY SANDY STAGGS ARTS WRITER The Spartanburg Youth Theatre begins its 2017-18 season with a real perky porker in a untangled web of heroics and friendship. That’s right, that original pet pig Wilbur is back with his friend Charlotte the...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC You know the story. A group of horny teenagers loaded down with hot dogs, liquor and condoms spend their spring break in a haunted cabin in the woods and die horrible, violent, gory and bloody...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC As patrons somberly filed out of the Peace Center after the opening of “Fun Home,” there wasn’t a dry eye in the house. That’s because this musical is exquisite, emotional, enthralling, endearing and unorthodox in...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Once upon a time, there were three little girls who wanted to be county music stars. And they were each assigned very mundane duties in life. But Will Ragland took them away from all of...
‘Clybourne Park’ is a timely and tantalizing work that transcends the issues of racism and community in a most clever, poignant and bountiful manner. BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC For its 44th season opener, The Warehouse Theatre unleashes a timely...
