BY STEVE WONG DRAMA CRITIC Tears – both real and make believe – were shed during the opening weekend of the play “Southern Baptist Sissies” in Spartanburg. The tears were those of four gay and anguished young men who grew...
Proud Mary Theatre Production Still Selling Out Shows BY SANDY STAGGS Proud Mary Theatre Company’s production of “Southern Baptist Sissies” has set off a tidal wave of controversy on social media in the Upstate, though you would never know by...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Closing out Glow Lyric Theatre’s 8th Summer Festival Season is Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Fidelio” and this production is a triumph on all levels. Stage Director Jenna Tamisiea has transported the action in this rarely produced...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Centre Stage, for the third year in row, concludes it season by stepping back in time to the age of innocence in American pop music. Following the tradition of the Andrew Sisters biography “Sisters of...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Glow Lyric Theatre gives a whole new urgency to the term “marrying beneath you” in a delightful and most amusing production of “H.M.S. Pinafore.” With a bouncy and buoyant cast, one of Gilbert & Sullivan’s...
This is a show America needs now more than ever! BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Jenna Tamisea and Christian Elser have an uncanny sense of timing. Sure, the DACA and DREAMer dilemma has been simmering for years, but how could...
