BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC The Upstate Theatre scene has always been a close-knit community, often sharing artists, props, costumes, scenic elements, and since 2019, auditions. Companies have even collaborated on shows in the past (i.e. Mary Poppins in Greenwood/Abbeville) But...
BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC After seeing several local versions of jukebox musicals this summer in which the music outscored the story (Mamma Mia!, Head Over Heels, and We Will Rock You) Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The...
By John JeterGuest Writer To attempt creating, let alone staging, an opera about a 14-year-old Black boy’s execution requires near superhuman artistic power—along with heaping doses of audacity or guts. More likely, Frances Pollack, the young composer of “Stinney: An...
By Zoe OliphantGuest Writer “What does it mean to be a man in the eyes of God?” What does it mean to be a man in the eyes of men? Are the perceptions of the image that these two entities...
BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC Do not miss Sunday’s final performance (2 pm_ of Stinney: An American Execution, a powerful, thought-provoking, new opera that is most timely and confronts our own state’s history of racial injustice. George Junius Stinney Jr. (played...
BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC Mamma Mia! is one of those rare shows that actors gravitate to and audiences absolutely devour, as they are currently at Greenville Theatre in a magnificent production (4 out of 4 Stars) running through June 26....
