BY SANDY STAGGSARTS WRITER The Peace Center will be transformed into a tropical paradise this week with audience members traipsing and frolicking on the sandy beach stage for a fairy tale retelling with some powerful statements about class relations. The...
Mill Town Players present the South Carolina premiere of Bright Star, Inspired by a real event and featuring the Grammy-nominated score by Steven Martin and Edie Brickell. Broadway’s Bright Star tells a sweeping tale of love and redemption set against the rich...
BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC Glow Lyric Theatre kicks off its 2019 “Raising Voices” series May 6-7 with the world premiere of a new musical work by Upstate songstress Jessica Eckenrod that examines the journeys of women throughout history, and the...
BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC There is a world premiere, and then there is a “new” play. Furman University Theatre students have the rich understanding of the difference as they receive a master class level experience with a brand new drama...
BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC You will swear you have heard these songs before, says Pump Boy Mark Spung-Wiles of the country rock score of “Pump Boys and Dinettes, the newest musical opening this weekend at Mill Town Players in Pelzer....
BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC Beth Henley’s “Crimes of the Heart” “really is a comedy.” Katie Halstensgard and her castmates had to continually remind themselves with this mantra during rehearsals of the Mill Town Players’ latest production, despite the play’s serious...
