BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC I FEEL GREAT! When DeBryant Johnson struts out to the middle of the Ambassador Bridge, strikes his best James Brown pose and declares with a wallop, “I Feel Good!”, Centre Stage’s audience knows it’s in for...
Greenville Professional Houses Season Openers Portend Stellar Year on Stage BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC Theatres on the autumn calendar put forth their best and most expensive dancing feet for their September season openers, and this year is no exception. Greenville’s...
BY JEFF LEVENEDRAMA CRITIC It’s hard to believe it’s been just a year since Greenville’s legendary choreographer Vaughn Newman opened his studio, and to celebrate one year of Vaughn Newman Dance is presenting its first public production, Here…Now, featuring six...
BY SANDY STAGGSARTS CRITIC In the same vein of the company’s longtime “DanSynergy” series, Ballet Spartanburg returns to its collaborative roots in the woman-centric “#collectiveworks,” a program of innovative contemporary dance that literally took a village to mount. Artistic Director...
BY SANDY STAGGS ARTS CRITIC Prohibition, jazz and decadence defined the Roaring Twenties. And no work of American literature encapsulates this decade more than F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby.” Now, Ballet Spartanburg closes its season with the much-anticipated original...
BY SANDY STAGGS ARTS CRITIC For its 51st opener, Ballet Spartanburg stages the first of two back-to-back Tchaikovsky ballets this season, “The Sleeping Beauty,” a delightfully regal and grand affair that Chapman Cultural Center audiences will surely behold. Based entirely...
