Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, District 7 Fine Arts Center on the Spartanburg High Campus, Tickets: $5 adults/$1 students (cash at the door), Showtimes Friday 10/7 at 7pm, Saturday 10/7 at 1pm and 7pm. In District 7, musicals have been a...
BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC The names, occupations, settings and supernatural explanations may have changed among the four Walt Disney film adaptations, and now musical at Spartanburg Youth Theatre, of Mary Rodgers’ popular children’s book, Freaky Friday. But the general concept...
BY LOU BUTTINODRAMA CRITIC The must-see historical documentary/dramatic play, The Laramie Project, began streaming Tueday. Presented by Proud Mary Theatre Company, South Carolina’s only LGBTQ+ Theatre, it is an engrossing example of the “found poetry,” or “found text” form of...
BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC Matilda: The Musical based on Roald Dahl’s book is the hottest new property on the market this year. With two high-profile community theatre productions in the Upstate since last summer, Dorman High School theatre’s winter version...
Upstate theatre was well represented this past weekend at the 53rd Annual South Carolina Theatre Association Annual Convention culminating with a near-total sweep by Market Theatre Company at the Community Theatre Festival. After ending their original run on the Market...
Opening July 17, with a fund-raising gala at the Tryon Fine Arts Center, Tryon Summer Youth Theater’s “Matilda the Musical” is high energy, packed full of rousing songs and great choreography, and has its quota of villains and good guys—promising...
