The Plaids and their glorious four-part harmonies are back in Pelzer just in time for Christmas. These four young men who perished in an accident with a bus and returned to earth for one final hilarious evening of musical inspiration...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC FIREside Radio, the Upstate’s only radio theatre company, ushered in the yuletide season Friday with its fifth annual “Rockin’ Radio Christmas Revue” at the Younts Center for the Performing Arts. Directed and hosted by Artistic...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Although he will indelibly be known as the genius behind the “The Music Man,” Meredith Willson also created “The Unsinkable Molly Brown” and a little-known holiday musical based on the perennial yuletide film “Miracle on...
BY JEFF LEVENE CONTRIBUTING CRITIC Encompassing all the South has to offer in Christmas festivities, including the yuletide rockabilly of Texas roadhouses, the bluegrass holiday celebrations in Appalachia, with pit stops in Memphis’s gospel halls and the showmanship of Nashville’s...
The snow is falling, the lights are all strung and the stockings are hung. Yes, the holiday arts season boards Santa’s sleigh officially on Thursday, December 1 as dozens of yuletide-themed plays, musicals, chorales, ballets and symphonies don their ugliest...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC It may be time to return that black witch’s hat for a Santa stocking. It’s already snowing in Anderson as the South Carolina School of the Arts skips Halloween and Thanksgiving forthright with the musical...
