You Won’t Regret It! BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC The much-anticipated regional premiere at Centre Stage, “MAMMA MIA!” is ecstatic escapism at its best and backed by a solid gold soundtrack of some two dozen smash electro-pop ditties from the...
BY SANDY STAGGS ARTS WRITER Glow Lyric Theatre’s summer season triple-bill is still some five months away, but patrons can still take in the company’s cavalcade of talent in its year-round Raising Voices series. This year’s series of concerts kicks...
BY JEFF LEVENE DRAMA CRITIC The sharp blaze of light, a shot of pyrotechnics, and a blast of that iconic haunting organ that illuminate a precariously dangling chandelier. An illustrious ballroom surrounded by gargantuan mirrors and gothic era statues. An...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC On a winter’s day, I stopped into a historic auditorium and I pretend to pray. Because miracles need not apply to the Mill Town Players’ new instant classic hit show built around Malibu sunshine and...
BY SANDY STAGGS ARTS CRITIC From those four iconic opening notes in Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony in September to Saturday night’s triumphant Boom-Pow-Boom coda in Tchaikovsky’s “Symphony No. 4,” Spartanburg Philharmonic Orchestra’s ProjectMaestro has been a sight and sound to behold...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC As performer Javy Pagan says in the opening of Centre Stage’s wildly-popular music show, “Rockin’ the Keys” is no “drama, comedy, farce or even musical theatre,” but a two-hour journey through some of the biggest...
