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...
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 STEVE WONGDRAMA CRITIC Not in recent memory have I enjoyed a live production of such non-stop high energy as Centre Stage’s current musical revue Rockabilly Heaven. From the get-go when the entire nine-member cast and four-man band kicked off...
By Carol Hall Glow Lyric Theatre kicks off its 2019 Summer Festival with The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas Thursday, July 18 at The Warehouse Theatre in Greenville. Located in sleepy Gilbert, Texas, the Chicken Ranch has been operating for...
BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC Since their very first show four summers ago, Scrappy Shakespeare, Spartanburg’s only professional theater company and only outdoor Shakespeare troupe, has always infused music, original music, in its low-budget but inventive model of theatrical exploration. But...
BY JEFF LEVENE DRAMA CRITIC Winner of three 2015 Tony’s including Best Musical, Fun Home is anything but your typical chorus line, show-stopping fare. Instead it’s one of Broadway’s most intimate and heartfelt pieces to come out of 21st century...
