BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC Anyone who experienced the exhilarating, jaw-dropping antics in “The Play That Goes Wrong,” this season’s touring Broadway play at the Peace Center, knows that masterful hilarity was inspired by “Noises Off,” Michael Frayn’s classic farce now...
Shakespeare’s Classics Ring in a Quarter Century of Free Performing Arts in Greenville 56 shows, over 450 performers / volunteers, and 2 dogs later, the Upstate Shakespeare Festival celebrates 25 years of providing free family entertainment to the city of...
BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC Clemson Little Theatre dives into the joys and pitfalls of having, rearing and nurturing in today’s hectic digital landscape in its brand new musical “Rated P for Parenthood,” a sweet, sometimes crass, but always sardonically truthful,...
BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC Beth Henley’s “Crimes of the Heart” “really is a comedy.” Katie Halstensgard and her castmates had to continually remind themselves with this mantra during rehearsals of the Mill Town Players’ latest production, despite the play’s serious...
BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC Clemson Little Theatre has yet another hit in its midst with the desert oasis comedy “Doublewide, Texas” written by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope and Jamie Wooten, the same team that conceived the warm , sentimental chick-dramedy...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Continuity is a winsome asset for Mill Town Players. Chameleons Will Ragland and Shane Willimon dazzled Pelzer audiences in “Greater Tuna” and reunited a year later for “A Tuna Christmas.” Country and rockabilly chanteuse Katie...
