Pelzer Theatre to Launch Sister Company in Fountain Inn This Fall BY SANDY STAGGS ARTS WRITER In three brief but bountiful years, the Mill Town Players have packed the historic Pelzer Auditorium dozens of times, brought home tons of awards...
Live Coverage from the Spotlight Booth at the Chapman Cultural Center BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC & SPOTLIGHT OPERATOR for Olivia Newton-John (Anna Elyse Lewis) The musical is better than the movie. How often does a theatre critic get to...
“Next to Normal” indeed exceeds all expectations and is stocked with a fine, harmonious cast lead by Sara Tolson in her gut-wrenching, magnum opus performance. Prepare to laugh some but, by all means, bring your travel size Kleenex. BY SANDY...
BY SANDY STAGGS ARTS WRITER On this very same day last year Sara Tolson was fine-tuning her harmonies as one-third of one the greatest female music acts of all time, the Andrew Sisters, in the biographical musical “Sisters of Swing”...
BY SANDY STAGGS ARTS WRITER Jennifer Lopez fans may have to wait until 2018 to see the Latina legend in NBC’s Live production of “Bye Bye Birdie,” but Upstate audiences will get a bite of 1950s Americana next week when...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC The Greenville Little Theatre season finale “Hairspray” is undeniably a BIG hit from its gorgeous opening number “Good Morning Baltimore” ‑ one of the most beautiful openings I have seen all season long ‑ with...
