BY STEVE WONG DRAMA CRITIC Tears – both real and make believe – were shed during the opening weekend of the play “Southern Baptist Sissies” in Spartanburg. The tears were those of four gay and anguished young men who grew...
Proud Mary Theatre Production Still Selling Out Shows BY SANDY STAGGS Proud Mary Theatre Company’s production of “Southern Baptist Sissies” has set off a tidal wave of controversy on social media in the Upstate, though you would never know by...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC The ladies of The Mill Town Players are having their day in Pelzer. Not only is the company concluding its fourth season with the outstanding and empowering female-centric jukebox musical “Beehive: The 60s Musical,” but...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Seasoned actor and performer Celia Blitzer is accustomed to wearing Big Hair and high-rise wigs. Hailing from Maryland where she once played Tracy Turnblad in “Hairspray” IN Baltimore, Miss Blitzer is celebrating her fifth year...
Market Theatre Company’s ‘Cabaret’ is the ‘Musical of the Year’ BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC The Kit Kat Klub is now open for drinks, sizzling entertainment and … delightful debauchery. In what is hands-down the Musical of the Year (small...
Feel-good, irresistible nostalgia with a bevy of rock numbers we all know and love whether we want to admit or not! BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Sit back and feel the noize as Spartanburg Little Theatre covers the grandest classic...
