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...
“Lord, what fools these mortals be!” Join the Guerrilla Shakespeare Theatre Company as they dive into the fairy world with their upcoming production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This award winning theatre company brings a Shakespearian fever dream to six...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Kelly Wallace as Sister Aloysius and Maury Reed as Father Flynn in “Doubt.” Photo by Wallace Krebs Centre Stage’s first foray into fringe this year, “Doubt: A Parable” by John Patrick Shanley, sets a high...
Two Upstate companies swept the competition at the South Carolina Theatre Association’s Community Theatre Festival this past weekend at the organization’s annual conference held this year at Anderson University. The Mill Town Players’ production of “Romeo and Juliet” and Guerrilla...
By Steve Wong Drama Critic If you’ve only seen the 1975 cinema version of “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest,” you might be a little underwhelmed by Centre Stage’s current production of this American classic. But for theatre purists, it...
