Behind the Curtain with Founders Christian Elser and Jenna Tamisiea BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC #questionauthority Remember that hashtag. You’ll be seeing it a lot this summer as Glow Lyric Theatre embarks on its 9th season in an exciting and...
CAROLINA CURTAIN CALL STAFF REPORT Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, and while many starry eyed lovers are ready for pink emblazoned heart shaped candy boxes and intimate candle lit dinners. For many in the Upstate, the holiday is...
STAFF REPORT While diversity should always be one of the major pillars in artistic principles, too often we find our stages, be they local, regional, or streaming live from the Oscars, lacking true representation of our communities, let alone...
The snow is falling, the lights are all strung and the stockings are hung. Yes, the holiday arts season boards Santa’s sleigh officially on Thursday, December 1 as dozens of yuletide-themed plays, musicals, chorales, ballets and symphonies don their ugliest...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Spartanburg Repertory Opera launched its 29th season last night at the Chapman Cultural Center with a sweeping and rousing array of great chorus numbers spanning some 265 years. Formerly the Spartanburg Repertory Company, SRO reunited...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC GLOW Lyric Theatre, South Carolina’s only professional opera company, launched its Summer Season this week with two vastly different adaptations of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”: the definitive operatic version, Gounod’s 1867 “Roméo et Juliette,” and...
