Handel’s Mystical Opera Blows the Roof off Daniel Hall’s Ice Palace BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC If you have ever attended a performance at Daniel Recital Hall at Converse College, you should be well-acclimated to the glorious acoustics and the mighty...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC The chandelier in “Phantom.” The Barricade in “Les Misérables.” The swimming pool in “Sunset Boulevard.” These are iconic special effects and set piece spectacles that audiences have come to expect from the blockbuster musicals of...
Carolina Curtain Call’s Critics’ Picks of the 2017-18 Theatre Season (September 1, 2017 – August 30, 2018) VOTING INFO COMING SOON! The Upstate is so fortunate to be a Mecca of theatre and this list by two of our critics...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Closing out Glow Lyric Theatre’s 8th Summer Festival Season is Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Fidelio” and this production is a triumph on all levels. Stage Director Jenna Tamisiea has transported the action in this rarely produced...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Glow Lyric Theatre gives a whole new urgency to the term “marrying beneath you” in a delightful and most amusing production of “H.M.S. Pinafore.” With a bouncy and buoyant cast, one of Gilbert & Sullivan’s...
This is a show America needs now more than ever! BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Jenna Tamisea and Christian Elser have an uncanny sense of timing. Sure, the DACA and DREAMer dilemma has been simmering for years, but how could...
