BY STEVE WONGDRAMA CRITIC There was a lot of love on stage during Greenville Theatre’s gala celebration of being the Upstate’s oldest and largest producing playhouse for 96 years. Gala 96: A Broadway Love Story was a glitzy and glamorous...
BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC Converse Opera Theatre emerges back from Covid shutdown with a glossy, opulent Hansel and Gretel, the Petrie School of Music’s first full-scale production since the campus was re-branded as co-ed Converse University. And this opera is...
Carolina Curtain Call congratulates a great artist and friend, Jenna Elser, artistic director of Glow Lyric Theatre in Greenville, for winning of The American Prize in DIRECTING—The Charles Nelson Reilly Prize (theater/musical theater division), 2021, for “West Side Story”. And this is after Glow was just awarded...
BY STEVE WONGDRAMA CRITIC There’s a new COVID playlist in Greenville, and lyrical theatre Glow is rocking it out through Aug. 29 at the Kroc Center. Rock Opera is one of three shows that are currently running simultaneously in the...
Glow Lyric Theatre emerges from Covid-shutdown this Thursday live at the Kroc Center in Greenville with the riotous Rock Opera in an all-original sizzling and safe 2021 summer season. An amalgam of modern music with operatic inflexions, Rock Opera, the...
BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC UPDATE: Final Two shows Sunday, June 13 @ 3 & 7 pm! As Broadway and Upstate performing arts organizations gear up to re-open for indoor shows after some 15 months in the dark, Tryon Shakespeare &...