BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC The longest-running play in Broadway history makes its Upstate company premiere on the glorious stage at, where else? Greenville Theatre. The play within the play (do not miss the double playbill wihin the playbill) is directed...
Parents Act Like Children in Flat Rock Playhouse’s Black Box Production BY STEVE WONGDRAMA CRITIC When you open the cage and let out a domesticated animal into the wild, it might adapt to survive, get eaten by a bigger animal,...
BY STEVE WONGDRAMA CRITIC Flat Rock Playhouse has a knack for making the old seem new again, and its production of the classic Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner is the perfect example of how a good story told well is...
BY STEVE WONGDRAMA CRITIC Jocose: An adjective. To be playful or humorous. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee now playing at The Warehouse Theatre in Greenville is jocose because every character is quirky with lots of personality under duress....
BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC After seeing several local versions of jukebox musicals this summer in which the music outscored the story (Mamma Mia!, Head Over Heels, and We Will Rock You) Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The...
By John JeterGuest Writer To attempt creating, let alone staging, an opera about a 14-year-old Black boy’s execution requires near superhuman artistic power—along with heaping doses of audacity or guts. More likely, Frances Pollack, the young composer of “Stinney: An...
