Centre Stage has a Million Dollar hit in its midst with the foot-stomping “Million Dollar Quartet” as four legends are brought to life by an affable array of first-rate musicians who excel at showmanship and panache. BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA...
Soprano Jeanette Simpson (center) sings the role of Abigail Williams in “The Crucible.” BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Life as a Puritan in 1692 Massachusetts is doldrums for certain. Why else would its residents implode over land, miscarriages, money, the...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Glow Lyric Theatre’s 7th Summer Festival season has taken audiences on a far-out trip to a 1968 hippie commune, and to the witch trials of 1692 Salem. Now, in the company’s finale production, Glow sets sail to...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Fifty years after its Off-Broadway premiere, “HAIR” the ultimate counterculture musical is still poignant as ever. One might say Glow Lyric Theatre’s exhilarating revival at the Fine Arts Center in Greenville is fresh as a...
TALKING TITUS with John Fagan of The Warehouse Theatre’s Upstate Shakespeare Festival production, and Julie Taymor, “The Lion King” director and auteur of the 1999 film version of “Titus.” INTERVIEWED BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC John Fagan, longtime esteemed director of...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Compelling performances and high-stakes drama propel the latest Fringe Series play at Centre Stage, “Death and the Maiden.” This Olivier Award-winning work by Ariel Dorfman is set in an unnamed country that is, like the...
