BY STEVE WONGDRAMA CRITIC Contemporary playwright Lauren Gunderson is smart, successful, southern, and very confused about being smart, successful, and southern. In her play The Heath, she shares those confusions—and many others—with an audience she readily acknowledges is right in...
BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC Scrappy Shakespeare, Spartan burg’s only professional theatre company, announced their 2021 summer production of “Julius Caesar” last night January 4 at their second annual Winter Workshop held at the Artists Collective Spartanburg (formerly the West Main...
BY DR. KATE ROARKDRAMA CRITIC There’s a line near the beginning of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, about the best Broadway songs being like short plays. Of course, Carole King didn’t write her songs for Broadway, but this line...
Required Viewing for all Miranda Die-Hards! BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC SPAMILTON: An American Parody is an audacious send-up of Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creative process and Hamilton fever…and the Broadway musicals affected by the success of the box office phenomenon. Hamilton...
Upstate theatre was well represented this past weekend at the 53rd Annual South Carolina Theatre Association Annual Convention culminating with a near-total sweep by Market Theatre Company at the Community Theatre Festival. After ending their original run on the Market...
Modern Comedy about a Children’s Play Laughs at Grown-up Issues BY STEVE WONGDRAMA CRITIC Just in time for Thanksgiving, The Warehouse Theatre in Greenvilleis presenting the nationally popular The Thanksgiving Play and dishing out some political incorrectness that is tasty...
