BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Nuclear secrets, espionage, a murder and love conspire for a delectable evening of hilarity and chaos in Centre Stage’s period dramedy “Red Herring.” Combing the tropes of noir detective stories, Hitchcock films and spy novels,...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Two well to-do couples have a civil meeting to discuss an altercation that occurred earlier in the day between their two 11-year-old boys, Benjamin and Henry, which left the latter with two broken teeth. What...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC The 2007 indie hit film “Waitress” by Adrienne Shelly may seem, at first bite, an unlikely choice for a musical. The setting is contemporary, the characters are working class and the plot is prosaic....
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC The Warehouse Theatre’s new MainStage production of William Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” is set amidst the backdrop of the film industry, but this comedy about two pairs of Sicilian lovers is no mafia epic...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC When the bridegroom wakes up with one heck of a hangover and a strange woman in the honeymoon suite on the morning before his nuptials, Greenville Little Theatre audiences know they are in for “Perfect...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Just as Shakespeare so eloquently lays out in his Prologue the fate of the doomed teen lovers in “Romeo and Juliet,” we are warned up front that things will end badly in “Capture Now,” the...
