BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC Photo by Tony Penna It’s not every day the Upstate gets to experience a world premiere play, especially at a professional theatre. But the Warehouse Theatre is a high profile regional house and Greenville reaps the...
BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC Warning: Spoilers & mature language in this review. It’s not often I, as a theatre critic, have the opportunity to use foul language in my reviews. So I take particular pride in...
BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC There is nothing Iittle about Greenville Theatre, as the landmark company is now known, nor its current “smash” “Oliver!”– and I don’t throw around that term lightly. With a gorgeous set by Suzanne McCalla, who is...
BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC “A Bronx Tale” may be set in the rough-and-rumble Bronx of the 1960s, but this autobiographical story by Chazz Palminteri adapted from his one-man show, though polished and thoroughly entertaining, and bustling with sentimentality. This version...
The Theatre of Distinction Award goes to South Carolina Children’s Theatre, the Theatre Advocacy Award goes to Bert Wakeley and the 2018 Lifetime Service Award goes to Jimm Cox, formerly of USC Upstate. Chad Henderson of the Trustus Theatre will...
BY STEVE WONGDRAMA CRITIC Presenting Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie” is tricky. Inarguably, it is a great American play, by a great Southern playwright. Even the most novice theatre-lover has seen it, probably several times. We seemingly never get tired...
