BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC The Pulitzer Prize –winning “Our Town” by Thornton Wilder is staple of American drama was groundbreaking in its day in 1938: an active narrator breaking the fourth wall and addressing the audience that we are in...
BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC Beth Henley’s “Crimes of the Heart” “really is a comedy.” Katie Halstensgard and her castmates had to continually remind themselves with this mantra during rehearsals of the Mill Town Players’ latest production, despite the play’s serious...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Continuity is a winsome asset for Mill Town Players. Chameleons Will Ragland and Shane Willimon dazzled Pelzer audiences in “Greater Tuna” and reunited a year later for “A Tuna Christmas.” Country and rockabilly chanteuse Katie...
The Plaids and their glorious four-part harmonies are back in Pelzer just in time for Christmas. These four young men who perished in an accident with a bus and returned to earth for one final hilarious evening of musical inspiration...
BY SANDY STAGGS ARTS WRITER Hazel Louise Corts was not a famous person. But she was a champion to Dr. Deborah McEniry and her family. So much that McEniry and her cousin Dr. Alicia Corts wrote a play in her...
Carolina Curtain Call’s Critics’ Picks of the 2017-18 Theatre Season (September 1, 2017 – August 30, 2018) They ain’t the Tonys or even the Suzy Bass Awards, but the Carolina Curtain Call Awards, a hybrid recognition by Upstate critics and theatre...
