BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC Shakespeare aside, few playwrights have ingratiated their prose into our cultural vernacular with quotable dialogue as Tennessee Williams. Stanley Kowalski’s “Stellaaaaaaaaa” and Blanche Dubois’ “I have always depended on the kindness of strangers” rank right up...
This Masterpiece is in Good Hands in Anderson BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC Rent, one of Broadway’s longest-running musicals, is experiencing a revival of sorts in the Upstate with the Market Theatre Company kicking off the first of two productions this...
It’s Party Time in Texas with Larger than Life Women, a Ghost, and Geriatric Lust BY STEVE WONGDRAMA CRITIC When you go see Rex’s Exes, the current play at The Historic Pelzer Auditorium (with gorgeous brand new lighting) produced by...
BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC Of the four fantastic plays I saw this weekend across the Upstate (Spartanburg, Greenville, Anderson and Tryon), Barbecue at the Market Theatre is the one that lingered with me, just as that barbecue bowl I indulged...
In Clemson, Veteran and Young Actors Make a Classic Fresh Again By Steve WongDRAMA CRITIC The Clemson Little Theatre went old-school classic for its production of Moon Over Buffalo, giving Upstate South Carolina a peek at the madcap shenanigans of...
BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC 1. Ice cream. 2. Kung Fu movies. 3. Burning things. 4. Laughing so hard you shoot milk out your nose. 5. Construction cranes. 6. Me. This is the initial list in Every Brilliant Thing at the...