“Next to Normal” indeed exceeds all expectations and is stocked with a fine, harmonious cast lead by Sara Tolson in her gut-wrenching, magnum opus performance. Prepare to laugh some but, by all means, bring your travel size Kleenex. BY SANDY...
BY SANDY STAGGS ARTS WRITER On this very same day last year Sara Tolson was fine-tuning her harmonies as one-third of one the greatest female music acts of all time, the Andrew Sisters, in the biographical musical “Sisters of Swing”...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC There is no irony lost in Bailey Tyler’s portrayal of the blonde valley girl-turned-Harvard law student Elle Woods in The Market Theatre Company’s “Legally Blonde: The Musical.” Anderson folks may recall that another local, Bailey...
This clever light farce so effortlessly and seamlessly obscures the lines between fiction and fact into a wholly coherent and delicious concoction. And watching these winsome performances of brilliant minds arrive at the genesis of...
It’s intimate but grandiose in scope; crisp and polished in every way. BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC I just dig a Greek Chorus! Especially one like the groovy gaggle in Anderson University’s spring finale “Oedipus Rex.” Shroud in Jessica Snyder’s...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC The Market Theatre Company in Anderson launched its sophomore season this weekend with the classic Southern gothic drama, Tennessee Williams’ “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.” And this one is a doozy! Winner of the...
