BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Their name may be Scrappy, but Spartanburg’s only professional Shakespeare company’s production of “Twelfth Night” at Converse College is anything but scrappy. With focus on solid, concise and high-caliber acting, wistful and creative direction and...
BY SANDY STAGGS ARTS WRITER Sparkle City will soon lose some of its luster as one its arts community icons begins his final swan song and show this week with Scrappy Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” at Converse College. Tim Giles –...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC There’s a gospel movement fermenting in the Upstate right now. And in the second of three local stagings of Stephen Schwartz’s1971 classic “Godspell” – Greenville Technical College just ended its run and FIRE Theatre opens...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Oakbrook Preparatory School in Spartanburg has done it again. The youths traipsed across the rooftops of London in “Mary Poppins,” the sea floor in “The Little Mermaid” and now through the swamps of Duloc in...
BY SANDY STAGGS In the summer of 1812, Ludwig van Beethoven penned two of his most famous and most lasting works: a “little” symphony in F Major (“Symphony No. 8) and a deeply-moving, three-part love letter to woman of mystery...
A Round-Up of Our Favorite Campus Moments of the 2015-16 Season BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Upstate colleges and universities are the bedrock for training, experimenting and preparing young theatrical talent for careers in the industry. Carolina Curtain Call writers...
