You might notice that the Season Announcement looks a little different this year. In the hopes of staying agile in the time of Coronavirus, we’re holding off on scheduling our productions. And, in the interest of flexibility, we have several...
BY JEFF LEVENE DRAMA CRITIC Neil LaBute has never been a stranger to tackling the most fragile of societal issues with the delicacy of Gallagher at a summer farmer’s market, and in Furman Theatre’s latest adaptation of his work “Reasons...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Somewhere deep in the Carolina woods is an isolated cabin that harbors family secrets, surprises and frights for a group of sorority sisters on a Halloween-eve weekend retreat in Furman University Theatre’s world premiere of...
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...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC GLOW Lyric Theatre, South Carolina’s only professional opera company, launched its Summer Season this week with two vastly different adaptations of Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”: the definitive operatic version, Gounod’s 1867 “Roméo et Juliette,” and...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Christian Elser is knee-deep in pre-production for GLOW Lyric Theatre’s summer festival of love. As General Director of Greenville’s only professional opera company, Dr. Elser and his wife, Artistic Director Jenna Tamisiea, are shoring up...
