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...
BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC The Upstate Theatre scene has always been a close-knit community, often sharing artists, props, costumes, scenic elements, and since 2019, auditions. Companies have even collaborated on shows in the past (i.e. Mary Poppins in Greenwood/Abbeville) But...
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 This review may be the shortest I have written in some time, because this play is AMAZING! But not to give short shrift to Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry at the Mill Town Players in...
BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC Add red food coloring, cocoa, a fifth of Kahlua, and a dynamite cast to your cake recipe, bake at 350 degrees about 90 hilarious minutes and you have The Red Velvet Cake War, the Mill Town...
BY QUINN DAVISCONTRIBUTOR Steel Magnolias, by writer Robert Harling is a well known staple of southern cinema and stage, and has been beloved in this state since its first showing. Harling crafted the story as a means of dealing with...
