BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Ever heard the theatre maxim “The REAL drama happens backstage”? The Peace Center’s 2018-19 Broadway Series opener turns this hypothesis on its head with all of the drama and sidesplitting’ comedic antics on stage and...
Carolina Curtain Call’s Critics’ Picks of the 2017-18 Theatre Season (September 1, 2017 – August 30, 2018) They ain’t the Tonys or even the Suzy Bass Awards, but the Carolina Curtain Call Awards, a hybrid recognition by Upstate critics and theatre...
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. This poignant axiom is as old as time itself, or at least Hans Christian Anderson, the Grimm brothers or Aesop. And South Carolina Children’s Theatre adds another message to the fairy tale...
Prroducer Jeffrey Seller and the Peace Center announce today that single tickets for HAMILTON will go on-sale to the public on Saturday, September 8, at 10:00 AM ET at tickets.peacecenter.org/hamilton and at the Peace Center Box Office (300 South Main Street). Tickets will be available...
BY KATE ROARK DRAMA CRITIC “Love Never Dies,” delivers everything you want from an Andrew Lloyd Webber this week through June 17)at the Peace Center. A sequel to PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, this musical has all the music of the night,...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC The 2007 indie hit film “Waitress” by Adrienne Shelly may seem, at first bite, an unlikely choice for a musical. The setting is contemporary, the characters are working class and the plot is prosaic....
