BY JEFF LEVENE DRAMA CRITIC Typically where there’s smoke there’s fire, but in the case of Mill Town Player’s newest nearly sold out show, smoke is instead permeating from some skillful banjo pickin and sizzling vocal harmonies. Hitting entertainingly close...
BY SANDY STAGGS/ARTS WRITER Tricia Dyar has somewhat of a love-love history with “Smoke on the Mountain,” the newest musical production by the Mill Town Players that opens Friday at the historic Pelzer Auditorium. The actress/singer/musician first fell in love...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC The Mill Town Players are painting the town of Pelzer plaid in its new heavenly musical “Forever Plaid,” the Off-Broadway revue that takes audiences on a mission of harmonies and grace of boy-pop groups of...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC The Mill Town Players turn back their metronome to the 1950s in their next outing in Pelzer, the Off-Broadway revue “Forever Plaid” opening Friday and running through February 19. Written by Stuart Ross, this musical...
BY JEFF LEVENE CONTRIBUTING CRITIC Encompassing all the South has to offer in Christmas festivities, including the yuletide rockabilly of Texas roadhouses, the bluegrass holiday celebrations in Appalachia, with pit stops in Memphis’s gospel halls and the showmanship of Nashville’s...
“Of Mice and Men” is compelling, gritty and potent theatre with stellar characterizations and a no-holds-barred approach to life’s intrinsic complexities. BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Times were hard, to say the least, during the Great Depression. And few authors...
