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...
BY STEVE WONG DRAMA CRITIC Tears – both real and make believe – were shed during the opening weekend of the play “Southern Baptist Sissies” in Spartanburg. The tears were those of four gay and anguished young men who grew...
Proud Mary Theatre Production Still Selling Out Shows BY SANDY STAGGS Proud Mary Theatre Company’s production of “Southern Baptist Sissies” has set off a tidal wave of controversy on social media in the Upstate, though you would never know by...
Spartanburg’s Proud Mary Theatre Company and 19 other arts, science, and humanities organizations and seven local artists were officially awarded grants totaling $621,200 by Chapman Cultural Center, the leading local arts agency in Spartanburg County, at a public ceremony on...
Chapman Cultural Center, the leading local arts agency in Spartanburg County, awarded 20 arts, science, and humanities organizations and seven local artists a total of $621,200 at a public ceremony on June 12. In the last twenty-three years, through generous...
BY STEVE WONG DRAMA CRITIC When the two young men on stage were about to have sex, the silence in the black box theater at USC Upstate was deafening. That was one of the eye-opening moments in the world premiere...
