BY STEVE WONGDRAMA CRITIC There are few things in life that make everyone — both men and women — cringe, tightly cross your legs, squeeze your eyes shut, and shudder in horror. One of those things is the basis for...
BY JEFF LEVENE DRAMA CRITIC Winner of three 2015 Tony’s including Best Musical, Fun Home is anything but your typical chorus line, show-stopping fare. Instead it’s one of Broadway’s most intimate and heartfelt pieces to come out of 21st century...
“Fun Home” star Eve Begelman will perform at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival as part of its of its 2019 Rising Stars series on Memorial Day, May 27 at 4 p.m. in Charleston. Eve, 15, plays Small Alison (the author at...
BY JEFF LEVENE DRAMA CRITIC Take a moment with me to imagine a game. You’re given a phone and instructed that no matter how estranged, no matter how awkward, no matter how obvious the answer, you must call the person...
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...
