“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...
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...
