BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC The Shoestring Players at USC Upstate ended their season on a very, very high note – literally 40 stories high (I am guesstimating) – with the office romantic comedy “How to Succeed in Business Without Really...
MOVEMENT is a powerful, moving piece of theatre at its most brutally honest. You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll be transformed.FULL REVIEW next week. The Award-Winning Proud Mary Theatre Company presents A Double World Premiere: MOVEMENT and THE KISS In celebration...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC In his swan song with the Shoestring Players, retiring Director of Theatre Jimm Cox helmed his final show this past weekend “London Road,” a phantasmagorical, avant-garde musical that is unlike any show this critic has...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC All’s well in the idyllic town of Allswell. Or is it? Lies, corruption, intimidation, extortion, denial, bribery, corporate greed and much more are interwoven in this “Tapestry” of a small community controlled by the all-powerful...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC While other colleges are closing out the year with high-brow Shakespearean and Greek tragedies (Clemson’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Furman’s “Romeo and Juliet,” North Greenville’s “Macbeth” and Anderson’s “Oedipus Rex”), the Shoestring Players at USC...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC When Howie Jordan as the titular star of “Compleat Female Stage Beauty” says, “Theatre people don’t see plays for fun,” he (and she) grossly misjudged his audience, for this clever Jeffrey Hatcher dark comedy is...
