Live Coverage from the Spotlight Booth at the Chapman Cultural Center BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC & SPOTLIGHT OPERATOR for Olivia Newton-John (Anna Elyse Lewis) The musical is better than the movie. How often does a theatre critic get to...
“Monty Python’s Spamalot” is a gut-busting, belly-aching foray into Arthurian lore with a Camelot-worthy cast in spot-on accents, dazzling musical numbers, sparkling costumes and a delightfully waggish sensibility. BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC The plot may be outlandish, even insipid....
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Dr. Kathleena L. Roark is new to Spartanburg, having moved here last summer family from Illinois, but she is already making headlines in the Spartanburg theatre community. An adjunct professor at both Converse and Wofford...
Spartanburg Little Theatre held its annual Season Reveal last night at the Chapman Cultural Center and Carolina Curtain Call can report, the theatre party of the year gets better and classier with each installment. Executive Artistic Director Jay Coffman announced...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Spartanburg Little Theatre follows up the contemporary Johnny Cash musical “Ring of Fire” with its annual “classic” offering: Noël l Coward’s other-worldly comedy “Blithe Spirit,” which begs the aphorism, “They just don’t make ‘em like...
BY JEFF LEVENE Whether it’s his farm boy beliefs, his outlaw image, or his live concerts at Folsom County and other prisons, it’s hard to imagine the Man in Black’s collective work showing up on Broadway’s glitzy front door. Yet...
