BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC Spartanburg Little Theatre follows up its stunning The Great Gatsby with the long-awaited Whoopi Goldberg classic Sister Act in the penultimate production of the company’s historic 75th season. Simone Mack-Orr reprises the role she first performed...
BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC The names, occupations, settings and supernatural explanations may have changed among the four Walt Disney film adaptations, and now musical at Spartanburg Youth Theatre, of Mary Rodgers’ popular children’s book, Freaky Friday. But the general concept...
AND ALL THAT JAZZ (COUNTRY, HIP-HOP, POP…) Creating a timeless soundtrack for The Great Gatsby When audiences enter the theater for Spartanburg Little Theatre’s highly-anticipated production of The Great Gatsby, they’ll notice something they don’t usually see in a non-musical...
BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC Converse Opera Theatre emerges back from Covid shutdown with a glossy, opulent Hansel and Gretel, the Petrie School of Music’s first full-scale production since the campus was re-branded as co-ed Converse University. And this opera is...
BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC USC Upstate Theatre delivered one their finest dramatic outings in recent memory this weekend with Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize winning play Sweat. Brimming with commentary about the working class, economic divide, and addiction, Sweat, directed by...
BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC Poor, poor Charlie Brown. This kid can never catch a break. Except maybe recently at the USC Upstate Theatre’s first Covid indoor production You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown, a revival two decades in the making....
