BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC The Upstate Theatre scene has always been a close-knit community, often sharing artists, props, costumes, scenic elements, and since 2019, auditions. Companies have even collaborated on shows in the past (i.e. Mary Poppins in Greenwood/Abbeville) But...
BY STEVE WONGDRAMA CRITIC Head Over Heels, the latest live stage production by Proud Mary Theatre Co., is a delightful and bawdy Broadway musical comedy that leaves skidmarks of social acceptance on the heart and mind, as it reimages a...
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...
