BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Shakespeare is alive and well at Upstate colleges and universities as two new plays around the Bard just closed and a reimagined version of one of his histories opens on December 4. The Shoestring Players...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC As usual, it’s the college theatres that are pushing boundaries, for better or worse, with contemporary tales in an amalgam of teenage angst and the macabre. On the heels of the horror-film spoof “Evil Dead:...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC For its second production of the season, Converse College turns to classic Japanese theatre in “Lonely Though We Love,” a highly-stylized, even avant-garde, take on an epic love story set in 1950s Osaka. Meg Hanna...
Crooked Tue. Oct. 11 – Fri. Oct. 14, 2016 at 8 p.m. Free A new play by Catherine Trieschmann Fourteen-year-old Laney arrives in Oxford, Mississippi with a twisted back, a mother in crisis and a burning desire to be writer....
Two Reasons you GOTTA GO! No. 1: Theatre Converse’s Clever “Urinetown” is an Inspired Musical Treat! No. 2: The Tongue-in-Cheek Performances are Sparkling and Marvelously Melodramatic! BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Throne. John. Powder Room. Water Closet. Crapper. These are...