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....
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...
The Theatre of Distinction Award goes to South Carolina Children’s Theatre, the Theatre Advocacy Award goes to Bert Wakeley and the 2018 Lifetime Service Award goes to Jimm Cox, formerly of USC Upstate. Chad Henderson of the Trustus Theatre will...
BY STEVE WONG DRAMA CRITIC When the two young men on stage were about to have sex, the silence in the black box theater at USC Upstate was deafening. That was one of the eye-opening moments in the world premiere...
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...
