BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC Glow Lyric Theatre kicks off its 2019 “Raising Voices” series May 6-7 with the world premiere of a new musical work by Upstate songstress Jessica Eckenrod that examines the journeys of women throughout history, and the...
BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC Photo by Tony Penna It’s not every day the Upstate gets to experience a world premiere play, especially at a professional theatre. But the Warehouse Theatre is a high profile regional house and Greenville reaps the...
BY STEVE WONGDRAMA CRITIC Presenting Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie” is tricky. Inarguably, it is a great American play, by a great Southern playwright. Even the most novice theatre-lover has seen it, probably several times. We seemingly never get tired...
BY JEFF LEVENE DRAMA CRITIC While the Christmas season is said to bring out the child in us all, The Warehouse Theatre’s production of Christmas on the Rocks asks the pertinent question, what would happen if those same children from...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC “Sweat” gets to the raw, exposed core and painful rationale behind the Rust Belt Trump voter and examines the loss of the American Dream in a naturalistic story with gritty emotion and the crushed value...
Carolina Curtain Call’s Critics’ Picks of the 2017-18 Theatre Season (September 1, 2017 – August 30, 2018) They ain’t the Tonys or even the Suzy Bass Awards, but the Carolina Curtain Call Awards, a hybrid recognition by Upstate critics and theatre...
