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...
Carolina Curtain Call’s Critics’ Picks of the 2017-18 Theatre Season (September 1, 2017 – August 30, 2018) VOTING INFO COMING SOON! The Upstate is so fortunate to be a Mecca of theatre and this list by two of our critics...
“The Rocky Horror Show” is a hip, crowd-pleasing, thoroughly entertaining, and scintillating, zesty musical sensation that dispenses with all subtleties. BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC “The Rocky Horror Show,” the wacky revolutionary science fiction oddity, has touched down for a...
Two Theatres Present the Cult Musical Sensation This Season BY SANDY STAGGS ARTS WRITER There are great roles. And then there are GREAT roles: Willy Loman. Hamlet. Lady Macbeth. Blanche DuBois. Dr. Frank-N-Furter. SOUND-OF-A-PHONOGRAPH-NEEDLE-SREECHING-ACROSS-A-VINYL-RECORD! Why, you ask, is the Sweet...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Closing out Glow Lyric Theatre’s 8th Summer Festival Season is Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Fidelio” and this production is a triumph on all levels. Stage Director Jenna Tamisiea has transported the action in this rarely produced...
