BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC Hey, I am a kid of the disco era! The Younts Center for the Performing Arts caps off its season of musicals with an ambitious mounting and Upstate premiere of “The Hunchback of Notre Dame.” Epic...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Carolina Curtain Call finally made it to the new theatre at the Younts Center for Performing Arts this weekend for “The Little Mermaid.” I can report with earnestness that great things are happening at this...
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...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Okay, so the car in Artios Greenville’s “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” does not fly like in the original London production, but believe me, this specially-engineered rented vehicle does everything but. Based on the most expensive...
BY JEFF LEVENE DRAMA CRITIC Boasting the songs of Leiber and Stoller and an exciting and talented cast delivering plenty of personality to the show’s legendary tunes, “Smokey Joe’s Cafe” marks a promising start to The New Younts Theatre Company....
Pelzer Theatre to Launch Sister Company in Fountain Inn This Fall BY SANDY STAGGS ARTS WRITER In three brief but bountiful years, the Mill Town Players have packed the historic Pelzer Auditorium dozens of times, brought home tons of awards...