BY STEVE WONGDRAMA CRITIC As a little black boy, Sutter asked his mamma, “Why do you call my d*** bootycandy?” From the mouths of babes to a teenager feeding his institutionalized grandmother orgasmic soul food ordered from his iPhone, the...
It’s Party Time in Texas with Larger than Life Women, a Ghost, and Geriatric Lust BY STEVE WONGDRAMA CRITIC When you go see Rex’s Exes, the current play at The Historic Pelzer Auditorium (with gorgeous brand new lighting) produced by...
BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC Upstate theatre lovers rejoice! Shakespeare in the park is back in Greenville, and it’s certainly an Ado about something marvelously entertaining. John Fagan, Producing Artistic Director of The Warehouse Theatre’s Upstate Shakespeare Festival, returns in high...
BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC The names, occupations, settings and supernatural explanations may have changed among the four Walt Disney film adaptations, and now musical at Spartanburg Youth Theatre, of Mary Rodgers’ popular children’s book, Freaky Friday. But the general concept...
By Steve WongDrama Critic And, “Pouf!” there was laughter throughout Greenville’s Centre Stage theater in the company’s pandemic-delayed production of one its 2020 New Play Festival Winners. South Carolina playwright Lou Clyde has created a gem of a comedy that...
Required Viewing for all Miranda Die-Hards! BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC SPAMILTON: An American Parody is an audacious send-up of Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creative process and Hamilton fever…and the Broadway musicals affected by the success of the box office phenomenon. Hamilton...
