BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC The Upstate Theatre scene has always been a close-knit community, often sharing artists, props, costumes, scenic elements, and since 2019, auditions. Companies have even collaborated on shows in the past (i.e. Mary Poppins in Greenwood/Abbeville) But...
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...
BY STEVE WONGDRAMA CRITIC Head Over Heels, the latest live stage production by Proud Mary Theatre Co., is a delightful and bawdy Broadway musical comedy that leaves skidmarks of social acceptance on the heart and mind, as it reimages a...
BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC Let me first say that this production is outstanding, even epic, and the best musical at Centre Stage maybe since Dreamgirls. Topping off a transformation of Upstate theatrical stages with BIPOC actors in leading roles (SCCT’s...
The Market Theatre Company’s debut Mobile Production Unit show Every Brilliant Thing traveled to Memphis, TN this weekend for the Southeastern Theatre Conference Community Theatre Festival and scored a Best Actress win for Antoinette Hall, star of this one-woman show...
BY STEVE WONGDRAMA CRITIC Falsettos, the current musical production of Spartanburg’s Proud Mary Theatre Company, starts off with the rousing and hysterically funny song “Four Jews In A Room Bitching,” but by the end of the musical, if you are...
