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 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...
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...
BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC Centre Stage in Greenville mines the fertile decade of decadence for the company’s annual music show in The Final Countdown. From hard rock bands to the pop solo superstars of the 1980s, this show has it...
By Steve WongDRAMA CRITIC What is wrong with Juliana? She’s highly educated, talented, successful, worldly, and sophisticated. As a pharmaceutical pitchwoman, she knows how to work a crowd of doctors at a seminar in the Virgin Islands, and she dresses...
BY STEVE WONGDRAMA CRITIC No matter your religious faith — even the lack of it — Centre Stage’s production of Godspell will set your mind to thinking about how Jesus’ teachings have changed the world — and you’ll have a...
