BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Like a candle in the wind, the fate of FIRE Theatre hangs in the balance and in the hands of Fountain Inn city officials. But instead of living on a prayer, this repertory company ends...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC The Ides of March is indeed upon us a few days early in FIRE Theatre’s stylish new “Julius Caesar” opening March 10 at the Younts Center for Performing Arts in Fountain Inn. Shakespeare’s tragedy is...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Skid Row is filled with dirty alleys, failing businesses and the downtrodden and the hopeless. That is, until a botanical wonder brings new life into the neighborhood along with a barrage of national press...
13 Theatre, Dance, Film & Music Events to Haunt This Halloween Season! Upstate theatres and performing arts groups have a frightening line-up this Halloween season that is sure to entertain and give you a case of the creepies. This year’s picks feature...
In addition to customary entertainment by drag performers like Emcee Patti O’Furniture and Miss Upstate Pride Princess Mocha, as well as the marvelous Pride Chorus of Greenville (South Carolina’s only gay chorus), for the first time in Upstate Pride SC’s...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Big budget Disney Musicals, chamber pieces and lots of dancing await Upstate audiences in the 2016-17 Season. Hundreds of performers and technical artists around the Upstate have been preparing all summer for some of the...