BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC The longest-running play in Broadway history makes its Upstate company premiere on the glorious stage at, where else? Greenville Theatre. The play within the play (do not miss the double playbill wihin the playbill) is directed...
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 Jocose: An adjective. To be playful or humorous. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee now playing at The Warehouse Theatre in Greenville is jocose because every character is quirky with lots of personality under duress....
BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC After seeing several local versions of jukebox musicals this summer in which the music outscored the story (Mamma Mia!, Head Over Heels, and We Will Rock You) Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The...
By John JeterGuest Writer To attempt creating, let alone staging, an opera about a 14-year-old Black boy’s execution requires near superhuman artistic power—along with heaping doses of audacity or guts. More likely, Frances Pollack, the young composer of “Stinney: An...
By Zoe OliphantGuest Writer “What does it mean to be a man in the eyes of God?” What does it mean to be a man in the eyes of men? Are the perceptions of the image that these two entities...
