“Souvenir” is an intense, joyful ride into the psyche of a passionate, generous and true artist who never had delusions of grandeur, only of pitch. BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Some 11 years before the Meryl Streep film made Florence...
Tony-Nominee Nancy Opel is Deliciously Saucy as the Sexy “Curvy Widow” BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Broadway veteran and Tony-nominee Nancy Opel (the original Broadway Penelope Pennywise in “Urinetown,” as well as “Sunday in the Park with George,” “Beautiful,” and...
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...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC North Carolina Stage Company launched its 2016 season Saturday with the gripping one-woman-show “Grounded,” about a fighter pilot who is “grounded” after pregnancy and reassigned to fly drones. “Grounded” is staged by Immediate Theatre Project,...
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...
1) PETER AND THE STARCATCHER – MULTIPLE THEATRES Without a doubt, “Peter and the Starcatcher” is the hottest play property this season. This 2012 Tony-winning play by Rick Elice (“Jersey Boys”) with some music by Wayne Barker is based on the...
