BJU announces 2019-20 season of concerts, operas, dramas
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‘Annie Get Your Gun’ shoots into town with music, fun for all
Mill Town Players’ real-life story “Annie Get Your Gun” revisits Buffalo Bill’s Wild West in a show within a show that features sharpshooter Annie Oakley and her opposing shooter and romance Frank Butler.
Inspiring tragedy ‘Jane the Quene’ shares power of principles
The Logos Theatre retells the tragic yet inspiring story of Jane’s nine-day reign in “Jane the Quene” for one local performance only.
Theater superfans: ‘Bert and Emily’ cherished by Upstate acting community
They see it all: High school musicals. University plays. Community theater productions of all sorts. A little opera, too.
Honors band, theater added to class catalog
Greenville County Schools approved 13 new courses for its catalog of classes schools can offer, including honors-level introductory band and theater classes. Students who take band and theater throughout high…
Greenville County Schools will change how it determines top seniors
Greenville County Schools is changing how it honors the county’s top graduating students. Currently, the county’s 14 high schools all determine their top seniors in different ways. Under the change,…
Centre Stage offers heartwarming Christmas comedy ‘Laughing All the Way’
Paul’s Pick of the Week: “Laughing All the Way” at Centre Stage, running through Dec. 22. Why you should go: Centre Stage always serves up an audience-pleasing Christmas treat for…
Backstage: A Q&A with Centre Stage’s Glenda ManWaring
Glenda ManWaring has performed for all of Greenville’s theaters, but her first year as Centre Stage’s executive artistic director was perhaps her most difficult role.
Mill Town Players’ ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ highlights the story’s enduring messages
Mill Town Players will bring one of the most beloved stories in modern American literature to the stage in its upcoming production of “To Kill a Mockingbird.” The play, written…
Backstage: A Q&A with SCCT’s Traysie Amick
Traysie Amick discovered the allure of theater when her mother took her to a production when she was in elementary school. Now as the South Carolina Children’s Theatre’s principal teaching artist, she is introducing hundreds of Greenville-area children to the world of theater.
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The star of ‘Santa Claus: A New Musical’ may be familiar, but the music isn’t
When it comes to Christmas-related performances, actor Lee O. Smith may be the most qualified to star as the title character in the South Carolina Children’s Theatre’s production of “Santa Claus: A New Musical.” Not only has he donned the red cap and shiny boots of Kris Kringle before, but he also may just have the holiday equivalent of a hat trick.
Warehouse Theatre’s ‘The Cake’ goes beyond right versus left and red versus blue
It would be difficult to find a contemporary play that embodies the current culture wars more precisely than “The Cake,” written by “This Is Us” producer and writer Bekah Brunstetter.…
Centre Stage’s ‘Ghost the Musical’ goes beyond replicating its source material
“We aren’t trying to mimic the iconic characters of Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore,” says Glenda ManWaring. “We’re letting the actors tell their story in their way.”
Conspiracy, corporate malfeasance, and unheralded heroics drive the hard-hitting drama ‘Radium Girls’
“Radium Girls” will be a theater-in-the-round performance, meaning the audience will sit surrounding the stage in close proximity to the actors.