SOUTH CAROLINA THEATER REVIEWS

The national tour of 'Phantom of the Opera' is dynamic and captivating, not better than the original, just different....

Remember 1980s pop culture? Loud, garish and a bit tawdry? "Flashdance - The Musical" brings back all the tacky excess of that decade....

'Smudge,' which opened recently at Greenville's Centre Stage, has got to be one of the most bizarre plays I've ever seen: a dark comedy-drama-horror story by Rachel Axler about a couple who've just had a baby....

A big, ambitious musical like 'The Producers' was a great choice to help Centre Stage in Greenville (S.C.) celebrate its 30th season....

Race, David Mamet's incendiary exploration of truth and lies provoked by racial identity and expectation, has just completed its first week at Trustus Side Door Theatre, in collaboration with the NiA Company. Happily for Columbia audiences, it runs for another week, allowing continued opportunity fo...

Puss in Boots is currently playing at the Columbia Children's Theatre and is sure to delight the small fry, with plenty to amuse older children and their parents as well. It certainly held the attention of a rapt young audience at a recent matinee, a difficult task that speaks for itself. A deligh...

The Arts Center of Coastal Carolina has assembled a superb company of triple-threat performers for the Depression-era musical 42ND STREET. Directed by Casey Colgan, the story follows aspiring dancer/singer Peggy Sawyer, a small town girl who comes to New York with big dreams of making it on Broadway...

Planet Hopping - An Intergalactic Puppet Musical has just finished its initial two performances at Midlands Technical College's Harbison Theatre, but be on the lookout for this charming production for children to land at tour destinations sometime soon. This is a lovely, fun, original work that is ...

Mystery fans will delight in director Russell Treyz's sharp, stylish rendering of SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE FINAL ADVENTURE, currently playing at the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina in Hilton Head....

The Dock Street Theatre is a stunning jewel box set in the heart of downtown Charleston. Built on the site of a colonial era theatre, it is the home of Charleston Stage and its professional resident acting company made up primarily of young and energetic recent college graduates. Now in its 36th s...

Located on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina, The Arts Center of Coastal Carolina produces a full season of musicals and plays aimed at a dedicated audience of Lowcountry residents. The productions, which include crowd-pleasing favorites suggested by theatre-goers, feature fully professional ca...

There is much to love about the innovative production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Tom Morris, that is currently playing at the Dock Street Theatre in Charleston, S.C. as part of the Spoleto Festival. A spare company of twelve actors enacts a large cast of characters with the help of...