New musical a 'Blast From the Past'

Singer and dancer Brad Moranz says that "Little Shop of Horrors" meets "Superman" meets "Field of Dreams" is the best way to describe the new musical he and wife Jenny, a former Rockette, have penned. Read More

Ballet a real beauty

REVIEW

When Marianna Chemalina as Princess Aurora leapt on stage in strawberry pink and greeted five suitors for her 16th birthday party, she balanced on one toe, holding her other leg in an arabesque. Read More

Women to steal the show at Footlight

'When I got married, I had seven bridesmaids, and my corkage fee was doubled, not because of the wedding guests, but because my bridesmaids drank so much!" recalls Andrea K. McGinn. Read More

Artist uses her home as a gallery

You never know when that watercolor of a sea turtle hanging over your bathroom tub will strike someone's fancy. That is, if like artist Carol McGill, you use your home as an art gallery. Read More

Ruhl's 'Dead Man's Cell Phone' quirky

On a humid summer night in 2007 at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Washington, D.C., I saw the premiere of the new play "Dead Man's Cell Phone." Amid the buzz at intermission, I noticed political luminaries such as U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg intensely discussing this modestly staged show by an unknown playwright. Read More

Dark comedy on tap for LateNight

A local thespian of multiple genres, Robbie Thomas was in the Drama Book Shop in New York a couple of years ago when he came across a script by playwright Nicky Silver titled "The Altruists." "I had never heard of this play, but I bought it because I really love Nicky Silver's wild comedic writing in 'Fat Men in Skirts' that was performed at the College of Charleston, and his comedy 'Raised in Captivity,' " explains Thomas, who directed the razor-sharp "Frost/Nixon" at the Footlight Players in 2009. Read More

Play weds audience to stage action

If you're brave enough to arrive as a "guest" at "Tony 'n' Tina's Wedding," you'll find you not only are treated to pasta and cake but you may become part of the play itself when it opens Thursday at the Village Playhouse. Read More

Smallwood's watercolors are 'Lifescapes'

When Philip Smallwood rides in a New York cab, he doesn't just watch the meter. He often studies the cab driver in the rear-view mirror, examining his wrinkles, or the lack of them and the expression in his eyes. Read More

Wiles resigns from league

One of the key players in establishing The Charleston League of Theatres, an organization formed in 2005 to promote local theatrical groups, has resigned, creating somewhat of a shock throughout the local performing arts arena. Read More

Character-driven plays to offer rewards

The actor James Spader once said of performing eight shows a week on Broadway: "There's going to be a repetition and a redundancy night after night, but it's the small variations in those moments: a word, a tone of voice, the smallest sense of enlightenment that can happen in an instant and be the most rewarding." Read More