- John Stoehr
Arts Editor
There's more to art than you think. It's not just theater, paintings, books and dance. It's the enterprise of human creativity and it takes vastly different shapes and forms. Here you'll find my thoughts about the arts in Charleston and beyond. Neither of us knows what to expect.
Author Archives: Patrick Sharbaugh
Seeking Weekly Geekly 3.0
May 2, 2007 – 2:36 pm
Well, it’s bad news here on the columnist front. I’ve just heard from my Weekly Geekly columnist Holly Burns — she of the red unmistakably toffee hair, British accent, and peripatetic lifestyle (she recently moved from Charleston to San Francisco via Southeast Asia, if you didn’t know this already by following her insanely popular expat [...]
If Vikki Carr had heard me, she’d sue
May 1, 2007 – 3:39 pm
As editor Stephanie Barna noted to me a few days ago, having your own blog is nice and all, but with ownership comes constant pressure to post — and, when I don’t, enough guilt that I may as well be Catholic. (It doesn’t help that I am, as a matter of fact, Catholic.)
Part of the [...]
Roses for Daisey
April 25, 2007 – 1:40 pm
Two-time Spoleto veteran and monologuist Mike Daisey got a faceful of rejection last Thursday night when, only a few minutes into his show Invincible Summer, 87 members of the audience decided, all at once, that they were out like Sanjaya. On the way out, one of them dumped a bottle of water (Daisey’s, no less) [...]
Hot to Trot
April 24, 2007 – 10:55 am
The Village Voice has a brilliantly funny graphical breakdown of exactly why rapper Mims’ single “This Is Why I’m Hot” is hot right now.
Exodus: or The Curious Case of the Incident in the Theatre
April 24, 2007 – 9:01 am
Two-time Spoleto Festival vet Mike Daisey got a shock last Friday night when, during a performance of his monologue Invincible Summer at the American Repertory Theater in Boston (he first performed it here for last year’s Spoleto program), 87 members of his audience stood up and walked out en masse. As the group marched wordlessly [...]
The Producers out of Production
April 23, 2007 – 8:53 am
This spring was the last one for “Springtime for Hitler” on Broadway in NYC. The Producers, the winningest Tony award-winning musical in history, gave up the ghost yesterday after six years.
Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom said goodbye Sunday to Broadway, as The Producers, the hit Mel Brooks musical, ended its New York run after 2,502 [...]
Koyaanisqatsi on the morning commute
April 22, 2007 – 4:53 pm
There’s a fantastic article over at The Washington Post from a couple of weeks back I’ve been meaning to post about because it’s amazing. In a brash, brilliant public experiment, the editors of the newspaper arranged for a violinist to play as a busker in the L’Enfant Plaza Station of the Washington Metro at morning [...]
From the Please Tell Me They’re Kidding Department
April 21, 2007 – 11:02 am
While dunderheaded university officials across the nation are considering turning their campuses into military-style high-security police zones in the wake of last week’s tragedy at Virginia Tech, they’re not the only ones going overboard in their responses to the killings. At Yale’s Drama Department, Dean of Student Affairs Betty Trachtenberg is doing her small but [...]
Weekend at Bernie’s at Footlight
April 20, 2007 – 9:17 am
Talk about dedication to the actor’s craft. During last night’s production of über-farce Out of Order at Footlight Theatre, longtime Footlight stalwart Karl Bunch went above and beyond the call. Bunch, who in the first half of the British romp plays a dead body, executed an admirable backwards fall and roll off a divan at [...]
CSO’s Big-Screen Closeup
April 19, 2007 – 12:16 pm
Arts marketing types, listen up: the next time you need to fill some seats, let me suggest partnering with one of the CofC’s Arts Management classes. If the Charleston Symphony Orchestra’s second Symphonic Film Contest last week was any indication, your event’s guaranteed to be teeming with attractive 20-somethings and tanned college kids, giving it [...]
