- 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.
Category Archives: Review
Review: Arabian Nights
April 11, 2008 – 11:09 am
The College of Charleston opens its final show of the theater season with Mary Zimmerman’s Arabian Nights. Will Bryan went to the show last night. He sent us this review. Arabian Nights continues tonight and shows through April 15 (see below).
The first five to 10 minutes of this two-and-a-half hour show are almost dreadful enough […]
More reviews of This War Is Live
April 7, 2008 – 12:05 pm
from Dottie Ashley, The Post and Courier:
You may be shocked by the language, brief nudity and implied sex at the world premiere of Jeff Messer’s “This War Is Live,” which opened Thursday at the Footlight Players. But you won’t be bored, and you’ll come away wondering if you ever can trust our government’s intel again.
This […]
Review: This War Is Live
April 4, 2008 – 1:47 pm
This War Is Live opened at the Footlight Players Theatre last night. Nick Smith went to the show and sent us this review. This War Is Live runs again tonight and tomorrow night. Tickets are $15.
This War is Live was chosen after a call-out to playwrights by Late Night @ the Footlights. The goal was […]
Weekend Wrap
March 31, 2008 – 9:07 am
A busy week deserves a wrap.
The Charleston Ballet Theatre gave the second of two 20-anniversary celebration programs.
The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art opened its annual juried student exhibit Young Contemporaries.
The Little City Musical Theatre Company debuted with Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a New World.
The Charleston Symphony Orchestra showcased its concertmaster Yuriy Bekker and the […]
Review: CSO presents more gold than korn
March 31, 2008 – 8:59 am
The Charleston Symphony Orchestra presented its concertmaster for the first time Saturday. Lindsay Koob says it was a grand performance. He sent us this review.
Last Saturday’s Visions Cinématiques program at the Gaillard — the latest in the Charleston Symphony’s Masterworks series — offered a feast of incredibly colorful and evocative music, plus the welcome chance […]
Review: Halsey Institute’s Young Contemporaries
March 30, 2008 – 1:14 pm
The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art opened Friday its latest show called Young Contemporaries. Kevin Murphy went to check it out and sent us this review. The annual juried student exhibition will be on view until April 25.
YOUTHFUL INDISCETIONS
Young Contemporaries shows artists busy growing up
By Kevin Murphy
If your impression of an art major is a […]
Review: program No. 2 of Charleston Ballet Theatre’s 20th-anniversary celebration
March 30, 2008 – 11:18 am
The CBT did the second half of its 20th anniversary programming last night. Nick Smith, always up for seeing svelte dancers emerge from a pile of dirt (not kidding), enjoyed the show and sent us this review. CBT continues with another performance today at 3 p.m. at the Sottile Theatre. Tickets are $30-$40. Sexy, powerful, […]
Review: Little City Musical Theatre debuts with Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a New World
March 29, 2008 – 3:53 pm
The Little City Musical Theater Company gave its first performance last night in North Charleston. The brand-new theater troupe performed Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a New World. Nick Smith went to check them out. He sent us this review. The production resumes tonight and Sunday at 8 p.m. at the South of Broadway Theatre. […]
Stop-Loss opens today
March 28, 2008 – 10:05 am
A review of Kimberly Peirce’s Stop-Loss by Felicia Feaster . . .
Straight to the Gut
Stop-Loss tells the story of a soldier and the people who love him
By Felicia Feaster
If the Vietnam War was defined by its visuals, then Iraq has been a war defined by terminology.
The phrase “stop-loss” joins a national combat vocabulary including […]
Review: Rounding Third
March 23, 2008 – 7:30 pm
The Village Playhouse opened a new production of the Richard Dresser comedy Rounding Third on Friday night. It’s directed by Keely Enright and features Josh Wilhoit (left) Thomas Burke Heath. Will Bryan, CP theater critic, went to check it out. He sent us this review. The show picks up again on Thursday. More details below. […]
