- 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: CSO’s Shining Soul
January 20, 2008 – 5:29 pm
The Charleston Symphony Orchestra gave its first Mastersworks concert of the new year last night. Lindsay Koob checked it out and sent us this review. —J.S.
A pretty fair crowd braved Saturday’s wintry blast to attend “Shining Souls,” the Charleston Symphony Orchestra’s first Masterworks concert of the New Year at the Gaillard.
On the menu was a [...]
Review: The Tragedian
January 18, 2008 – 5:14 pm
The Tragedian is an original play written and performed by Rodney Lee Rogers, a co-founder of PURE Theatre. He first got the idea for the monologue during a party at Blue Bicycle Books. He felt pressured to buy something since he’d been invited. So he picked the first thing that drew his eye: a biography [...]
Review: Some Girl(s)
January 17, 2008 – 11:56 am
Some Girl(s), a play by Neil Labute, opened last night at the Chapel Theatre on the campus of the College of Charleston. The show runs until Jan. 27. We sent Will Bryan over to check it out. Here’s his review. — J.S. |
The Farer Sex
Men are that bad in Neil Labute’s Some Girls
By William Bryan
Men [...]
Arts: Patsy Cline, James’ Giant Peach, William Christenberry, Soft Iron, and Black Hole
January 16, 2008 – 1:19 pm
In the arts this week, I wrote a long review of the William Christenberry photography exhibit at the Gibbes Museum of Art. It’s a fine exhibit showing the artist’s range of technical mastery. Problem, the lighting in the museum is so bad, it’s hard to see it.
Kinsey Labberton reviewed Always…Patsy Cline, the latest production by [...]
Movies: The Orphanage, Great Debaters, Diving Bells, and Daniel Day-Lewis
January 16, 2008 – 1:02 pm
In movies this week, we have a review of Denzel Washington’s The Great Debaters. Washington is an actor’s actor here but critic Nick Smith says the film feels like a bunch of his other movies.
There Will Be Blood stars Daniel Day-Lewis acting his best in years. The movie is so original, says our critic MaryAnn [...]
Review: William Christenberry at the Gibbes
January 15, 2008 – 12:23 pm
This review will be in tomorrow’s paper —J.S.
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The Dark Room
William Christenberry’s brilliant photos don’t come to light
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With the publication of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men in 1941 with writer James Agee, a classic chronicle of the tribulations facing poor white sharecroppers during the Depression, photographer Walker [...]
Review: The Orphanage
January 13, 2008 – 7:04 pm
Nick Smith, one of our film critics, sent this review of The Orphanage. It’ll be in print on Jan. 23. Meanwhile, enjoy. —J.S. |
The Spooky Art
Mexican ghost story gets the formula just right
By Nick Smith
The Orphanage creeps into American multiplexes with an endorsement from Pan’s Labyrinth director Guillermo del Toro, but it doesn’t really [...]
Review: James and the Giant Peach
January 13, 2008 – 11:46 am
William Bryan, one of our theater critics, has just filed this review of the Charleston Stage’s production of James and the Giant Peach. The show was geared for children and had only a two-night run for the general public. The print version of William’s review will run on Wednesday. —J.S. |
Peach Pits
KidStage gives a flawed [...]
Review: Always … Patsy Cline
January 12, 2008 – 4:33 pm
Kinsey Labberton, one of our theater critics, just filed this review of the Village Playhouse’s current production of Always … Patsy Cline. Here’s the full review. The print version of the story hits the streets on Wednesday. —J.S. |
Vintage dresses and bouffant hair do not a Patsy make.
You don’t have a show unless you have [...]
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 [...]
