- 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: Theatre
Breaking News: New theater company emerges
March 5, 2008 – 12:46 pm
I’m following a lead on news about a new theater troupe that focuses on musicals. Called the Little City Musical Theatre Company, the groups plans to stage its first production at South of Broadway in North Charleston. The premiere is Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a New World and it opens on March 28. It […]
Follow-up to the Defiance “review”
March 4, 2008 – 4:23 pm
I talked to Keely Enright, co-founder of the Village Playhouse, about the ersatz review of the company’s production of Defiance that ran in the Post and Courier on Feb. 28.
Her thinking was straight forward: In order to counteract the negative City Paper review, she bought advertising space in the P&C’s Preview section (page 19E) and […]
A Curious “Review” of Defiance
March 4, 2008 – 2:15 pm
The day after City Paper ran a rather negative review of Defiance, we saw this item above on page 19E of the Post and Courier’s Preview on Feb. 28. At first glance, it’s a review. But it’s not. I’ll come back to that in a minute.
Defiance is the current production of the Village Playhouse on […]
Six paragraphs aren’t enough for Fiddler review
March 3, 2008 – 12:03 pm
I don’t know Carol Furtwangler, but I’m sure we’d have a lot to talk about. She’s the Post and Courier’s theater critic and she turns reviews around on a regular basis. Problem is, she doesn’t have much room to do a proper job.
For Fiddler on the Roof, a production that opened Friday and that was […]
Review: Fiddler on the Roof
March 1, 2008 – 3:34 pm
The Charleston Stage opened Fiddler on the Roof Friday night with accompaniment for the first time ever by the Charleston Symphony Orchestra. The lead role of Tveye was played by Charleston native and Equity actor John Fennel. Kinsey Labberton went to opening night and sent us this review —JS
Traditionally Traditional Tradition
By Kinsey Labberton
Tradition!
That’s the theme […]
Review: Quilters at CofC
February 22, 2008 – 12:07 pm
The College of Charleston last week opened Quilters, a musical about life on the prairie. Will Bryan went last night and sent this review. The production continues tonight and tomorrow night at 8 p.m. — JS
It would be easy to make various sewing, stitching, and quilting references while writing this review of the College of […]
Review: Bad Dates
February 3, 2008 – 11:10 am
Charleston Stage opened a production of Bad Dates Friday at the American Theater. We sent Kevin Murphy over to see how it was. He sent us this review to be printed Wednesday. The show continues Feb. 6-8, 13, 15, 8 p.m. Feb. 9, 14, 16, 6 & 9 p.m. $19.50-$26.50, (843) 577-7183, www.charlestonstage.com, American Theater, […]
PURE extends dates of The Tragedian
January 31, 2008 – 2:58 pm
PURE Historical, a branch of PURE Theater, has added dates to its amazing one-man play, The Tragedian. Written and performed by Rodney Lee Rogers, the monologue is the story of Edwin Booth, the great 19th-century actor famed for playing Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Richard III, and older brother of John Wilkes, the man who killed Lincoln.
The […]
Review: Crowns
January 28, 2008 – 1:35 pm
The Footlight Players opened Crowns last Thursday. Our critic, Elizabeth Pandolfi, took some time away from her busy getting-ready-to-get-married schedule to send us this review. —J.S.
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Some African-American women have such gorgeous dignity that it’s quite difficult not to notice your own posture leaves something to be desired, and that your outfit, […]
The Lego turns 50
January 28, 2008 – 8:57 am
It’s the 50th anniversary of Lego’s. How many hours have I spent building imaginary creations with this wonderful toy? Countless. Since its invention in Copenhagen on Jan. 28, 1958, the company has made a staggering 400 billion Lego elements, or 62 bricks for every person on the planet. Lego’s influence is so pervasive that even […]
