- 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
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 [...]
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. [...]
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. [...]
Review: The Violet Hour
March 9, 2008 – 4:47 pm
The Footlight Players opened their latest show Friday. Called The Violet Hour, it’s about a book publisher who must decide between publishing the book of his best friend or the book of his secret lover. Oh, and then there’s the sci-fi element that’s thrown in, too. Will Bryan went to the theater Saturday night. He [...]
A Busy Week: Defiance, Fiddler, Pettigrew, Zombies, and Piccolo
March 7, 2008 – 11:37 am
Our 216-page Best of Charleston issue crowded out pretty much everything else we typically published in City Paper. That had some people (understandably) peeved. Susan Hallatt, director of graduate admissions at the College of Charleston, spent some time looking for a review of Charleston Stage’s Fiddler on the Roof, which continues tonight, tomorrow night, [...]
Letter to the Editor: Mt. P councilman likes Defiance
March 7, 2008 – 10:47 am
We got this the other day from Mt. Pleasant Councilman Ken Glasson. —JS
Dear Editor,
I attended a performance at the Playhouse in Mount Pleasant called “Defiance.” I was curious over the advertising which included a Marine in a Dress Blue uniform. Being a Mustang Lieutenant Colonel in the Marine Reserve and having served for the [...]
The Media and Trust: We’re nothing without it
March 5, 2008 – 3:55 pm
We’ve had some wonderful discussion about theater today regarding the Village Playhouse’s ersatz theater review published in the Post and Courier on Feb. 28.
In brief, the Playhouse bought ad space in the paper. It filled it with a review published on Lowcountry Stages, a website maintained independently by City Paper theater critic William Bryan. The [...]
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 [...]
