- 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: 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 [...]
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 [...]
