“Wait, like Steve Gutenberg? Police Academy and Cocoon Steve Gutenberg?” I asked myself that question when I first learned that Gutenberg! The Musical would be showing at Hub-Bub’s Showroom Thursday, June 10th through Saturday the 12th. I quickly ran through the catalogue of film memories stored deep in my brain for some kind of happy [...]
If you are a parent, you’ve likely heard the following statement from one of your kids. If you’ve ever been a kid, you’ve likely said the following to your parents. The statement, always uttered with a liberal dose of whine is, “I’m bored, there’s nothing to do.” Upon hearing that statement, a parent will often [...]
As many of you may know from the 2002 documentary Comedian, after having one of the most successful stand-up comedy careers of the last quarter-century, and starring in one of the most influential and successful television shows of all time — which just happened to be named after him — Jerry Seinfeld needed a new [...]
It’s probably not going to surprise too many people to know that writing this column about sharing weekend plans is actually one of the main reason I bother to have weekend plans in the first place. After all, most people don’t plan their weekend out in advance unless there’s something fairly exceptional happening, and part [...]
The Christmas season may be a busy one for shoppers but it is also a very busy one for those performing under the lights as well. There are four major productions in Spartanburg in the next few weeks all with a holiday theme. The first is the Spartanburg Youth Theater’s production of The Best Christmas [...]
Now that we’re two weeks away from the gigantic parties and hangovers of New Years, it’s time for people here in Sparkle City to start cautiously coming out of their hiding places and looking for some social interaction. But what is there to do? What’s on our short list for the weekend? For a start, [...]
Tonight is opening night for The Mikado, the fall production of the Converse Opera Theatre. It will run this weekend only, starting at 7:30pm Friday and Saturday and at 2:30pm on Sunday. Come early to catch the “Opera Talk” with Ross Magoulas, who will discuss the Mikado’s plot, its writers, Gilbert and Sullivan, and their [...]
Each week, we ask you — our dear readers — to tell us what you’ve got lined-up for the weekend. Are you planning to check out local acoustic-rock act Hindsight (performing with Brandywine) at the HUB-BUB on Friday? Wanting to get your thrash on at tomorrow’s Lecherous Nocturne CD-release at Ground Zero more your speed? [...]
It seems to me that the biggest challenge in an American community theater presenting a play that excarnates the British sex farce is this: We don’t have sex farces in American theater. Generally speaking, American theater — at least outside of very large cities, college programs and “edgy” black-box stages — isn’t self-supporting, and relies [...]
Last week, the Theatre Converse debuted their Halloween play, The Anointing of Draculaa new production written and directed by theatre professor Brent Glenn. Now in it’s second week of production, the play has already become one of Spartanburg’s bigger arts coups of 2008, meriting the cover of the Spartanburg Herald-Journal‘s weekly arts supplement The Escape [...]
Each week, we ask you, the readers, to tell us about what you’re excited about doing as the workweek winds down. Of course, it can be awkward to start this kind of conversation cold, so we’ll be the first to go. What are we looking forward to this weekend?
As often as not, community-theater productions of Peter Pan are horrible. Few people outside the theater community ever talk about this, of course, because it can seem deeply cruel to talk bad about, say, a particular 7-year-old’s performance simply wasn’t up to snuff because he got scared and vomited all over the girl who plays [...]
It’s Wednesday, the second-most magical day of the work week. While it’s no Friday — the mad jailbreak of workers dreaming of two whole work-free days — Wednesday does have the unique charm of being the day people stop dreading the rest of the work week and start dreaming of the weekend to come. Traditionally, [...]
