Tag: Charleston
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Stephen Sondheim’s Company, Piccolo Spoleto Festival Preview
The musical “Company,” by Stephen Sondheim, is being revived by the Footlight Players for Piccolo Spoleto due to its outstanding success in January. “Company” is considered a “concept” musical due to its non-linear form of storytelling. It washes over you with a collage of relationships, giving you a better understanding of what it’s like to…
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Eric Bogosian’s Suburbia, review
1998 Archives My Charleston City Paper review of Eric Bogosian’s Suburbia, produced by the College of Charleston, October, 1998. S.E. Barcus is also on Facebook.
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Charles Busch’s Psycho Beach Party, review
“Besides the funniest script this year with the best acting, you get dance numbers … Metts opens the show with some sexy freak-out strobelight hula hoop madness that gets everyone rocking.”
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Cole Porter’s Anything Goes, Review
Review of Charleston Stage Company’s 2000 production of Cole Porter’s “Anything Goes”. From S.E. Barcus’ Charleston City Paper archives.
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Frankenstein at the Charleston Stage Company, a review
“… philosophical and theological questioning, Prometheus, intricate plot-weaving, creative use of her contemporary scientific ideas on vitalism and electricity, and fine, fine terror — all mixed up by a 17-year-old, 175 years ago. Just unbelievable. Mozart-prodigy-unbelievable. Godwin and Wollstonecraft, you done us good.”
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The Last Night of Ballyhoo, by Alfred Uhry, Charleston City Paper review, April 1999
“Altogether, they’re an outstanding ensemble, one of the best all-around casts I’ve seen in Charleston.”
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Born Yesterday, Charleston Stage Company Review
“This play is about political scandal, but it is not a sex scandal like Cliniton’s. … And it’s not a cynical and clever ’90’s script like Hollywood’s three products of ’98. No, thankfully, it’s a play written in the ’40’s when there was still idealism and right and wrong in this country.”
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The Guest Director, review of Franklin Ashley’s Southern farce
“Goodness knows how hard it is to get local, contemporary work up on its feet. It’s always a risk — but always a good one for our culture at large.”
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College of Charleston’s Much Ado About Nothing
“Is Much Ado About Nothing a flowery, two and a half hour “Three’s Company” episode? Yes. Is it a smattering of ideas and humor and complicated characters that are well-acted and directed? Yes. …”
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College of Charleston’s Macbeth, Review
Like a poser at a pop concert, I get really excited for the ‘hits’: “Foul is fair, and fair is foul.” Oh yeah. “Something wicked this way comes.” Oh, cool. “Out, damned spot.” Right. “Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow,” “sleep no more,” “full of sound and fury….” How can anyone not have a good time,…
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