Category Archives: Comments
All hail the commentariat
The City Paper’s intrepid team of reviewers and commentators were blanketing the city last night, capturing premieres of every major Spoleto and Piccolo Spoleto show that opened. As soon as we’ve compiled them all and removed all the catty remarks and gratuitous flattery (some people will do anything for a free ticket), we’ll post them [...]
Never play Scrabble with the Late Night Players
The Late Night Players, old Piccolo and Charleston Comedy Festival hands, return to the lower peninsula in a couple of weeks for Theatre 99’s Piccolo Fringe and a quartet of shows at Buxton’s East Bay Theatre. One of the Boston-based sketch comedy outfit’s favorite devices is the anagram, that age-old parlor game in which all [...]
Drive-By Booer Steps Forward
The P&C’s Spoletoblog today posts another piece about the man who booed Bill T. Jones at the premiere of his dance performance Blind Date last Thursday. The heretofore anonymous booer has been pilloried in the local press for his action — even The State in Columbia ran a piece on the event — and apparently [...]
Hail the Commentariat!
Susan Kattwinkel, a CofC faculty member who probably has more knowledge about the history of theatre in her little toe than anyone else in Charleston has ever learned, leaves an excellent comment on my notes regarding Geisha from Friday. Read it here. And while you’re at it, consider leaving a comment about something yourself. It [...]
The Commentariat
Lest anyone forget how this whole blog business works: remember, it’s a two-way street. See that little blue link there at the bottom of this post that reads “Comments”? Use it. We want to hear from you. This Spoleto Buzz blogger is just one person: mortal, an earthbound creature of flesh and blood, restrained by [...]
Getting forensic on Spoleto 2007
The 31st Spoleto Festival USA is officially in the past tense. It’s now time to get forensic on the thing. But that’s less easy than it sounds. Part of the difficulty in summing up the festival after the fact lies in its nature; as Mayor Riley noted during the mid-festival tribute to founder Gian Carlo [...]