Category Archives: Underground & Unofficial
Rain dance schedule: tomorrow at 6pm
Nobody hopes for rain on a weekend, but with the area as parched for a good downpour as it is right now, you could be forgiven for keeping your fingers crossed that tomorrow’s forecast – scattered thunderstorms – holds. At the same time, you could be forgiven for praying it holds off until early evening, [...]
Death to Tyranny (Again)
It may be stretching things to suggest that last November’s election results were shaped by Footlight Theatre’s subversive, guerilla-style production of the play I’m Gonna Kill the President: A Federal Offense. Even so, the brief but incendiary late-night run (Nov. 2-11) did surprisingly well for the theatre, and was apparently successful enough that its producer, [...]
Parsing Spoleto ’06’s Most Memorable Moments
With Spoleto 2006 officially in the rear-view mirror, it’s worth observing once again that there’s a hell of a lot more to festival season than just what happens on stage, as anyone who followed this blog regularly surely noticed. It’s no accident that Spoleto founder Gian Carlo Menotti jammed the whole thing into 17 days; [...]
Soprano Switch-Up
From City Paper music critic Lindsay Koob:
Before our informal podcast interview (check it out!) this afternoon with Roméo et Juliette stars Nicole Cabell and Frédéric Antoun, Patrick and I learned of an important solo role switch (we didn’t discuss it in the recorded interview, as it seemed to be something of a sensitive issue). Ms. [...]
Change Is (Sometimes) Good
With festivals as engorged with artistic talent, and the mountain-sized egos that often accompany them, as Piccolo and Spoleto are, and given that the risk of booking an up-and-coming performer often means they’re ready to drop your contract at the drop of a Franklin for a better offer — it’s less often a question of [...]
Riddle Me This
I’m normally not one to pry, but my sources tell me that as of Thursday, May 4, there’s been a changing of the Spoleto Overview Critic guard at The Post and Courier.
A few months ago, I reported in the City Paper that Blair Tindall, last year’s Spoleto Overview Critic for the P&C, had decided not [...]
The Parodying Begins
There’s a venerable tradition of underground artists in Charleston finding ways to send up Spoleto’s perceived elitism — one of my favorites dates from about eight years ago, when one could find raw baking potatoes strewn randomly about the city, often skewered on street signs, with “Spoleto Potato” scrawled on them with a black sharpie. [...]
