Category Archives: WTF?
How to make sure you’re never invited to guest star on 30 Rock
This Spoleto Buzz blogger, having in recent days created a permanent indentation in his computer chair the size and shape of his backside, spent yesterday evening on the Piccolo trail, specifically that section of it carved out by Theatre 99 and their lunatic Fringe. At 7pm I was at Theatre 99 for a nearly sold [...]
Vive la revolution! Power to the people!
Ticketmaster seems to have cleared up the problems last weekend that were leading it to tell hopeful Piccolo-goers that a variety of shows were sold out when in fact there were plenty of seats still available. The snafu was, understandably, sending show producers across the festival program into apoplectic fits. The situation was exacerbated by [...]
Blogging the old-fashioned way
If you’ve noticed the most recent issue of the City Paper, which hit the streets this morning – and it’s hard not to notice; our annual Spoleto kickoff Buzz-O-Meter issue has roughly the heft of a telephone book – then you’ll hopefully understand why the Lowbrow has been a little preoccupied lately. But with that [...]
Wanted: Big Brother buffoonery
One of my favorite things about Charleston has always been the willingness of its artists to take subversive swipes at the establishment. Taggers, street artists, guerrilla designers, practical jokers, whatever you want to call them, they make things interesting. This, after all, is the city where Shephard Fairey, of OBEY fame, grew up and cut [...]
Roses for Daisey
Two-time Spoleto Festival vet Mike Daisey got a shock last Friday night when, during a performance of his monologue Invincible Summer at the American Repertory Theater in Boston (he first performed it here for last year’s Spoleto program), 87 members of his audience stood up and walked out en masse. As the group marched wordlessly [...]
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 [...]