hear from Dusty Slay (who, in case you missed it, recently killed on Fallon). 7 at 9 p.m., check out Jeremy McLellan and on Fri. The Queen Street Comedy Series, hosted by Bill Davis, features local comedians performing on the first Friday of each month. 27, head over for a performance from Doug Jones Everybody Doug Jones, Forty Mile Detour, and Wild Ponies. OctoBy Holy City Sinner Small Ensemble Cast Bring Stephen King’s Psycho Thriller to Life at Queen Street Playhouse By: Jeff Walker, Entertainment Writer Footlight Players offer up a pre-cursor to the Halloween season as they turn in a enthralling and nightmarish rendition of ‘Misery’. 28, you can hear from Mike Farris and the Fortunate Few, and on Thurs. Tonight, Pierce Edens and Johnny Holliday perform. The Queen Street Harmony Series, held on Tuesdays or Thursdays and featuring live and often local music. In a press release, Footlight Players announces, “The Board of Directors is thrilled to announce that the building will once again don the historic name of Queen Street Playhouse in honor of the company’s initiative to transform the facility into a performing arts event center, the only one of its kind in downtown Charleston.”Īnd while Footlight assures Charleston that “Footlight Players is not going anywhere,” they say they are most certainly changing things up and “expanding their repertoire under a larger umbrella.”Ĭheck out upcoming repertoire expansions including: Footlight Players is the oldest theater company in Charleston, in operation since 1931 they’ve occupied the old cotton warehouse at 20 Queen St. will continue to operate as the home of the Footlight Players company, the venue is introducing more varied productions under its new moniker, from a ‘Queen Street Harmony’ series, presented by Awendaw Green a comedy series from Bill Davis and poetry nights with Marcus Amaker. Tickets are $25 for adults and $15 for students.Today Footlight Players announced that, in an effort to “return to its roots,” the company is rebranding their space, located at 20 Queen St., as the Queen Street Playhouse. The two will perform an intimate collection of some of their favorite Broadway and standard tunes along with sharing some stories behind the music and their experiences in the world of theatre.Īccompanied only by piano and welcoming a handful of special guests, Porter and Anderson hope their new cabaret show will inspire music and theatre lovers throughout Charleston as they help Footlight Players and Queen Street Playhouse launch the Queen Street Music Series with their first show of the New Year with In the Key of B. Anderson too has kept a busy theatre schedule throughout the years with memorable roles such as Little Edie in Grey Gardens, Frau Blucher in Young Frakenstein, and a regular featured artist on the stage with 34 West Theatre Company.īecca and Brian, the titular ‘B’s of the cabaret show’s title, surprisingly have never shared the stage opposite each other in a regular musical and have only performed together live a couple of times, most recently in What If? Productions’ Carol of the Belles holiday piano bar. Along the way he has picked up many accolades for his performances as the Emcee in Cabaret, Seymour in Little Shop of Horror, and as one of the murderous duo in Thrill Me, The Leopold and Loeb Story. Porter, who is also Footlight Player’s Executive Director, made his debut on the Charleston theatre scene in 2010 playing the title role of Hedwig in Hedwig & the Angry Inch at the American Theatre, a role he will reprise this coming June with What If? Productions. Footlight Players and the Queen Street Playhouse kick off 2020 and their expanding Queen Street Music Series, with two of Charleston’s finest vocal talents together on stage as Brian Porter and Becca Anderson join forces for a new cabaret show In the Key of B, on both January 10th and 11th at the Queen Street Playhouse.īoth two time winners of Charleston City Paper’s Best of Awards for Best Actor and Actress in Charleston, Porter and Anderson have been celebrated throughout the years as two of Charleston’s most versatile and experienced theatre talents.
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