The Piccolo shows: We’re producing Heathers: the Musical, which is younger and edgier, and Dirty Blonde (about May West), which appeals to an older crowd and plays well for an audience versed in theater. That’s why, in addition to hosting three companies during Piccolo, we’re offering access to multiple companies during the year. We’re the only downtown company that owns its own space, so a big initiative is to make the theater accessible to other groups in need of one.
You’ll see something totally off the wall at What If? You can find a wide range at Footlight, but always count on a good, standard theater experience.Īrt for all: The peninsula is becoming increasingly less affordable for artists, which dries up the artistic culture that makes Charleston so wonderful. You can go to the Dock Street for Broadway-quality musicals, and you can get really artistic theater at PURE. I’ve done all the bits and pieces, so I bring an understanding of how they all fit together.Ī fresh take: I want Footlight to provide something no one else can, so I’m pushing our artists to be creative and produce extraordinary theater that’s not so traditional, even if the source material might be seen as such.įinding a niche: The beauty of Charleston is that there are so many arts groups downtown, and they all produce something different. I’ve been an actor, technical director, marketer, development director, and finance director. Joining Footlight: The board was so gung-ho to have me on because I’ve been very involved in the arts in Charleston. Now I take a back seat, but What If? is still going strong. We knew we wanted to start something here that would really make a mark, so we launched with the musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch. We both have degrees in theater and have been in it our whole lives-even running a small company in Michigan together. The What If? story: I founded the company What If? with Kyle Barnette nearly nine years ago when we first moved to Charleston. As executive director, he steps into what may be his greatest role yet, intent on seeing the historical Footlight Players grow alongside its home city. And in February, a new commander took the helm-longtime actor and theater veteran Brian Porter, whose resume includes decades of experience in companies around the country (and the Holy City). Going on 90 years later, it’s a theater company producing shows-including not one, but two during Piccolo Spoleto-in the renovated cotton warehouse the organization bought back in 1934. Commander Charles Russell Price to provide entertainment in the Charleston Navy Yard. In 1931, The Footlight Players began as a string of plays directed by Lt. Brian Porter outside Footlight Players Theatre find the company at.
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