Footlight Players

09/01/2026

🔥 CHARLESTON — GREASE IS SELLING OUT! 🔥

SOLD OUT since Opening Night and heading into our THIRD WEEK this Friday! If you haven’t made it to Rydell High yet, NOW is the time to grab your tickets.

Audiences are calling it:
“PURE JOY!” saying it “Brings the movie to life so beautifully!”

And every weekend brings something new:
Saturday Costume Nights — this week: SCHOOL SPIRIT NIGHT!
A different surprise TEEN ANGEL cameo every weekend
GREASE-inspired drinks
🎶 And one huge, high-energy night of nostalgia and fun!

Seats are disappearing fast. Don’t wait.
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📍 Queen Street Playhouse | Through Sept. 13

08/31/2026

MEET THE CAST!

Check out this lineup of incredibly talented artists who are giving you Grease goodness every weekend at the QSP!

08/29/2026

If you’ve ever wondered just how many jobs one person can do during a single performance at Footlight Players, our Executive Director / Tech Master / Sound Designer / Actor / Building Steward Brian J. Porter gave us a pretty good answer last night during Grease.

For this particular monster of a show, Brian designed the sound for the entire production AND runs the sound board every night. But last night was particularly wild and eventful, even for him.

In the course of ONE performance, Brian:

- Set up all 19 cast mics before the show.
- Ran sound check and adjusted everyone’s levels.
- Gave the curtain speech, then immediately ran upstairs to the booth to start the show.
- At intermission, got dressed for his surprise gig as this weekend’s Teen Angel cameo.
- Started Act 2 and discovered two actors’ mics had gone out.
- Ran backstage and successfully fixed both of them.
- Then popped onstage and gave a hilarious and fabulous performance of “Beauty School Dropout.”
- And THEN ran right back upstairs to the booth to finish running the show.

BEAST!

Brian works passionately for Footlight, usually doing about 47 different jobs at once. Whether he’s running the theatre, taking care of our historic Queen Street Playhouse, designing and running a show, solving the inevitable backstage emergency—or occasionally jumping ON the stage himself—Brian puts an enormous amount of work, talent and heart into everything he does.

Footlight Players is incredibly fortunate to have him at the center of so much that happens both onstage and behind the scenes.
So today, we’re giving a very well-deserved shoutout to the one and only Brian Porter!

And if you’re seeing Grease this weekend, you just might get to see the beast himself step out from behind the sound board and into the spotlight!

08/26/2026

Our Danny and Sandy (Aaron Hancock and Jenna Newman)shared an impromptu performance of Summer Nights this morning on Lowcountry Live WCIV

This entire coming weekend of GREASE is headed toward a sell out (just like opening weekend!) so grab your tickets asap at footlightplayers.net

08/25/2026

GREASE IS THE WORD—and audiences are having an absolute blast!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Pure fun from start to finish!”

With sold-out performances, high-energy dancing, iconic songs, plenty of laughs, and all the nostalgia you love, GREASE is the feel-good night out of the summer!

Performances are selling fast, so don’t wait—grab your tickets now and join Danny, Sandy, the T-Birds, and the Pink Ladies at Rydell High!

🎟️ GREASE runs through September 13 at the Queen Street Playhouse.

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08/19/2026

We’re live this morning with our lovely friends at Palmetto Life!

08/14/2026

Thank you Charleston City Paper for the Grease and Season 95 shoutout!

The historic Queen Street Playhouse will heat up Aug. 21 when the acclaimed Broadway show and movie Grease light up the Footlight Players’ 95th season that will be filled with laughter.

08/03/2026

What an incredible honor for Footlight Players!

We are proud to announce that Footlight Players has been recognized by the State of South Carolina with a Historic Preservation Award for our stewardship of the Queen Street Playhouse.

The award was presented at the South Carolina State House on July 30, recognizing our commitment to preserving not only a historic building, but also a space where creativity, community, and the performing arts continue to thrive.

This honor belongs to every volunteer, artist, staff member, patron, donor, and audience member who has helped keep the Queen Street Playhouse alive for generations. Your support makes this legacy possible.

We are deeply grateful for this recognition and remain committed to preserving our historic home while creating unforgettable theatre experiences for years to come.

Here’s to honoring our past, celebrating our present, and building our future.

07/30/2026

Thank you Holy City Sinner for the Grease and Season 95 preview!

As audiences search for a break from the noise, stress and uncertainty of everyday life, Footlight Players is inviting Charleston audiences to do what live theater does best: laugh, celebrate and escape.

07/26/2026

KIDS AUDITIONS FOR A CHRISTMAS STORY

It's not too late to sign your kid(s) up for our A CHRISTMAS STORY auditions on Sunday August 9th at the Queen Street Playhouse.

We are casting all of the kids roles in the show and are looking for ages 9 - 12, boy and girls. Simply click on the link below and you can fill out the audition information at the bottom of the page!