Glow’s Match needs to GET LIT! You heard right, we’re getting our match LIT this Spring! Glow has several generous patrons that are matching dollar-for-dollar if we meet our $10,000 goal – but there is one critical catch… we only have ONE month to do it! The 2019 Festival Season of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, My Fair Lady and Carmen is ready to ignite, but...
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Javy Pagan Serves Piragua On-Stage and Greenville Theatre Off-Stage
By Patrick Fretwell As a native of Greenville, Javy Pagan witnessed the rise of theatre in the Upstate. Now as both a performer and marketing director, he’s right in the middle of it. “I try and make sure every family in the Upstate knows they have quality arts entertainment at affordable prices right here...
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Glow Shows Their Animal Love
Valentine’s Day is quickly approaching, and while many may think the greatest love of all is romantic, heart shaped, or chocolate covered, Glow is taking a unique approach to celebrate animal love. All Creatures Great and Small, Glow’s first show in their 2018 Raising Voices Series, tackles the topic of the joys animals bring to our...
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Jenna Tamisiea Demands the Right to Dream with 2018 Season!
Glow’s 2018 season, Demand the Right to Dream, is already set to be a thrilling journey through three legendary pieces of lyrical theatre. The Summer Series lineup includes Beethoven’s Fidelio, Gilbert and Sullivan’s HMS Pinafore, and HAMILTON creator Lin Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights! But what ties these shows together in their pursuit of daring to dream? We...
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Open Mic for Peace: Utilizing Music to Bring Change and Healing
With just one day until Glow’s Open Mic for Peace and Healing, we took the opportunity to sit down and talk with Glow Artistic Director Jenna Tamisiea about why it was time to bring an event geared towards offering Greenville a chance to come out and express their hopes, fears, and dreams of peace world through music and spoken word....
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Chatting with Glow: Falling for Glow and Demanding the Right to Dream!
With Glow’s 2018 season announcement just around the corner, Glow already has big plans for an incredible series! Today, we chat with Glow Artistic Director Jenna Tamisiea and Development Director Leigh Miller to talk about Glow’s Fall for Glow Campaign, and hear about the themes from our upcoming season! Q) Could you tell us a...
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Broadway World Calls HAIR “Must-See Theatre”!
by Neil Shurley “The Age of Aquarius.” “Let the Sunshine In.” “Hair.” Just reading the titles of the songs brings to mind a tired stereotype of drugged-out hippies prancing around blathering about love and flowers. Is there really any way that kind of thing could still be relevant today? Astonishingly, the answer is a resounding yes....
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BWW Previews: GLOW LYRIC SUMMER FESTIVAL SEASON at Fine Arts Center
by Neil Shurley Jun. 29, 2017 How does Jenna Tamisiea get three shows up and running with only a month of rehearsal? “I put a bunch of eclectic, talented, crazy people together and am exploiting them,” she says with a laugh. Tamisiea is the co-founder, with her husband, Christian Elser, of GLOW Lyric Theatre. Tamisiea directs the shows,...
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REVIEW: Glow Lyric Theatre’s Electrifying ‘Hair” is Anything But Static after 50 Years
CAROLINA CURTAIN CALL BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Fifty years after its Off-Broadway premiere, “HAIR” the ultimate counterculture musical is still poignant as ever. One might say Glow Lyric Theatre’s exhilarating revival at the Fine Arts Center in Greenville is fresh as a daisy on a hippie flower crown in the Haight-Ashbury. And what more...
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REVIEW: Glow Lyric Theatre’s ‘The Crucible’ is Compelling Tragic Opera
CAROLINA CURTAIN CALL BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Life as a Puritan in 1692 Massachusetts is doldrums for certain. Why else would its residents implode over land, miscarriages, money, the church and adultery and accuse one other of witchcraft? Discover all of this and the elaborate musicality of Glow Lyric Theatre’s presentation of “The Crucible,”...