To attempt creating, let alone staging, an opera about a 14-year-old Black boy’s execution requires near superhuman artistic power—along with heaping doses of audacity or guts. More likely, Frances Pollack, the young composer of “Stinney: An American Execution,” simply felt driven to dramatize the heinous event in 1944. Whatever “it” was that led her to...
And now, the announcement you’ve been waiting for… THE 2022 FESTIVAL SEASON – JULY 15-31 AIDA Dynamic. Passionate. Timeless. A triumphant rock musical and winner of four Tony Awards with unforgettable music by Elton John. STINNEY: AN AMERICAN EXECUTION Powerful. Moving. Provocative. A relevant, thought-provoking new opera confronting South Carolina’s history of racial injustice. CLASSIC...
Announcing Glow’s 2021 Summer Festival Season This August 19-29 we promise to reflect on all that we’ve been through and celebrate all that lies ahead. We’re preparing to #GlowOn with live performances! In August we’ll bring you a compact, safe and innovative season that provides everything you’ve come to expect from Glow: thought-provoking, relevant and...
Glow’s Raising Voices series performances are known for providing a microphone to hot button issues. Kicking off their 2020 series, The Earth Has Music uses music, poetry and dance to focus on one of the most urgent issues in both Greenville and the world today: Climate Change. “It’s an issue that every second of every...
By Lillie Kieken (Greenville SC) Running July 18th- August 3rd at The Warehouse Theatre, Glow Lyric Theatre’s 9th Annual Summer Festival features Carol Hall’s hilarious comedy The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s adored classic My Fair Lady, and Georges Bizet’s thrilling opera Carmen! The courageous as well as the...
For the first time in its ten years of producing opera and musical theatre in the Upstate, Glow Lyric Theatre is now expanding to a permanent year round office and creative space. Starting December 1, Glow’s new office will be located on Greenville’s artistic West End at 811 Pendleton Street, allowing Glow to create a...
