GLOW Lyric Theatre – Black Broadway | Review by Shari Tingle, tingle.shari@gmail.com GLOW Lyric Theatre’s 2023 Revue show is all about celebrating Black theatre artists and the legacies they’ve made to American theatre – and it is just so much fun! Sharing songs that run the gamut of musical theatre, this show will have you...
Link to article: https://operawire.com/glow-lyric-theatre-to-present-the-handmaids-tale-as-part-of-2023-festival/ JUL 19, 2023 Glow Lyric Theatre to Present ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ As Part of 2023 Festival By David Salazar Glow Lyric Theatre is set to present “The Handmaid’s Tale” on July 28, 2023. The production by the South Carolina-based company will be part of the organization’s 2023 Festival season, which kicks off...
Welcome to Glow Lyric Theatre’s Cabaret. 1998. 1972. Those are three major milestones of Cabaret, whose two musical versions became blockbusters, as did Bob Fosse’s later film adaptation. After the musical’s Broadway revival, the movie forever stamped Liza Minelli and Joel Grey as the standard bearers of their respective characters. Yet, with its eight Oscars,...
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...
