By Patrick Fretwell In a summer of sellout crowds, performing in the heart of downtown Greenville, and demanding the right to dream, Glow Lyric Theatre is ready to give back to Upstate audiences one more time. On August 5th starting at 7 PM, the Glow Lyric Theatre Gala will take place and feature musical performances...
by Patrick Fretwell Some will rejoice. Some will be shocked. But anyone who sees Glow Lyric Theatre’s In the Heights will learn. Glow Lyric Theatre’s production of Lin Manuel Miranda’s Tony award-winning musical recognizes not only the cultural significance of a specific New York City neighborhood, but also displays that the American dream comes in all...
Typically at the end of a season at Glow, we’re able to reflect on all the incredible individuals that help our visions to become a reality. From our actors, our technicians, our sponsors, and our audience members, there are so many people responsible for helping Glow to create and build on our success. But with...
To our beloved patrons, friends, performers and friends throughout our community. Yesterday, while Christian and I were making our plans to have a quiet, lovely Valentine’s Day dinner at home, news broke of a mass shooting at Parkland High School in Florida. On a day meant for celebrating love in all its forms, we were...
Jenna Tamisiea is the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Glow Lyric Theatre in Greenville, South Carolina, a company devoted to placing opera and musical theatre at the center of difficult social and political conversations. In today’s article, she reflects on the experience of starting an opera company — particularly one that is politically vocal in...
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....
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,...
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...
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,”...
POSTED BY: DAVID SALAZAR JULY 11, 2017 It is rare to see a production company put on a combination of opera, operetta, and musical theater. While most viewers recognize the relationship between the three, they often struggle to assimilate them in the same breath, much less the same stage. But the three can be viewed on the...
