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...
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...
