By John JeterGuest Writer 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...
By Zoe OliphantGuest Writer “What does it mean to be a man in the eyes of God?” What does it mean to be a man in the eyes of men? Are the perceptions of the image that these two entities...
BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC Do not miss Sunday’s final performance (2 pm_ of Stinney: An American Execution, a powerful, thought-provoking, new opera that is most timely and confronts our own state’s history of racial injustice. George Junius Stinney Jr. (played...
BY STEVE WONGDRAMA CRITIC There was a lot of love on stage during Greenville Theatre’s gala celebration of being the Upstate’s oldest and largest producing playhouse for 96 years. Gala 96: A Broadway Love Story was a glitzy and glamorous...
BY SANDY STAGGSDRAMA CRITIC Converse Opera Theatre emerges back from Covid shutdown with a glossy, opulent Hansel and Gretel, the Petrie School of Music’s first full-scale production since the campus was re-branded as co-ed Converse University. And this opera is...
Carolina Curtain Call congratulates a great artist and friend, Jenna Elser, artistic director of Glow Lyric Theatre in Greenville, for winning of The American Prize in DIRECTING—The Charles Nelson Reilly Prize (theater/musical theater division), 2021, for “West Side Story”. And this is after Glow was just awarded...
