Carolina Curtain Call’s Critics’ Picks of the 2017-18 Theatre Season (September 1, 2017 – August 30, 2018) They ain’t the Tonys or even the Suzy Bass Awards, but the Carolina Curtain Call Awards, a hybrid recognition by Upstate critics and theatre...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Closing out Glow Lyric Theatre’s 8th Summer Festival Season is Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Fidelio” and this production is a triumph on all levels. Stage Director Jenna Tamisiea has transported the action in this rarely produced...
BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Glow Lyric Theatre gives a whole new urgency to the term “marrying beneath you” in a delightful and most amusing production of “H.M.S. Pinafore.” With a bouncy and buoyant cast, one of Gilbert & Sullivan’s...
This is a show America needs now more than ever! BY SANDY STAGGS DRAMA CRITIC Jenna Tamisea and Christian Elser have an uncanny sense of timing. Sure, the DACA and DREAMer dilemma has been simmering for years, but how could...
BY SANDY STAGGS ARTS WRITER Invigorated by weeks of 10-hour days of rehearsals and countless other tasks beholden to an Artistic Director’s role, Jenna Tamisiea Elser is exhausted, but gloriously liberated by her art. As co-founder of Glow Lyric Theatre,...
BY SANDY STAGGS ARTS WRITER Unfortunately, it is merely a coincidence that Glow Lyric Theatre’s performance dialogue on gun violence “Armed” is occurring just two weeks after the Parkland massacre in Florida. This epic event was planned months ago and...
