Opera Grand Rapids & Colvin Theatrical Present Film of ‘Stinney: An American Execution Opera’

(Photo credit: Pocket Cinema Camera) Opera Grand Rapids and Colvin Theatrical with Blackmagic Design have announced the film version of “Stinney: An American Execution Opera.” “Stinney: An American Execution” spotlights the agony of the injustice of the 1944 wrongful execution of George Stinney Jr., the youngest person to be legally executed in America. The opera was composed by Frances Pollock {…}

Khary Wilson, Shanelle Woods, Andrew Wannigman, & Lloyd Reshard to Headline Glow Lyric Theatre’s ‘Stinney: An American Execution’

Greenville, South Carolina’s Glow Lyric Theatre, has announced the Southern premiere of Frances Pollock and Tia Price’s new opera, “Stinney: An American Execution,” at the Fred Collins Performing Arts Stage in Greenville, South Carolina’s Kroc Center from July 22 to 31, 2022. The opera relates the story of George Stinney, Jr., a 14-year-old African-American boy wrongly convicted and executed in {…}