Drag! Burlesque! OPERA! Glitter and Be Gay is BACK for another year of operatic buffoonery. See professional singers and drag artists giving performances worthy of the Lyric Opera stage with a silly (and sometimes filthy) twist. You won’t want to miss this one-night-only event, so get your tips and opera glasses ready!

Sandra is an accomplished professor, comfortable in her position until a racist cartoon is nailed to her office door; Sara is a slave in the Deep South, fighting for her freedom and spying for the union as the nation is pulled into Civil War. Despite the century between them, both women raise their voice against the institutions of racism and misogyny that hold them back. Dominique Morriseau’s (author of Detroit ’67 and Skeleton Crew) Confederates leaps through time to trace the identities of these two Black American women and the truths that bond them.

Life has beaten Jessie down. Spiraling between a failed marriage, a cruel son, and an aging parent, Jessie is determined to take control over the one sliver of life left to her. When new horrors batter at her daily; when society isolates her and the world turns to chaos; when a promised future dwindles and her hope fades: Jessie digs up her father’s old pistol. Marsha Norman’s Pulitzer Prize winning play catapults through a mother and daughter’s darkest day together.