“Ghost Light Now & Then” is a “time-fluid” play that is both historic and contemporary. A ghost light is a single light left on onstage when a theater is otherwise dark. There is a superstition that every theater has ghosts and that ghost lights provide illumination for the ghosts to perform. New Yorkers Becky and Mandy are not immune to the homophobia that has threatened their marriage. During an inexplicable seismic event in 2017, they are flung through a window into the Greenwich Village Theater in the early twentieth century. Inspired by “Alice in Wonderland” and “The Wizard of Oz,” they search for a pathway back home. The women discover that issues and conflicts confronting their world—homophobia, racism and anti-Semitism—haven’t changed in a century. They learn life lessons about prejudice, trust and love while seeking an exit to the present day. Wandering through remnants of scenery, they encounter ghosts from productions that haunt the site of the theater that was demolished in 1930. Characters and snatches of dialogue from these productions of the past are woven into this contemporary play.

Featuring Danielle Aziza, Amanda Boekelheide, Rachel Drayke, Robert Gonzales Jr., Micha Lazare, Brandon Sngdnc Mellette and Steph Van Vlack.

Directed by Robert Gonzales Jr. and Barbara Kahn
Set & Lighting Design by Mark Marcante
Costume Design by Everett Clark
Sound Design and Operation by Joy Linsheid
Set Dressing by Litza Colon
Production Stage Managed by Bill Bradford

PLEASE NOTE: The production will run Thursdays-Saturdays at 8 p.m. and Sundays at 3 p.m. from March 2 to March 19.

Ticket are $15. For more information or to purchase tickets online, please visit http://theaterforthenewcity.net/ghostlightnowandthen.html

Partial funding for the production is provided by The Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation.