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Last modified on Thu 6 May 2021 14.32 EDT Some of the finest lockdown digital theatre has addressed the absence of its real-world counterpart. I’m thinking of the National Theatre of Scotland’s Ghost Light, which invoked the spirits of performances past and postponed. Alphabetti in Newcastle upon Tyne is up to something similar with this trio of audio plays, written “in reaction to a lonely theatre”. Three writers conjure with the associations of an empty stage, an unpopulated auditorium, an interval bar sans drinkers. Footage from inside the abandoned Alphabetti, a Mary ...

Singer-songwriter Bob Bradshaw weaves his stories through a blend of roots music forms, drawing from his background as a prose writer and frontman for a rock ‘n’ roll band. Prior to the pandemic, Bradshaw was a live fixture in New England. The Ghost Light, referencing that single light in the theater that stays on after performers and audience have left the premises, is a pandemic-induced metaphor for his ninth studio album. Somehow, he maintains cohesion with 12 vastly different stories, self-contained and not bound by any theme, nor by a consistent set of musicians. Instead, the backin...

The Broadway touring cast of "The Prom" is scheduled to take the Overture Hall stage in Madison in March 2022. Overture Center They were moved to tears by entering the empty, elegant, 400,000-square-foot center for the arts that has been shuttered since March 13 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The musical "Mean Girls" is part of the touring Broadway season coming to the Overture Center in the 2021-22 season.  Overture Center Madison Opera normally performs its full-scale professional operas in the 2,255-seat Overture Hall and the 1,089-seat Capitol Theater. The group ...

The world of the theater has a long history of traditions and superstitions (we’re thinking of you, “The Scottish Play”). But one that’s taken on more prominence and meaning during the pandemic is the story of “the Ghost Light.” Usually a single illuminated electric bulb at the top of a tall fixture and placed front and center on the stage, the Ghost Light is said to give comfort to the spirits that seem to haunt every theater when there’s no performance happening. Others believe its function is to ward off evil spirits. And more practical souls planted on

Ghost Light episode 3: The Varsity Show’s virtual love letter to Columbia Ghost Light episode 3: The Varsity Show’s virtual love letter to Columbia Julian Michaud / Staff Illustrator By Claire Schnatterbeck | April 28, 2021, 10:07 PM How do you involve yourself in a community that you’ve never interacted with in person? The Varsity Show is Columbia’s oldest theater tradition that celebrates what makes life at the University unique. But with a portion of the student body never having set foot on-campus, the show had to not only adapt to a new format, but also cater to an audience l...