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  • Audition for Ghost Lite Presents: Late Night with Lucifer

    Posted on February 23, 2013 by Ghost Light in 2012-2013 Season, Ghost Lite, New Plays

    Auditions for our next Ghost Lite show is Wednesday February 27th 6:30-10 pm. More details on TPS! Ghost Lite features original, comedic one-acts written by local playwrights. Each Ghost Lite show plays on the themes of the Ghost Light Theatricals mainstage production it is paired with. Tickets are only $5 and available exclusively at the [...]

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  • Season 11 announced…and thank you!

    Posted on February 18, 2013 by Ghost Light in Battle of the Bards, New Plays

    Thank you to all of our VERY generous voters at Battle of the Bards VII! We raised over $8,500 and broke a Bards record for overall money raised and highest amount of votes for one show. Announcing our 2013-2014 season… Season 11 – All is Fair in Love and War The Importance of Being Earnest [...]

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  • Audition for Eugene O’Neill’s The Hairy Ape

    Posted on January 11, 2013 by Ghost Light in 2012-2013 Season

    This version of The Hairy Ape will combine abstract movement, choreographed stage violence, shadow work, and performance art to tell the story of a brutish, unthinking, middle-aged laborer known as Yank, who tries to find a sense of belonging in a world more and more controlled by the rich. We will be using the original [...]

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  • We Won A Footlight Award from the Seattle Times!

    Posted on January 3, 2013 by Ghost Light in 2011-2012 Season

    The Seattle Times gave us a 2012 Footlight Award for our production of The Last Days of Judas Iscariot! Congratulations to all and happy new year!

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  • Meet Our Bards VII Directors

    Posted on January 3, 2013 by Ghost Light in 2012-2013 Season, Battle of the Bards, New Plays

    Battle of the Bards VII is February 15 & 16, 2013. Meet our directors – Danielle Franich (director, Black Vengeance) is excited to be working again with Nathaniel Porter and with this great group of actors. She has directed The Woodsman, Brews and Bards, Sister Cities and Desdemona: A Play about a Handkerchief with Emerald [...]

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  • Meet Our Bards VII Playwrights

    Posted on January 3, 2013 by Ghost Light in 2012-2013 Season, Battle of the Bards, New Plays

    Battle of the Bards VII is February 15 and 16, 2013. Here are our playwrights for this year – Lori Lee Haener (playwright, In Fear of you I Do Shake) studied improvisation at the Groundlings Theatre in L.A.,  Second City L.A. and Unexpected Productions.  Lori Lee has co-written and co-produced Haener vs. Haener with her [...]

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  • Audition for Ghost Lite!

    Posted on December 17, 2012 by Ghost Light in 2012-2013 Season, Ghost Lite, New Plays

    Come be a part of this exciting new work! http://tpsonline.org/auditions/auddb.php?Aud_ID=22546 GHOST LITE PRESENTS The Rest is Silence by Justin Ison & Stephen Scheide Directed by Justin Ison January 25, 26, and February 1, 2 at 10:30 p.m. Hamlet’s best friend Horatio has become the world’s first paranormal psychologist. Since, it is well-known, spirits cannot find [...]

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  • Audition for Paper Bullets – Winner of Battle of the Bards VI!

    Posted on November 5, 2012 by Ghost Light in 2012-2013 Season, Battle of the Bards, New Plays

    Details here! http://tpsonline.org/auditions/auddb.php?Aud_ID=22468 Audition/Interview Dates: 11/12 & 11/13 6:30 – 10:00 pm email for appointment Callbacks or second audition/interview? 11/17 10:00 am – 2:00 pm Audition Requirements: 1-2 minute contemporary monologue: fast talking, tragicomic ones are preferred (preferred playwrights: Labute, Lucas, Shepard, Sorkin, Mamet) Describe any monetary compensation: At this time Ghost Light Theatricals is [...]

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  • Improv and a live band!

    Posted on October 24, 2012 by Ghost Light in 2012-2013 Season

    Scapin has a live band and is improvised every night! The cast uses traditional Commedia techniques mixed with modern improvisational workshops to blend the old world clown with a new world punk aesthetic. Mark DeJoy and Asst. Director Justin Ison formed the band, The Spit Takes, to perform 10 brand new 1970s punk-inspired songs Mark [...]

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  • Sweet party!

    Posted on October 14, 2012 by Ghost Light in 2012-2013 Season

    Thanks to everyone who came out to our Season 10 Kick-Off Party! We danced, sold some art, and ate cake with a dinosaur on it. Even Batman came! See you in two weeks for the opening of Scapin!

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  • Season 10 Kick-Off Party!

    Posted on September 17, 2012 by Ghost Light in 2012-2013 Season

    Season 10 Kick-Off Party Saturday, October 13 from 6-10 p.m. The Ballard Underground (Home of Ghost Light Theatricals) We’re turning 10 this year! Come see the beautiful artwork of Mark Siano during the Ballard Artwalk and stay for a night of drinking and dancing! We couldn’t have made it to 10 without you, so help [...]

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  • LAPD SMU at the 2012 Seattle Fringe Festival

    Posted on August 26, 2012 by Ghost Light in 2012-2013 Season

    Ghost Light Theatricals is proud to present LAPD SMU as part of the 2012 Seattle Fringe Festival! In Los Angeles, the very worst homicides are handled by an elite squad of detectives — the Serious Murders Unit. They are: LAPDSMU. This week’s episode features the elusive snake-in-the-box-killer, and Detectives Shepard and Kolwicki are faced with [...]

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  • Auditions for Scapin and Hamlet

    Posted on July 12, 2012 by Julia in New Plays

    Auditions are coming up for Scapin and Hamlet July 16-18! Ladies, we’re swapping the gender in Hamlet, so we need you!  See our TPS listing for more information: http://tpsonline.org/auditions/auddb.php?Aud_ID=22152

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  • Seattle Fringe Festival

    Posted on May 28, 2012 by Julia in 2012-2013 Season

    We were selected in a lottery to participate in the Seattle Fringe Festival (September 19-23). The schedule for the festival will be announced later this summer. We will be remounting our popular Late Night “LAPD SMU: Reunited with a Vengeance” by David van Wert. In Los Angeles, the very worst homicides are handled by an elite squad [...]

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  • GiveBig Results

    Posted on May 28, 2012 by Julia in New Plays

    Thank you to everyone who gave on May 2 to the Seattle Foundation’s GiveBig campaign. We raised over $1,000 in 24 hours and will be able to upgrade our lighting equipment!

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  • Seattle Foundation’s GiveBig Event

    Posted on May 1, 2012 by Julia in New Plays

    If you’d like to help Ghost Light Theatricals update their woefully out-dated light system, please consider making a donation tomorrow (Wednesday) for the Seattle Foundation’s 2nd Annual GiveBig event. Visit http://www.seattlefoundation.org/npos/Pages/GhostLightTheatricals.aspx on Wednesday, May 2nd. Click on Donate Now, and then click Make a credit card donation. Make a gift of any size. Bask in the joy and gratefulness [...]

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  • Announcing the 2012-2013 Season

    Posted on January 29, 2012 by Rob in 2012-2013 Season, Battle of the Bards

    GLT Presents our 2012-2013 Season: SCAPIN by Moliere THE HAIRY APE by Eugene O’Neill, adaptation by Sean Keeley HAMLET by William Shakespeare And after a fierce battle, the Bards VI Winner is… *drumroll* PAPER BULLETS by John E. Allis! Thank you to all the shows who competed this year, our donors, and to all of [...]

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  • 11:15 check in

    Posted on January 28, 2012 by Rob in 2011-2012 Season, Battle of the Bards

    So the votes keep coming in and things are pretty tight right now. We’ll be closing up the online voting in 13 minutes. Any donation made after that we’ll gladly accept, but won’t be able to count it toward a show. I hope it’s been fun following so far. there’s just a little bit too [...]

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  • Second Intermission

    Posted on January 28, 2012 by Rob in 2011-2012 Season, Battle of the Bards

    Apocalypse Soon was met with large cheers tonight and it certainly showed up in the voting. Here are the scores: Apocalypse Soon: 854 Mack the Knife: 733 Paper Bullets: 653

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  • First Intermission

    Posted on January 28, 2012 by Rob in 2011-2012 Season, Battle of the Bards

    The Lobby was filled with audience members after the final night of first show Mack the Knife. The intermission break pushed Mack into a tentative lead and the voting is currently laid out as such: Mack the Knife: 712 Paper Bullets: 610 Apocalypse Soon: 603

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  • Closing Night

    Posted on January 28, 2012 by Rob in 2011-2012 Season, Battle of the Bards

    After a bordering on insane rush to the bar and an audience of almost 100 people, we are about halfway through the first show. We started basically on time (yay!). There has already been some fast action, someone dropped a Benjamin, baby. We already ran out of red wine, but Brenan went and picked up [...]

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  • Final Tickets

    Posted on January 28, 2012 by Rob in 2011-2012 Season, Battle of the Bards

    The final tickets for tonight’s Battle of the Bards should sell in the next 10 minutes. if you are really intent on scoring seats, you had better get here soon! Here’s the score: Paper Bullets: 551 Mack the Knife: 532 Apocalypse Soon: 531

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  • Scores

    Posted on January 27, 2012 by Rob in 2011-2012 Season, Battle of the Bards

    Are up to the minute current on the Battle of the Bards VI page. Chizzity check it out.

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  • The apocalypse

    Posted on January 27, 2012 by Rob in 2011-2012 Season, Battle of the Bards

    Has come and gone, and I got some ice cream. Things are going well. Voting update will come along shortly, once we’ve tallied all these intermission votes!

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  • Come and get a Beer

    Posted on January 27, 2012 by Rob in 2011-2012 Season, Battle of the Bards

    From Keg Mistress Chelsie Q Hanner. She’ll pour the hell out of a Redhook ESB for you and she’s got the hat to prove it!

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  • It Begins

    Posted on January 27, 2012 by Rob in 2011-2012 Season, Battle of the Bards

    This is the house for opening night. It is very full. We have an exciting night of theatre set up for them. Keep those votes rolling in! We only started 10 minutes late and most of the audience was here on time, a fantastic beginning for sure!

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  • Opening Night

    Posted on January 27, 2012 by Rob in 2011-2012 Season, Battle of the Bards

    There is a buzz in the space as one of the cast members of Mack the Knife plays with the incredibly out of tune piano, we finish the cleaning and prepping and unloading stuff for the night. The keg is ready to be tapped, most of the booze is either refridgerated or on the way [...]

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  • Mack the Knife

    Posted on January 26, 2012 by Rob in 2011-2012 Season, Battle of the Bards

    With all the flair and flash of the 20′s, Mack the Knife brought a new layer out of the Scottish play, with a twittering group of molls, a cross-dressing doorlady and enough olde-timey talk to start a speakeasy, it was the perfect sing-songy way to end our tech. I’ll update the standings when I get [...]

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  • Paper Bullets

    Posted on January 26, 2012 by Rob in 2011-2012 Season, Battle of the Bards

    It’s the story of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie and their publicists…. I mean, it’s all about the world of fame scene through the lense of Much Ado About Nothing, with a healthy dose of dance party and balloons. Sadly I could not get any pictures of this show because my camera phone stopped working. [...]

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  • Apocalypse Soon

    Posted on January 26, 2012 by Rob in 2011-2012 Season, Battle of the Bards

    What would happen if you gathered the worlds dieties and religious icons together to decide the fate of Humanity? What if Buddha brought veggie hot dogs and Orpheus brought a guitar? Why that would be Apocalypse Soon, the second show of our Battle of the Bards VI. Here are some photos from the quirky show [...]

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