Ghost Light Now & Then is a “time-fluid” play that is both historic and contemporary. A lesbian couple, whose marriage is threatened by family interference, is thrown into 1920’s Greenwich Village, where they learn life lessons about prejudice, trust and love while seeking their way back home. Written by Barbara Kahn. 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 decoration by Lytza Colon. Stage Manager Bill Bradford. Featuring Danielle Aziza, Amanda Boekelheide, Rachel Drayke, Robert Gonzales Jr., Micha Lazare, Brandon Sngdnc Mellette and Steph Van Vlack. March 2 – 19 2017. Thursdays – Saturdays at 8 P.M., Sundays at 3 P.M. Tickets are $15. Group, senior and student discounts available. Information/Reservations: 212-254-1109. Theater for the New City, 155 1st Ave@ 10th St. Subway: L to 1st Ave, 6 to Astor Place. www.theaterforthenewcity.net

Ghost Light Now & Then. 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 onstage. During an inexplicable seismic event in 2017, New Yorkers Becky and Mandy are flung through a window into the early twentieth century Greenwich Village Theater. Inspired by “Alice in Wonderland” and “The Wizard of Oz,” the play follows their journey home. They wander through remnants of scenery, encountering 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. The women discover that issues and conflicts confronting their world—homophobia, racism and anti-Semitism–haven’t changed in a century, and take the lessons they learn back to the present.