Ghostlight featured on Chicago on Stage

Ghostlight was recently lucky enough to sits down with Karen Topham (aka chicagodramagirl) of Chicago on Stage and talk about our origin and what made us think we could make it in the crowded Chicago theatre scene.

According to the League of Chicago Theatres, there are about 200 theatre companies in the city of Chicago. Wikipedia also lists about this many, as well as thirty long-standing companies that are now defunct. And that doesn’t even begin to include the multitudes of companies that have appeared for a show or three only to vanish into the competitive haze of the Chicago theatre community, which is, without doubt, one of the most incredible live theatre markets in the country, but also one of the most unforgiving. 

Amid this whirl of dramatic achievement and failure, it must take a certain kind of people with a specific kind of audacity to start a whole new company from the ground up, yet that is precisely what Holly Robison and Maria Burnham, late of Strangeloop Theatre, and Chad Wise, founding member of New Millennium Theatre, and seven other founding members including co-artistic director Michael Wagman, are doing with Ghostlight Ensemble Theatre.

Read the entire article here.

Grab something you can use as a weapon! Krampus walks tonight on Krampusnacht

According to folklore, tonight is the night Krampus shows up in towns to punish all the naughty children.

Known as Krampusnacht, or Krampus Night, the evening of December 5 is when Santa Claus' dark companion travels the world bringing switches and coal to those on his list, or — if they've been particularly bad — he captures them in a sack strapped on his back to feast upon later.

Keep Krampus off your back (or rather stay off HIS back), by joining us at Underground Wonder Bar where the Murray family is set to face this Germanic Christmas demon.

Only four performances remain! Get your tickets now for our December run, which begins tonight at 7:30 p.m.

And thanks to everyone who joined us at Martyrs' Krampus Fest last weekend. Check out our photos from the event.

If you missed us at Martyrs, you can still catch us tomorrow night at 5 p.m. as part of the League of Chicago Theatres' Theatre Tag at the 21st Annual Christkindlmarket Chicago. The Christkindlmarket is held at Daley Plaza in the Loop.

For a full list of Theatre Tag performances and more information visit the event page.