Theatre Wesleyan is pleased to announce the first production of the 2017/18 season, Blithe Spirit, the improbable farce in three acts by Noël Coward.

Blithe Spirit will be directed by Connie Whitt-Lambert, Professor of Theatre, and will open on Thursday, Sept. 21 for a limited run of seven performances through Sunday, Oct. 1.

Performances will be held at the Thad Smotherman Theatre on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and there will be one matinee on Oct. 1 at 2 p.m.

Tickets are now available at the Theatre Wesleyan website. 

About the show

The smash comedy hit of the London and Broadway stages, this much-revived classic from the playwright of Private Lives offers up fussy, cantankerous novelist Charles Condomine, re-married but haunted (literally) by the ghost of his late first wife, the clever and insistent Elvira who is called up by a visiting "happy medium", one Madame Arcati. As the (worldly and un-) personalities clash, Charles' current wife Ruth is accidentally killed, "passes over", joins Elvira and the two "blithe spirits" haunt the hapless Charles into perpetuity.

Presented by special arrangement with Samuel French Publishing Company, Inc.