Tickets on sale now for Holiday Spirits at the Driehaus Museum

From left: Scott Olson, Sydney Ray and Khnemu Menu-Ra in 2025’s Holiday Spirits at The Driehaus Museum (Photo by Maria Burnham/For Ghostlight Ensemble)

We’re excited to announce that tickets are now on sale for our holiday show, Holiday Spirits, at the Driehaus Museum. This annual event, featuring adaptations of Victorian ghost stories told throughout the museum, is one of our most popular offerings and is only available for two nights: Thursday December 10 and Friday, December 11. Tickets must be reserved in advance, as this show always sells out.

This year we’ve introduced a new story — adapted from The Fourth Wall by A.M. Burrage — and timed entry. The timed entries, in 30-minute increments, will be available beginning at 5:30 p.m. Patrons are asked to show up 15 minutes before their entry time. There will be no late seating for this show.

More information is available on our website, including play summaries.

Hope to see you as we gather ‘round the fireplaces of the Driehaus Museum.

Ghostlight joins with Driehaus Museum to present 'The Shadow of A Doubt' in March

Ghostlight joins with the Richard H. Driehaus Museum in March to present a staged reading of the recently rediscovered play, The Shadow of A Doubt, by novelist Edith Wharton. The play is part of our For Your (Re)Consideration series that explores the works of historically overlooked female writers.

Set at the turn of the twentieth century, The Shadow of a Doubt, explores the issues surrounding social position, remarriage, the roles of women and euthanasia. Replete with Wharton’s trademark wit and skewering of Gilded Age manners, the play centers around nurse Kate Tredennis, who marries John Derwent, a widower of one of Kate’s former patients and friends. Elevated into society through her marriage, Kate is a model wife and stepmother, but she feels uneasy with her new position and faces constant scrutiny for her lowlier background. Soon, her unease is manifested when a man from her past casts suspicion on Kate and accuses her in the first Mrs. Derwent’s death.

The reading runs about 90 minutes with an intermission. A brief talkback will follow.

More information is available on our show page here, and on the Driehaus Museum’s website here.