The GhostLight Theatre announces that they have been given an incredibly generous anonymous gift of $100,000. The donor has agreed to match 2-to-1 any and all dollars raised up to $50,000 given towards the GhostLight 2025 Theatre Season. The GhostLight is pleased to announce this gift in order to springboard their fundraising efforts as well as to kick off donations this Giving Tuesday (Tuesday, December 3rd).
The GhostLight has also received a 2nd anonymous donation in order to name the annual Emerging Artist Award after theatre friend and patron Bud Shuler. This past November 10th, this award was given to Paige Mulick along with $1,000 gift for the first of it’s kind as The Bud Shuler Emerging Artist Award. Mulick has been a mainstay this season and since the theatre’s inception, but this season in particular she not only choreographed Bright Star, Rocky Horror & She Kills Monsters, but also starred in and performed the role of The Leading Player in Pippin as well as reprising the role of Janet Weiss in The Rocky Horror Show – The Musical.
“We are incredibly delighted that our donors and patrons continue to step up in major ways towards funding our efforts here in both the Benton Harbor and Southwest Michigan communities,” says General Manager and Artistic Director Paul Mow. “We continue to add educational components to our didactic theatre programming such as CircEsteem and our Young Adult Training Program in order to offer our area performers and designers opportunities to learn even more about how the performing arts can enrich their lives as well as our community as a whole.” Mow continues: “As we turn the page on our first 5 years and begin to explore possibilities of expansion, gifts like these will continue to enliven our own efforts as well as add energy throughout the entire arts district to keep the performing arts alive and well into the next decade.”
The GhostLight 2025 season has grown in leaps and bounds to now include 7-shows next season beginning in February with the Tony-Award winning play Clyde’s written by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Lynn Nottage. This play will be directed by Chicago-based stage director Aaron Boseman, and will run from February 13th-23rd. Next up will be the Broadway musical The Last 5 Years written by GhostLight favorite composer Jason Robert Brown and directed by Artistic Director Paul Mow which will run April 10-13th with an additional run out planned to The Acorn Theatre on April 18th. The Last 5 Years will feature star performers Wes Shenker as Jaime and Paige Mulick as Cathy. The 3rd show to kick off the summer festivities will be the smash Broadway hit RENT written by Jonathan Larson and directed by Chicago-based director Spencer Diedrick will run June 12th-29th. The GhostLight Young Adult Production for 2025 will be The Wolves, a play written by Sarah DeLappe, and directed by Lindsay Gilmore Gaspari produced July 17th-20th at The GhostLight. Rounding out the summer will be the 1980’s classic musical CHESS written by Tim Rice and the band members of ABBA, Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus and directed by Paul Mow. CHESS will feature favorite Dan Maxon as Anatoly and Abby Murray Vachon as Florence. The fall will see a 3rd consecutive reprise of The Rocky Horror Show – The Musical over one weekend October 30th-November 2nd including a midnight show on Halloween night!! Finalizing the seven show season will be a new contemporary play, The Thanksgiving Play written by Native American playwright Larissa Fasthorse. The Thanksgiving Play will run November 13th-23rd.
Auditions for Clyde’s will take place December 9th and 10th at The GhostLight Theatre. In order to donate or sponsor one of the shows next season at the GhostLight Theatre, please visit https://www.ghostlightbh.com/
For more information, visit: www.ghostlightbh.com or call
Paul Mow directly at (646) 406-6856.
The GhostLight Theatre, an innovative playhouse with a mission to enlighten, inspire,
and illuminate Benton Harbor and the surrounding region,
is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
101 Hinkley Street, Benton Harbor, MI 49022
