Blithe Spirit

Name: Blithe Spirit
Start: 2025-09-19T19:30:00-07:00
End: 2025-09-19T22:00:00-07:00
Location: 111 1st Ave W, Albany, OR, United States, Oregon 97321

Schedule

Fri Sep 19 2025 at 07:30 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

111 1st Ave W, Albany, OR, United States, Oregon 97321 | Albany, OR

Albany Civic Theater is proud to present performances of the first show in our 75th anniversary season, Blithe Spirit!
Directed by Shauna Kiefiuk
Evening performances (7:30 PM): September 19, 20, 26, 27*, October 2, 3, 4
Matinee performances (2:30 PM): September 21, 28*
*Closed captioning will be available for these performances for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing through Cue Captions. Learn more here: https://www.cuecaptions.com/
Tickets are available for purchase online at https://app.arts-people.com/?show=286509 or in-person at the box office 45 minutes before the show’s start time.
$5 rush tickets are available on Thursday nights for those same performances in person at the box office only, available to all.
Online streaming is not available for Blithe Spirit.
If you want to see the show free of cost and earn community service hours, consider signing up to volunteer for a performance: https://signup.com/go/rJuUykw
About the show:
A smash comedy hit in London and New York, this much-revived classic from the playwright of Private Lives concerns fussy, cantankerous novelist Charles Condomine, who has remarried but finds himself haunted (literally) by the ghost of his late first wife, Elvira. Clever, insistent and well aware of Charles’ shortcomings, Elvira is called up by a visiting “happy medium,” the eccentric and flighty Madame Arcati. As everyone’s personalities clash, Charles’ current wife, Ruth, is accidentally killed. She “passes over” and joins Elvira, allowing the two “blithe spirits” to haunt the hapless Charles into perpetuity. (Concord Theatricals).
This play runs about 2.5 hours long, including one 15-minute intermission.
Blithe Spirit contains some strong language.
To see the cast list and learn more, visit https://albanycivic.org/shows/blithe-spirit/