Why do theaters leave a light on the stage

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Let's get the lights back on! Find Chloe's playlist here. A few of us have claimed to see what we think is a ghost in the Joan Sutherland Theatre. What I think I saw was an older gentleman hanging around the back of the theatre. He was quite benevolent, just watching what we were doing.

When did you put up the lights? Traditionally the ghost light is an incandescent light globe on a stick at the front of the stage. What does putting up the lights mean to you? It seemed like a really natural time to bring this tradition back. We decided that the entire House needed something to look forward to. A beacon, if you like. Bringing our stages to your sofa, our new digital program comes to you weekly from our House to yours.

See the program. Today, both the light and sets sit there as a kind of still-life tribute to theater as it once was. Hope is especially needed now. For months, as COVID vaccines have come available, a lot of groups have operated on the assumption that live theater would be reunited with non-virtual audiences this fall. Now, with vaccine distribution less than smooth and virus variants appearing, it is less clear when a live audience might once again be possible.

You might think in the age of tech that this vestige of old-school theater would be an endangered species — a Princess Telephone in a world of iThis and iThat.

A standard lightbulb that plugs into a regular outlet allows it to take over from more expensive theater lighting that would otherwise be used. Skip to content Share Icon. Facebook Logo.