'THELMA BEE' Children's Author Erin Petti to Return to ImprovBoston

Fans of The Goonies, Goosebumps, and Coraline can now escape with The Peculiar Haunting of Thelma Bee. Its author Erin Petti will join the ImprovBoston Mainstage cast on December 8th for fast-paced games and hilarious scenes.

In her quirky and fantastical adventure-mystery, Petti intertwines science and magic. Eleven-year-old Thelma Bee has as much imagination as curiosity and sense of adventure. After a strange woman sells a jewelry box at her father's antique shop, a ghost kidnaps her father. "It's up to Thelma to get her dad back, and it might be harder than she thought - there's someone wielding dark magic, and Thelma is pretty sure they're coming after her next," says ErinPetti.com.

Petti is no stranger to the ImprovBoston stage. As an ImprovBoston alum, Petti used her skills in improvisation to develop story and imaginative scenes in her debut book. She now returns to the ImprovBoston stage to join their elite Mainstage cast for an engaging informative, and totally improvised comedy show.

ImprovBoston's Mainstage cast hosts Boston-area VIPs in its "Mainstage Spotlight Series" every Thursday. In this series, ImprovBoston's elite comedic improvisers highlight the impactful work of a diverse array of Greater Boston industry leaders: artists, news anchors, authors, tech innovators, professors, and other high profile personalities. Through intimate interviews, off-the-cuff storytelling, impromptu scenes, songs, witty banter, and inspired re-imaginings, ImprovBoston's most experienced cast shines the comedy spotlight on some of the most compelling movers and shakers in Boston.

Other upcoming guests include:

Kevin Quigley (Author, Storyteller, Producer), December 15th at 7:30PM

AaRon Wilson (Actor, Singer-Songwriter, Author), December 22nd at 7:30PM

All Spotlight Series tickets are $18 and available online at ImprovBoston.com.

For over 30 years, ImprovBoston has been New England's leading theater and school dedicated to the art of comedy in all its forms. Voted "Best of Boston" by The Phoenix, The Improper Bostonian, and The Weekly Dig, ImprovBoston performers, teachers and students have included film stars, Emmy Award-winning comedians, and acclaimed producers, directors, musicians and writers. ImprovBoston alumni are featured on Conan, Late Night with Stephen Colbert, The Daily Show, America's Got Talent, Funniest Wins, Playboy, Last Comic Standing and John Oliver's Last Week Tonight, to name a few. In 2014, the Independent Reviewers of New England honored ImprovBoston with an award recognizing its longstanding contributions to the Boston theater community. As a nonprofit arts organization, ImprovBoston serves the community through laughter with youth outreach programs, workshops for businesses, scholarships, a national touring company and, of course, performances at its theater complex in Central Square, Cambridge.