Ghostlight at Rogue Machine Theatre

Ghostlight, with book by Chandler Patton and music and lyrics by Steven James Schmidt, is a new musical premiering as part of the 2026 SheLA Summer Theater Festival at Rogue Machine Theatre in West Hollywood. After bombing her audition for a revival of a show about 19th-century Pre-Raphaelite poet-painters Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddal, Leah and her best friend Jen are ready to give up on their dreams — until two cast members fall ill and they get the chance to step in. As they rehearse alongside the original cast, the line between reality and theatricality begins to blur, forcing them to confront truths about their characters, themselves, and the pasts that haunt them. SheLA, the Los Angeles branch of SheNYC Arts, presents this production as part of its annual festival highlighting works by West Coast women, trans, and non-binary writers.