Blithe Spirit

Theatre Baton Rouge's latest production is the classic Noel Coward comedy Blithe Spirit. This lively story features Charles Condomine, a successful novelist who arranges for an eccentric medium, Madame Arcati, to hold a séance at his house as research for his next novel. At the séance, she inadvertently summons Charles's first wife, Elvira, who has been dead for seven years. The ghostly Elvira makes continued, and increasingly desperate, efforts to disrupt Charles's current marriage. Showings April 23–25, and April 29–May 2. 7:30 pm. $30.75; $25.75 for students; $25.75 for children younger than eighteen. theatrebr.org.