Whoever said Shakespeare was boring...well, maybe they were right — sometimes. But not if you're talking about James Ijames adaptation of Hamlet into Fat Ham, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and just closed its run at the Geffen Playhouse in Westwood.

In this episode of Set The Ghost LIght, host Jeremy Thompson drags his wheezing bones to see Head Over Heels — a jukebox musical featuring the songs of 80s band The Go-Gos — and tries to survive being a song and dance man with pneumonia in The SpongeBob Musical at California State University Northridge. Stick around for the end of the show to hear directly from CSUN's SpongeBob cast members.

The curtain is down. The theatre is empty. The ghost light is set.

Coming soon from Jeremy D. Thompson, a recovering political operative who's now focusing on the performing arts is Set The Ghost Light, a podcast that looks at theatre in Los Angeles. We'll be seeing and talking about shows, and working on some ourselves. It's part review, part how-to, and part artists' journal.

Join us for this journey. Because when the show is over, the conversation can begin.

In this inaugural episode of Set The Ghost Light, host Jeremy D. Thompson discusses A Noise Within's recent run of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler and Mandy Patinkin's performance and master class at the Santa Clarita Performing Arts Center at College of the Canyons in Valencia, California.

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