The play concerns the socialite and novelist Charles Condomine, who invites the eccentric medium and clairvoyant Madame Arcati to his house to conduct a séance, hoping to gather material for his next book. The scheme backfires when he is haunted by the ghost of his wilful and temperamental first wife, Elvira, after the séance. Elvira makes continual attempts to disrupt Charles’s marriage to his second wife, Ruth, who cannot see or hear the ghost.

Get your tickets now for “Blithe Spirit” at the Roxy Friday & Saturday, Sept. 6 & 7, starring (front, from left) Lauren Syverson, Hannah Thomas, Louie Pilati, and Loni Porter, and (back) Brandon Dulaney, Rachel Galarneau, and Mandi McNeeley.