When Shall We Three Meet: A Ghost Light’s Tale will be published November 10, 2026! YA Historical Fiction, set in the haunted Bowery Theatre in New York City during the tumultuous year of 1849.
Combing Through Research.
The more I delved into the real-life characters, the city’s impoverished Lower East Side, and the elite mansions uptown, the more captivated I became. The themes explored in my story are relevant to today’s social and political climate: xenophobia, income inequality, police brutality, women’s rights, and disease.
The Bowery Theatre, located near Chatham Square, had a broad range of entertainment, like “Blood and Thunder” melodramas full of spectacle and theatrical violence, Mose the Fireman—a folk hero character beloved by the working class, and of course, a little Shakespeare thrown in, all of which piqued my interest. (More to come in future posts!) All this, combined with the fanciful allure of ghost stories, tickles a forever “theatre kid” like me.
COMBING THROUGH RESEARCH.
Photo Credit: New York Public Library
ALMACK’S DANCE HALL AND THE BIRTHPLACE OF TAP DANCE
The Five Points
The Upper Ten Thousand
Lagrange Terrace
The Merchant House Museum
The Ghost Light and Theatre Ghosts
Across the world most theatre’s have a ghost light - a single bulb mounted on a pole incased in a wire cage that burns when a theatre is empty.
