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Spartan News Room: Hard-hit performing arts groups struggle to reopen

by | Mar 13, 2021 | News: Grants

When a theater is empty, a single light bulb – known as a ghost light – is placed in the center of the stage to keep the theater from complete darkness.

Most theaters and other performing arts venues in Michigan have been empty for a year now.

One of them is the City Opera House, a 680-seat venue in downtown Traverse City.

“We’re lonely, we miss our patrons,” executive director Diana Baribeau said.

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