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Ghost Light Access Recommends: Seeing New York Harbor by Wheelchair with Circle Line on a Broadway-Focused Trip
Many Disabled tourists who visit New York City wonder what other restaurants, attractions, and events will welcome them and reliably fill their itinerary. Ghost Light Access is happy to recommend Circle Line Sightseeing Cruises – Midtown, with an important qualification: wheelchair accessibility varies by departure point, vessel, seating area, and mobility equipment, so passengers should…
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New York’s Traveling with Dignity Act Could Make a Broadway Trip Possible for More Disabled Visitors
For many people planning a trip to New York City, seeing a Broadway show is almost automatic. Buy a ticket, have dinner, go to the theatre, perhaps visit a museum or another attraction the next day. For some Disabled people and their families, the itinerary can collapse over something considerably less glamorous: there is nowhere…
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How an NYPD Officer Helped Me Become a More Confident Wheelchair User
By: Kelsey Mauine Brickl In late July 2023, when the photo above was taken, I had only been a full-time wheelchair user for a year, and I was still living in the suburbs of Chicago. I was on a solo trip to New York City in the folding travel electric chair my disabilities still permitted…
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The Professional Mission of Ghost Light Access
By Kelsey Maurine Brickl Ghost Light Access is professionally building a theory of the whole professional theatre industry and publicly explaining why resistance increases rather than decreases its determination. Ghost Light Access praises audits on Broadway and the West End. It praises the abandonment of all future plans to use Yondr by New York theatres,…
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Ghost Light Access asks: Could Ali Work Here?
By: Kelsey Maurine Brickl The wildly talented Tony Award winner Ali Stroker will join The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at New World Stages beginning September 7. Her casting arrives at an interesting moment for Ghost Light Access. I have spent the past several months professionally examining something Broadway rarely discusses plainly: what happens…
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Broadway’s Backstage Is Still Closed to Non-Ambulatory Wheelchair Users
By Kelsey Maurine Brickl A Broadway wardrobe professional recently used social media to publish an important, detailed account of the often thankless work that happens after the curtain comes down. In that account, the professional pointed out that wardrobe staff may know which guests are expected before the performer does. They establish where the performer…
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Productive Competence Is Not a Cure for Disability: Here Lies What Was Mortal of Meaningful Momentum Toward British Inclusion of the Disabled
By: Kelsey Maurine Brickl I use a wheelchair full-time, including a very expensive custom prescription power wheelchair and a custom manual wheelchair. I have severe neuromuscular disease and chronic neuromuscular respiratory impairment. I have a pacemaker, which was put in after I survived a very prolonged stoppage of my heart recorded by an implanted loop…