Set designer August Henney puts new spin on Mary Shelley’s life

‘So Late Into the Night’ Through Nov. 2 Rorschach Theatre The Stacks @ Buzzard Point 101 V St., S.W. Spooky Action Theater Washington, D.C. Tickets start at $74 Rorshachtheatre.com

We’ve all been to that scary party or two. But ordinarily, it’s not by choice.

But with playwright Shawn Northrip’s So Late Into the Night, the spookiness is planned, executed, and fun. Northrip lays out the story of novelist Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, famed author of the gothic masterpiece Frankenstein, and in gathering her Romantic poet friends and lovers, investigates their afterlife.

What’s more, the new play, which also features a rock séance, is performed in the Stacks at D.C.’s Buzzard Point neighborhood, a unique neighborhood positioned where the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers meet, just south of Audi