FORT WORTH, Texas — Tarrant County College is haunted. At least TCC South’s theater is.
GHOSTlight Gallery ’26, written by technical director Scott Wild, seeks to keep the theater ghosts happy by leaving a light on for them. Performances run Oct. 29-31 at 7:30 p.m. in the Joe B. Rushing Center for the Performing Arts, 5301 Campus Drive, Fort Worth. Admission is free.
A ghost light is a single electric bulb left burning onstage in an otherwise dark, empty theater. Theater superstition holds that the light keeps the ghosts calm so they won’t ruin productions.
The ghastly revue follows a group of college students who decide to create their own Halloween show in the empty theater. Will the ghosts stay happy?
Director Lindy Benton-Muller describes the production as a collaboration.
“We used the workshop process that I learned when I taught at Texas Wesleyan University,” she said. “The students brought in material and talked about the parts of Halloween they enjoyed and those they didn’t.”
While Benton-Muller guided the students’ work, Wild listened and then wrote the play. The students developed material and characters for the original production and also make up the cast.
Cast members include Piper Cennamo, Hannah Falguera, Toby Hollowell, Sarina Kissell, Owen Maddox and Gary, a plastic skeleton.
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