September 26 - October 5, 2025
By Lauren Wilson
Directed by Marybeth Gorman Craig & Lauren Wilson

Longstreet Theatre

This new play by USC Theatre Assistant Professor Lauren Wilson is a ghost story inspired by the “haunted” reputation of our most notable performance venue. In the face of budget cuts and theatre closures, directing student Sam and their cast sneak into Longstreet Theatre, a building once used as a Civil War hospital and morgue that is now closed for safety reasons, to stage a renegade production of Hamlet. Undaunted by the theater’s flickering lights and creeping mold, director and cast throw themselves into the project – that is, until spirits of the building’s past begin to stir. By turns funny, frightening, and poignant, The Seeing Place is an homage to the theatre and its artists, who carry compassion forward like a flickering spark through a world of danger and sorrow.