Live Theatrical Events to get you in the Halloween Spirit

Los Angeles has a wonderfully wide collection of entertainment during October to set up the spirit of Halloween.  The fun part here is you don't have to wait for Halloween night.  You can scare yourself throughout October. Going to the theater to see a spooky play or musical is a great event. 

From ballet to rock musicals; from classical plays to kids events; from satire to symphony; from horror to sci-fi; from light fluff to deep psychological twist. We have theatrical listings for all tastes and budgets for this Halloween season.

Live Halloween Theater Presentations

Looking for that human haunting touch?  Reach for the haunted theatre... Everything from high end classy theater to blood and guts comedy romps.

Drama After Dark: A Night of the Macabre with Poe and Gorey - The Huntington Library

  Thrill to the tales of Edgar Allan Poe and Edward Gorey in an evening of chilling drama presented by the actors of the Guild of St. George. During the course of the evening, audience members will be able to see up to six out of the ten or more performances that are played simultaneously at various performance sites throughout the upper levels of the grounds.  Goosebumps guaranteed!  With the Guild of St George

Frankenstein in Love

In a Central American country, guerilla forces have just overthrown the dictatorial government. and discover a secret underground laboratory where a European expatriate named Frankenstein has been indulging in inhuman experiments on very human victims. Once liberated, these man-made freaks want to take advantage of the civil chaos to exact their revenge on their tormentors. It is a funny and sometimes unsettling spin on the classic horror tale.

Night of the Living Dolls - Orange County Underground Burlesque Society

Come sink your teeth into a live performance featuring the sexiest, sassiest ghosts and ghoulies.  Mix of comedy, burlesque, costumes and gals presented by the Orange County Underground Burlesque Society 

Night Stories: A 1940's Halloween Radio Play -

 ???  Night Stories is a series of radio plays set in the 1940’s before television when people tuned their radios to hear the weekly serials.  The Halloween episode is a collection of creepy eerie stories and is fun for the whole family.   

Also catch their haunted house Halloween week.

Nevermore... an evening with Edgar Allan Poe

Prose, poetry and prevision.  Set in 1848, Nevermore is loosely based on real events and follows Poe on a cross-country speaking tour fraught with strange occurrences that signal Poe's descent into madness.  Now extended though October.

Captured Aural Phantasy Theater - Tales of Terror

 A LIVE retro-influenced variety show built around radio show-style readings of real mid-century comic book stories. Revel to vintage tales of horror such as 1954’s The Mad Hate of Dr. Zart and 1953’s I Married a Zombie!, performed live in a show that includes sultry singing, stunning visual art, short acts, prizes, and live music from our house band! It’s entertainment mayhem with a capital E!

Imagine a vintage radio program mixed with the live entertainment of a Vaudeville show. Conjuring the Golden and Silver Ages of comics, tales teeming with romance, horror, and science-fiction are performed in the style of a live radio drama. The readings are accompanied by musical and visual interludes in a multi-media cabaret style performance.

Sally Spectre The Musical

A Children’s Horror Story for Adults .  An irreverent but charming musical about the gruesome ghost of a little girl who sings and dances her way through a nightmare-laced purgatory with a little guidance from an unlikely and unexpected host of sources.

Goddess A Go Go's Night of the Living Dance

Goddess A Go Go's Night Of The Living Dance is an eclectic night of Halloween themed, theatrical, comedic and diverse dance styles performed by an all female ensemble.

The Changeling

Presented as a Gothic Victorian nightmare, The Changeling summons a world where high poetry neatly coexists with coarse humor, and the darkest human fantasies come true.  The beguiling Beatrice-Joanna is betrothed to a man she no longer desires and falls in love with a dashing stranger, a man long obsessed with her. Together, they plot to free her from her engagement, through horrifying means.

Ghosts, mysterious potions, dancing lunatics, and various human remains all make an appearance in this most decadent of tragedy of the English Renaissance written by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, Shakespeare's  illustrious contemporaries.  Join Independent Shakespeare Co. as it re-imagines this classic.

Wicked Lit - A Halloween Theater Festival

The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Pigeons from Hell by Robert E. Howard

The Wicked Literature Play Reading Series will present staged readings of classic Halloween literature adapted for the stage by contemporary playwrights.  Audiences will literally walk the grounds of the Greystone Mansion as the plays take place around them.

Please note: This is a moving show. Wear comfortable soft soled shoes. You will be climbing stairs...  and be able to stand for the duration of each play .  Performances last approximately 90 minutes and are approved for youth ages 13+.   

If you can't make it to the Greystone Mansion, check out their more informal readings/performances throughout the Los Angeles area.

Halloween Concert & Masked Ball

String Theory performs an original free form score to the silent film classic "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari".    A series of  string resonators are designed to enhance the positive aspects of the inherent long-string tonality.  They deliver a stunning and singular sculptural visual profile.  Roam the
gallery while String Theory dancers perform to the eerie music.

The WCT Halloween Extravaganza!

A night to dismember!  Join Mission IMPROVable at the Westside Comedy Theater for a complete night of entertainment, including a Halloween-themed Improv show, Scaretastic Stand Up, and costume party shenanigans.

There'll be Trophies awarded for costumes in different categories! Free raffle ticket is included with entry! Drinks are included, and so is the candy!

This is Your Life: Dracula

& other comedy sketches

  Comedy and improv with spooky twists. Different shows on different nights.  See their calendar for exact programs

This is Your Life: Dracula

True Ghost Stories with Robert Ben Garant & Friends

The Apple Sisters: Ghouls' Night Out

Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451

  A paternalistic government suspends basic individual liberties in the name of preserving the security of the homeland. That could never happen here. Could it?  Firemen in a world of the near future don’t put out fires. They start them. They burn books.

A rebellious few will read books regardless of the consequences. One of the rebels is a fireman himself.  Can rebel fireman Montag and his friends save our cultural heritage from being crushed?

Annual Horror Theater Favorites

Little Shop of Horrors - Live

 Toe-tapping plants.  Romance amid skid-row.  Dastardly dentists. Blood drops and band-aids.  A white picket fence dream. The end of the world.  "Feed me, Seymour!" echoes though the theatre with a lot of laughter for this perennial holiday favorite that was one of the longest running off-Broadway productions ever.. 

(Full list across the country is <here>)

Civic Theatre - Buena Park

Knightbridge Theatre - Los Angeles

Fontana Community Players

Rocky Horror Show - the Live Stage Musical

If you're looking for the movie screenings, go <here>

Don't settle for seeing Dr. Frank N Furter on the big screen.  See the story of two clean cut kids, Brad Majors and Janet Weiss, who run into car trouble and seek help in a very strange mansion.  Come do the Time Warp with the with the whole sexy crew in this rock musical that spoofs science fiction movies and challenges you to just let go and enjoy.

List of shows in the Southern California area.  Please checkout their websites for more details. 

Night of the Living Dead - The Stage Show

  A mysterious form of radiation appears in outer space near Earth, just as gangs of rampaging, bloodthirsty, flesh-eating zombies are spotted around the country. Could the two circumstances possibly be related?

A brave and resourceful truck driver comes to the aid of a beautiful young woman who is being pursued by the murderous undead who have just killed and begun to devour her brother. They find an isolated house on a country road where, together with a few other desperate human souls, they are determined to make a stand against the wave of the carnivorous Living Dead that threatens to engulf them. It’s live humans vs. undead zombies. Who will prevail? The zombie classic that started it all!

Playwright Leon Shanglebee has “translated for the stage” a work based on ... the classic 1968 horror film by George A. Romero

Graphic Violence!

Costumes????  At the theater??? A lot of these performances are encouraging it, sometimes there are discounts.  Check their websites carefully, or ask.

Just watch out for those with the naturally sharp teeth.

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