Hollywood Gothique

So, you’re Halloween high has ended, and you feel your morose soul descending into the abyss of withdrawal. The zombies have returned to their graves. The vampyres have fled to where the ghouls and Afrits rave. The restless spirits have shuttered up their haunted house. The cannibal crazies have disappeared into the maze of the backwoods. The delusions have disappeared, and the ghosts ships have all set sail. What is left? What is left?

Date: October 20
Location: Echoplex, 1154 Glendale Boulevard, Los Angeles, 90026
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Description: It’s almost Halloween, so The New L.A. Folk Festival, L.A. Record, & Grand Ole Echo are getting together to present “The Return Of Murder Ballads,” a follow-up to last year’s tribute to timeless songs about killers, scorned lovers, & evil doers. Performers [...]

Location: Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 South Grand Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90012
Date: October 30 at 7:30pm
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Description: From the website: “Organ virtuoso Clark Wilson will improvise an appropriately atmospheric sound track on Walt Disney Concert Hall’s magnificent pipe organ for this groundbreaking 1920 silent film, one of the earliest, most influential [...]

Among the music on the menu will be selections from Dario Argento's TENEBRAE
Location: Silent Movie Theatre, 611 N. Fairfax Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90036
Date: October 26 at 8pm
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Description: Hey there, horror movie soundtrack fans! The Cinefamily assures us they have a concert for you! NILBOG (that’s “Goblin” spelled backwards, for those of [...]

[ October 1, 2011; 10:00 am to 11:59 pm. ] Location: Pierce College, 20800 Victory Boulevard, Woodland Hills, CA
Date: October 1, 10am to midnight
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Description: This year, Ben Von Stawn presents his second annual Monster Party at the Halloween Harvest Festival and FrightFair Screampark. In addition to all the other Halloween hijinx provided at the fest, there will be live music, artists, and [...]

Location: Whitmore-Lindley Theatre Center, 11006 Magnolia Boulevard, North Hollywood, CA 91601
Dates: Fridays & Saturdays, February 11 to March 19
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Description: The Visceral Company presents the West Coast premiere of the play by Scotrt T. Barsotti. When a violent uprising of the undead forces two couples into hiding, infected spouses take a turn for [...]

[ February 13, 2011; 6:30 pm; ] Location: The Steve Allen Theatre, 4773 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles
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Description: The Clubfoot Orchestra provides scores for the silent films SHERLOCK JR and THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI. The former is a comedy starring Buster Keaton; the later is perhaps the great-granddaddy of the horror genre, a 1919 German Expressionist movie about a [...]

Location: The Warner Grand Theater, 478 West 6th Street, San Pedro, CA 90731
Dates: December 21-27; no show Dec 25.
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Description: The Relevant Stage returns with its “…annual holiday family tradition…”, based on Charles Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol. A first-rate cast, carolers singing old English carols and intriguing staging bring this ultimately uplifting [...]

Location: The Warner Grand Theater, 478 West 6th Street, San Pedro, CA 90731
Date: May 14, 2011 at 8pm
Description: An encore performance of Tale Old as Time, told in music and images.
Tickets: $15, $25, $35

Location: The Warner Grand Theater, 478 West 6th Street, San Pedro, CA 90731
Date: Saturday, Apr. 9, 2011, 8 p.m. – doors open at 7 p.m.
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Description: Experience the next wave of orchestra music with millennial imagery.
Tickets: $15, $25, $35

Location: The Warner Grand Theater, 478 West 6th Street, San Pedro, CA 90731
Dates: December 11 at 7pm, December 12 at 2pm
Description: The San Pedro City Ballet performs Tchaikovsky’s Christmas classic.

Location: Hollywood Forever Cemetery, 6000 Santa Monica Boulevard
Date: October 30, 2pm to midnight
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Description: The 11th annual Dia De Los Muertos Festival at Hollywood Forever, Los Angeles’s oldest memorial park, observes the mystical beauty and wonder of this ancient spiritual celebration. Partake of various sacred ceremonial tributes and memorable altar creations on the [...]

Planning your Halloween Weekend? Wondering What to do with these final days of October? Looking for something new and different? With the opening of the Theatre 68 Haunted House this past Friday, all of Los Angeles’s professional Halloween haunts are in full swing, leaving the Halloween yard haunts to dominate the concluding weekend of October, along with various horror movie screenings. Here is a rundown of Halloween events and attractions opening around Los Angeles this weekend.

Dates: October 21-31, 8pm
Location: Mountain View Mausoleum and Cemetery, 2300 Marengo Ave, Altadena, CA 91001
Description: Wicked Lit presents three short plays, based on classic literature and performed live inside an actual cemetery: THE CHIMES, THE UNAMABLE, THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO

Location: Million Dollar Theatre, 307 South Broadway, Los Angeles, 90013
Dates: October 22-23, 29-30 at 7pm
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Description: The Astra Dance Company invites you to join them for this October for the debut of this new piece, which promises “a vivid performance of dance and music, telling the story of two lovers trapped by an [...]

Location: Stories, 1716 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90026, (213) 413-3733
Date: October 23 at 7:30pm
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Description: The New Los Angeles Folk Fest is co-presenting the final night of the Trailer Fire Records October series at Stories as a pre-party for their Murder Ballads festival on October 26 at the Echoplex. This free Halloween [...]

Location: Echoplex, 1154 Glendale Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90026, (213) 413-8200
Date: October 26 at 8pm
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Description: The New Los Angeles Folk Festival, in association with The Echo, present this folk music festival focusing on ballads of murder and despair. Although these are not “Halloween” songs their dark themes are certainly appropriate for the [...]

Location: El Rey Theaer, 5515 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, 90036
Date: October 31, Halloween Night
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Description: The Astra Dance Company invites you to step back in time and experience the world of Edgar Allan Poe, returned to life. They will perform “Astra,” their waltz ballet in three acts, followed by a turn-of-the-century burlesque show, [...]

[ October 31, 2010; 6:30 pm; 6:30 pm; ] Location: Exposition Park, 700 Exposition Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90037
Date: October 31 – doors open at 5:30pm; band begins at 6:30pm; film screens at 8pm
Description: The Outdoor Cinema Food Fest presents the second of two evenings of Halloween fun, featuring Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 film version of Stephen King’s THE SHINING, preceded by live Music from Criminal Belly. There will be a costume contest, ghoulish treats from the food trucks, and giveaways that those who attend in costume will be automatically entered to win.

Location: Westchester Playhouse, 8301 Hindry Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90045
Final Performances: Friday & Saturday, October 15 & 16 at 8pm
Description: With Halloween just around the corner, why not pop over to the Westchester Playhouse for the final performances of the Kentwood Players production of Dracula, the classic vampire play dramatized by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston? The play is billed as “fun for the whole family, suitable for ages 10 and up.” The production’s official description reads thus: “Dracula is a chilling and spooky tale about a bizarre illness fallen upon Lucy Seward, daughter to Dr. Seward, owner of an English Sanatorium in the early 1900s. Dr. Seward and Lucy’s fiancé, Jonathan Harker, call in the help of Professor Van Helsing, an expert in the macabre. Their search for answers leads them deeper and deeper into the terrors of the unknown and the unthinkable. Could a vampire be the answer to this chilling mystery?”

Ticets are $18. There is a $2-discount for students, seniors, and servicemen.

Location: The Comedy Store, 8433 Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood, CA 90069
Dates: October 8, 15, 22, 29 at midnight
Last night, the Comedy Store offered up the debut of a new attraction for Halloween 2010: Haunted Midnights, a combination of video, live performance, and a nocturnal tour of the premises. This is not a standard Halloween attraction, with a maze and monsters. The pitch is that the Comedy Store is one of the most authentically haunted locations in Los Angeles, at least in part due to its association, decades ago, with some high-profile organized crime figures, who may have rubbed out the occasional victim on the premises; the evening promises seances, paranormal research, haunted tales, and proof. Skeptics will not be surprised to learn that you do not receive the last item, nor is there a seance. Nevertheless, Haunted Midnights turns out to be a fun and fascinating piece of late-night entertainment that (if all goes well) promises to become a traditional Halloween event for years to come.

[ October 30, 2010; 8:00 pm; ] Title: Halloween Fright Night 8 – Golden State Pops Orchestra
Location: Warner Grand Theater, 478 West 6th Street, San Pedro, CA 90731
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Description: ounder, Artistic Director and Conductor Steven Allen Fox and the musicians of Golden State Pops Orchestra celebrate the beginning of their 6th season at the Warner Grand with their eagerly anticipated [...]

[ September 30, 2010; 7:15 pm; ] Location: Gibson Amphitheatre at Universal City Walk, Universal City, CA. Rob Zombie and Alice Cooper reunite for the Gruesome Twossome Halloween Hootenanny Tour. The stop at the Gibson Amphitheatre at Universal City includes a special offer: a combo ticket for the concert and for a trip to Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood – for $59.