Hollywood Gothique

Plays, musicals, and other live performance pieces in Los Angeles.

Tonight, Haunted Midnights at the Comedy Store has its final engagement for October 2012. Although the show has been running on Wednesdays in October, it will not be back on Halloween night next week, so if you are interested, get your tickets now.
Haunted Midnights is a variety show, mixing stand-up comedy with with first-hand accounts [...]

Date: October 14 at 3:30pm
Location: The Bob Baker Marionette Theatre, 1345 W. First Street, Los Angeles, CA 90026
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Description: In association with the Cinefamily’s month-long “Nightmare City” series of Halloween events, the Bob Baker Marionette Theatre presents this Haunted Hallabaloo, hosted by comedian Emo Phillips. The afternoon’s entertainment includes cartoons, short films, perfomances [...]

Location: Downtown Independent Theatre, , 251 South Main Street, Los Angeles, CA (213) 617-1033
Description: The Downtown Independent Theatre presents a new stage adaptation of Mary Shelly’s famous novel, scripted by Nick Dear.
From the website:
Oscar-winner Danny Boyle (127 Hours, Slumdog Millionaire) returned to the theatre to direct this visionary production with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee [...]

Dates & Hours: Wednesdays at 11pm on October 10, 17 & 24

Location: The Comedy Store, 8433 Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood, CA 90069

Description: Haunted Midnights at the Comedy Store returns for Halloween 2012. The venerable venue – which claims to be renowned as “one of the most haunted places in Hollywood” – promises a ghostly experience unlike any other available in Los Angeles.

Update: SMOKE AND MIRRORS – which ran from September through December at the The Promenade Playhouse in Santa Monica last year – will be moving to The Road Theatre at 5103 Lankershim Boulevard, North Hollywood. Previews begin January 18; the official run is form January 26 through March 16. Written and performed by magician Albie Selnick, the play is “re-imagined autobiography,” portraying Selnick as a boy who uses magic to face the world after the death of his father.

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?

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 [...]

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
Dates: December 11 at 7pm, December 12 at 2pm
Description: The San Pedro City Ballet performs Tchaikovsky’s Christmas classic.

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: 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, [...]