Oct. 8-10
The Manship Theatre will screen Ghostbusters for its dinner-and-a-movie feature Oct. 8, followed by two showings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show Oct. 9-10. manshiptheatre.org
Oct. 23
Verdi’s opera Macbeth provides the inspiration for Opéra Louisiane’s spooky fundraising event at Baton Rouge City Club with guest soprano Cassandra Black. Costumes are encouraged. Tickets are $150 per person or $275 per couple. operalouisiane.com
Oct. 25
The LSU Rural Life Museum hosts its annual country fair-style festival, with cake walks, pumpkin decorating, games, trick-or-treating and more family fun on the museum grounds. discoverburden.com
Oct. 29-31
For its fall fundraiser, Theatre Baton Rouge is hosting performances of the outlandish cult classic. The celebration will include a before- and an after-party; $20 for the show and $35 for the show and party. theatrebr.org
Oct. 31
Usually held at the beginning of October, Of Moving Colors’ street party and 5K is on Halloween day this year, for the first time collaborating with the Baton Rouge Halloween Parade for a full day of scares downtown.
Besides the 5K, the Creepy Crawler one-mile fun run caters to the younger folks. Both races begin and end at North Boulevard Town Square. The zombie makeup tent will provide ghoulish face painting by Mercer Studio.
A post-race party will feature music, food, drinks and the annual mass street dance to Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” all wrapping up in time for the afternoon parade. Performers with the contemporary dance-theater organization will provide free dance classes in the weeks leading up to the event. ofmovingcolors.org
Oct. 31
The 10/31 Consortium hosts its big annual Halloween parade downtown starting at 2 p.m. It’s a family-friendly event and revelers are encouraged to dress in costume.
The route begins at St. Phillip and Government streets by the River Center and winds through downtown before ending at Laurel Street and River Road. 1031consortium.com
All month
On Thursday through Saturday nights this month, plus the full week before Halloween, 13th Gate will be open to scare the daylights out of you. The indoor attraction also has an outdoor component, Necropolis 13, and the brand-new immersive experience 13th Gate Escape. The folks behind 13th Gate put a ton of work into it each year, and the long line of visitors all month keeps it consistently ranked among the best haunted attractions in the country. Come for the scares but stay—well, as long as you can handle it—for the creepy, movie-worthy sets. midnightproduction.com
