There are two ways you can approach your costume this year: 1) Go to a big box store or online behemoth and buy some plastic junk that’ll make you break out in hives before it arrives at its final destination in a landfill. 2) Give new life to costumes that once tread the boards at Austin Shakespeare, the Archive Theater, Salvage Vanguard Theater, Zilker Theatre Productions, and Concordia University’s Theatre Studies, and in the process kick some cash to nonprofit ATX Theatre, which connects Austin’s theatregoers with the great work happening on local stages. No contest, right? Note: There are mirrors but no dressing rooms on site, so wear an underlayer, people. – Kimberley Jones
Oct. 19-20