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Something for Nothing Theater stages Shakespeare's comedy classic under starlight in Ramsey Park, with directors Allison Dillon and Rosalind Faires presenting a version in which Benedick and Beatrice are both played as women. Prithee bring a blanket or chair, pack a picnic, and invite some friends along to this out-of-doors romance.

Put on your plaid and spend a weekend surrounded by the music, dance, history, and food of Ireland and Scotland. The whole shebang is highlighted by the Highland Games where large, unwieldy objects are thrown.

The 15th annual festival offers a selection of international films, many of which will screen with the directors in attendance. For a complete schedule and film descriptions, see www.austinjff.org.

In addition to the feature films, short narratives, documentaries, and animations, the festival hosts a poster exhibit, guest filmmakers, and Polish food treats. The festival screens at AFS Cinema, with special screenings at the Arbor, Mon. Nov. 6. For the complete schedule visit www.austinpolishfilm.com.

Boogie Nights gets under the skin of the porn film industry in the late Seventies. However, the film is no sociocultural abstract; it is at heart a well-told story about a group of characters and the de facto family that emerges from their relationships.

It's never too early to transform this historic Victorian home in an X-mas extravaganza filled with ornaments, décor, jewelry, clothing, gourmet food items, and other giftable items. Go online for a complete schedule of daily events.

Alyssa Taylor Wendt and Sean Gaulager have curated up a conceptual group show that addresses grief, loss, death, architecture, and urban development, wrangling more than 65 artists and performers from Texas, New York, Detroit, and Seattle. "The show is especially relevant as the building is slated for subsequent demolition to make room for a planned development on the site."

Doc Nights: Documentary explores the passengers on the country's busiest long-distance train route, the Empire Builder.

Live Score: In the realm of vampire films, this 1922 silent is the original mother lode. No one since has matched vampire Max Schreck's creepy loathsomeness. The Invincible Czars will accompany the film with their original score.

This is the movie in which James Dean essayed his quintessential role as a troubled American teen and, along with co-stars Wood and Mineo, established an iconography of adolescence that has retained its potency well into the next millennium.

Rude Mechs and groundswell theatre company present Lydia Blaisdell's retro-future audio adventure that invites theatre fans, audiophiles, and hikers to join the Rebellion and discover the fabled Archive of the Before Time in a feral, apocalyptic American wilderness. Directed by Katie Van Winkle, with performances by Martinique Duchene-Phillips, Katie Dahm, and Megan Tabaque, and featuring a panoply of local voice talents on cassette tape. It's "a hike, a collage, a satire, a desperate plea, and a memorial for the world’s transient and fierce beauty," says the director. And right here is what our reviewer says.

This here? Just one of the largest and most prestigious literary festivals in the country, that's all. With more than 250 nationally and critically recognized authors, venues (including the State Capitol) all over town, around 80 exhibitors hawking their bookish wares, live music, local food trucks, family activities, and countless opportunities to meet authors and fellow bibliophiles.

The Longhorns start their campaign with an exhibition vs. Oklahoma City University:

"A troubled young woman joins a group of do-gooders known as The Fellowship and discovers an unsavory secret that she’s unwilling (and unable) to leave behind" in this new drama written and directed by Justin M. West for Mercurial Theatre.

That excellent gallery in Canopy presents a group exhibit featuring work by Texas artists who are inspired by any of the natural sciences as a majority of their current artistic practice. Which, lucky for the viewer, means that the talents represented include Laurie Frick, Jules Buck Jones, Calder Kamin, Cathy Savage, David Martínez, and more. Quant suff! Recommended!

This mash-up of "Battlebots" and "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" features integrated teams of humans and robots competing in comedic challenges based on audience suggestions. It's a show of technological fun for the whole family! Bonus: Free cake and a coloring book.