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Step into your worst nightmare at this fright farm in North Austin. Known for its high production values and immersive scare tactics, this is one up from watching horror movies all month. New this year are outdoor horror screenings for those who enjoy their spine tingling in fear.

Join Albert Lucio, Jake Cordero, and the lovely luminaries of Minx + Muse for cocktails and a shared exploration of the mysteries that may await us just beyond the veil. Each session will include a brief lecture on the history of American spiritualism and its leading practitioners, a guided meditation, and, of course, a séance sitting. Bonus: Those cocktails are included in the price of admission.

View demonstrations by local ceramic artists throughout the day and participate in interactive clay projects. Take a tour of the Dougherty’s clay studio and find out what community clay is all about.

This local festival, created to help raise awareness of military veterans' suicide and the power of healing through art therapy, is run by a team of veterans and includes art exhibitions, musical performances, theatre productions, comedy shows, a writer’s conference, a health and wellness conference, and more, in a variety of venues. The opening day celebration features performances by Moana Tela, Valor Alan, Zach Person, veteran members of the Armstrong Community Music School, and Poland's Rebel Babel Ensemble. See website for more.

Twopiece audio assault by twin brothers, Brooklyn’s Venus Twins embody a Lightning Bolt-esque approach to noise rock. Matt Derting riffs on bass while Jake beats the skins with technical precision. Richmond-by-way-of-Philly trio Don Babylon plies 2018 slop-rock opus Foul, and Big Bill and Nick Adamo bookend the lineup with local support.

All ages welcome to come learn how to ride a bike with experienced and certified teachers. Balance bikes and helmets will be provided; pre-register by email.

Lates: Featuring trans punk singer Jayne County in her only starring movie role, City of Lost Souls revolves around a group of outsider performers who have moved to Berlin in search of social acceptance and artistic freedom.

It’s a babelicious night of queer music with v special guests – all the way from the boroughs of New York City – Sateen, a queer nu-disco duo that’ll make you sweat glitter. Warm up with haunting goth drag tunes from Vestite and hawt disco beats from Lauren Sanders’ No Nostalgia. Wrap it all up it in the prettiest bow you can find, cuz glam duo p1nkstar and Y2K are serving DJ sets in between and allll night long.

Penfold Theatre brings a bounty of ghostly elegance to your Halloweening season, as Liz Fisher directs Dave Malloy's happily haunted musical about love, death, and whisky. Listen in as four friends drink and spin yarns about two fairy-tale sisters, a tree house astronomer and a lazy evil bear, a subway tragedy, and the ghost of Thelonious Monk, the disparate narrative threads interweaving into a centuries-long tale of encounters with the otherworldly. (Note: The final two performances will be at the Driskill Hotel, with pre-show entertainment beginning at 7:30pm. Oct. 31: Ghost stories told by paranormal expert Nathan Jerkins. Nov. 1: Round Rock Ballet Folklórico share traditional Día de los Muertos dances and discuss the importance of the holiday.) Also? Our reviewer? Was rather blown away.

This new play by debbie tucker green is the inaugural production for Horizon Line Theatre. Directed by Chuck Ney, it's a provocative and darkly humorous show that focuses on the aftermath of one woman’s violent attack and how it has destroyed her life and her family, and it stars Nadine Mozon, Barbara Chisholm, and (yes, Chronicle Arts Editor) Robert Faires.

Broadway In Austin brings us the 50th anniversary tour of this award-winning Andrew-Lloyd-Weber-and-Tim-Rice phenomenon that highlights the extraordinary events in the final weeks of the life of a certain mythic Nazarene. Note: Originally staged by London’s Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, this production won the 2017 Olivier Award for Best Musical Revival.

Celebrate the show’s opening with refreshments, bevvies, and words from the artist herself as she celebrates the queers who’ve shaped her life.

The 15th annual Staple! Independent Media Expo features more than 200 artists and creators, with vendors showcasing independently made comics, zines, art, crafts, and games – from locals and folks from all over the country. Amid the decked-out tables and booths, there's two full days of indie creativity and geekish delights, including a live art show benefit, educational panels, and family-friendly activities. Oh, look – here's a profile of Staple! founder Chris Nicholas!

The world’s finest mesquite wood artisans head to Fredericksburg to showcase their handcrafted mesquite products. Items range from large furniture items such as beds, dressers and chairs made entirely from mesquite, to unique craft and gift items such as beautifully turned lamps, delicate scroll work and lots more.

The campus of Southwestern University is where the legendary literary action happens in 2019, with this annual celebration of Young Adult books, authors, and readers of all ages, the whole day of readings and signings and fun supercharged by keynote speakers Akilah Hughes and Erika L. Sánchez.

Don't mistake this for comedy, exactly. The Black Vault is a fully improvised show that spins horror tales in the style of H.P. Lovecraft, the writer best known for his "Cthulhu Mythos." The show explores many of Lovecraft’s themes – ancient unspeakable terror, impossible twisted dreamscapes, unseen forces from beyond the stars that infect our minds, and the real horrors that humanity inflicts upon itself – but, note: This new production tells tales of creeping alien horrors via the experiences of those not typically represented in Lovecraft’s work. In other words: Boo-yah, Howard Phillips, you old dead racist! Ia! Ia!

Beth Burns and her Hidden Room cohort – Ryan Crowder, Liz Beckham, Brock England, Judd Farris, Valoneecia Tolbert, Robert Matney, and other fierce talents – return with John Webster’s true-crime masterpiece of power, corruption, fate, and forbidden love, doing this classic revenge tragedy up right with period playing practices, live music, 1614-style garments, and proper makeup techniques. Note: After its Austin run, Hidden Room will take the show to Shakespeare’s Globe Wanamaker Playhouse in London. And here's our full review of the show!

Join with the Vortex family and friends – those relentless makers of theatre, ritual, and spectacle – at this annual celebration of their most recent season's productions, with Fire Awards to honor artists and technicians for their achievements … and Brimstone Awards to roast notable gaffes about which they can (finally) laugh.

In this all-indigenous production – written by Maria Rocha: and Roxanne Schroeder-Arce and directed by Rudy Ramirez for Teatro Vivo – 13-year-old María is sent to stay with her Coahuiltecan grandmother in distant Laredo for discipline and perspective. There, María is told an ancient story of young Yana Wana, who followed a revered deer to find water to save her people.