Vancouver Elks 823 presents the fourth annual Nightmares on Elk Street Haunted House at 11605 S.E. McGillivray Blvd., Vancouver, open every Friday, Saturday and Sunday in October. This is an extremely scary indoor haunted house with disturbing depictions of blood and gore, including visual and auditory frights, strobe lights and fog machines. It is not […]
"Little Shop of Horrors" will play at Portland's Winningstad Theatre, inside Antoinette Hatfield Hall at 1111 S.W. Broadway, from Oct. 7 through 30. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays and at 2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Tickets range from $27.25 to $52.25, available at www.stumptownstages.org or www.Portland5.com or by calling the box […]
Love Street Playhouse, 126 Loves Ave., Woodland, presents "Miss Holmes" from Oct. 7 through 23. This theatrical fan fiction re-examines the Victorian world of Holmes and Watson by exploring the added obstacles faced by these two iconic characters if they were women. When an anonymous note sends a newlywed wife looking for help, Miss Sherlock […]
Portland Center Stage and Artists Repertory Theatre present "the ripple, the wave that carried me home" by playwright and recent Tony Award-nominee Christina Anderson. "the ripple, the wave that carried me home" opens on Oct. 14 and runs through Oct.30 on the main stage at 128 N.W. 11th Ave., Portland, with preview shows Oct. 8-13. […]
NW Dance Project presents "Bolero+" at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 14 and 15 at the Newmark Theatre, 1111 S.W. Broadway, Portland. Tickets range from $29 to $68. Purchase tickets at nwdanceproject.org/performances. The production features the premiere of "Down the Garden Path" choreographed by Sarah Slipper, "Ensemble for Somnambulists" by Luca Veggetti and "Bolero" by Ihsan Rustem. […]
The Oregon Ballet Theatre presents "Midsummer Night's Dream," playing Oct. 8 through 16 at Portland's Keller Auditorium. Magic and merriment abound in our joyful fall program. As the curtain rises, the audience meets a family of circus performers in the Oregon Ballet Theatre premiere of Christopher Bruce’s "Hush." The show continues with George Balanchine’s "Tchaikovsky […]
Magenta Theater presents "Murder on the Orient Express," Oct. 14 through 30 at 1108 Main St., Vancouver. Eleven performances are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Oct. 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 28, and 29 and at 2 p.m. Oct. 16, 23, and 30. A special performance featuring the understudy actors will take place at 7:30 p.m. […]
Pumpkin Lane at Pomeroy Farm, 20902 N.E. Lucia Falls Rd., Yacolt, will be open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. every Saturday and Sunday in October; admission ends at 4 p.m. Take a hayride down Pumpkin Lane, pick out the perfect pumpkin (priced by circumference from $1.50 to $12 for standard pumpkins; specialty pumpkins are […]
The Pittock Mansion, 3229 N.W. Pittock Dr., Portland, is offering Behind the Scenes tours, where small groups of people are led by a guide through the parts of the mansion that are not accessible to most visitors. The tour includes basement passages, the boiler room, the Otis elevator machine room, third floor servants’ quarters and […]
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra invites audiences to hear nine young musicians who will compete in the final round of the National Young Artist Competition at 1 p.m. Oct. 16 at First Presbyterian Church, 4300 Main St., Vancouver. Open to young artists up to age 18, the Young Artist Competition awards $24,000 in cash prizes and […]
Single Seniors will meet for lunch together at Stardust Diner, 1110 S.E. 164th Ave. at 1 p.m. on Oct. 16. For more information call 360-892-8944.
Love Street Playhouse, 126 Loves Ave., Woodland, presents "Miss Holmes" from Oct. 7 through 23. This theatrical fan fiction re-examines the Victorian world of Holmes and Watson by exploring the added obstacles faced by these two iconic characters if they were women. When an anonymous note sends a newlywed wife looking for help, Miss Sherlock […]
The Oregon Ballet Theatre presents "Midsummer Night's Dream," playing Oct. 8 through 16 at Portland's Keller Auditorium. Magic and merriment abound in our joyful fall program. As the curtain rises, the audience meets a family of circus performers in the Oregon Ballet Theatre premiere of Christopher Bruce’s "Hush." The show continues with George Balanchine’s "Tchaikovsky […]
Magenta Theater presents "Murder on the Orient Express," Oct. 14 through 30 at 1108 Main St., Vancouver. Eleven performances are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Oct. 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 28, and 29 and at 2 p.m. Oct. 16, 23, and 30. A special performance featuring the understudy actors will take place at 7:30 p.m. […]
The Southwest Washington Wind Symphony welcomes back its audience with a concert titled "Magical Moments," conducted by Mark Lane, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Oct. 16 in the Performing Arts Center at Union High School, 6201 N.W. Friberg-Strunk St., Camas. Masks will be required. The program includes compositions inspired by sounds and sights of everyday […]
To provide the public with hands-on experience of daily life as a trooper in 1855, Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, in partnership with Academia Duellatoria, is holding training sessions in the methods and drills used in the 19th century to instruct in the use of this distinctive weapon. Training and drills for sword work are […]
Joseph and Julieann Platt will teach weekly Latin, country, and ballroom dance lessons starting at Vancouver Fitness Studio, 9212 N.E. Highway 99, Suite 110. Beginners' salsa and merengue classes will be held from 6 to 6:45 p.m., no experience required. Intermediate country two-step classes will be held from 6:45 to 7:30 p.m. Intermediate foxtrot classes […]
Cinema of Horrors drive-in movie experience returns to the Clark County Event Center at the Fairgrounds, 17402 N.E. Delfel Rd, Ridgefield, with classic horror movies playing from Oct. 7-31; see the full list of films below or visit ridgefield.cinemaofhorrors.com. The event is a live-action horror movie experience where screams from the screen come to life. […]
The twisted minds at ScareGrounds PDX present three bone-chilling haunted attractions at Oaks Park, 7805 S.E. Oaks Park Way, Portland, from Sept. 30 through Oct. 30. ScareGrounds is open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, plus Oct. 26, 27 and 31. Experience The Silver Scream, Grimthorne Manor and The Complex haunted houses, plus dodge monsters on the […]
The League of Women Voters of Clark County will offer voter registration and nonpartisan information about the Nov. 8 General Election at Firstenburg Community Center from 8 a.m. to noon Oct. 17
