Halloween’s my favorite holiday, so I may have gone a bit overboard on this one- here’s the first and probably only “Best Things: 100% Spooky Edition!” (With one non-spooky activity, because c’mon, give it a rest after October 31st, Jessica.)
Fri 27: Puppet Macbeth
The Players Theatre115 MacDougal St, 10:00 PM, $20 (regular) / $35 (premium)
What’s spookier and more Halloween-appropriate than The Scottish Play, ripe with blood and insanity? Watch ~puppets~ perform this haunting classic that will surely ring in your most ghoulish nightmares of usurping kings and sinister wives!
Fri 27: Rick and Morty Halloween Party
411 Troutman St, Brooklyn, NY, 10:00 PM – 4:00 AM, $27
Morty! It’s a (burp) Halloween party, Morty! And there are prizes, and beer, and drinking, and costumes, Morty! And that’s not all, Morty. There’s trivia. Trivia that goes waaaaay Morty, and TV episodes, Morty. I’ll see you there, Morty. Just be there.
Sat 28: 17th Annual Fort Greene Park Halloween Festival
Fort Greene Park, 85 S Oxford St, Brooklyn, 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM, Free
It’s a good old fashioned Halloween party! We’re talkin’ pumpkins! Food truck (I assume haunted)! Face paint! If you’re not having fun, you’re not paying attention!
Sat 28: Haunted Beer Garden Party
Loreley Beer Garden, 7 Rivington St, 10:00 PM – 2:00 AM, Free
Step on in to the heated outdoor beer garden, where the top winning costume wins a $250 beer tab! Grab a mini pumpkin keg (adorable), a special friend, and get to spookin’. I mean drinkin’.
Sun 29: Halloween Pumpkin Flotilla
Charles A. Dana Discovery Center, Central Park, 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM, Free
I’m so darn enchanted just by looking at pictures of the flotilla that I barely feel the need to describe it. But I will! It’s an afternoon of crafts, spooky stories, costumes, and finally – a flotilla of jack o’lanterns bright enough to make the ghosts stop their ceaseless wailing!
Tues 31: Village Halloween Parade 2017
6th Ave. from Spring to 16th Street, 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM, Free
You can keep your St. Patrick’s Day Parade- the Halloween Parade is the best gatdam parade in this city. Get there early enough to do the walk up on the parade route (wear a costume, ya knucklehead) so you don’t have to stand shivering in the chill while you’re gawking at all the amazing costumes.
Tues 31: Soviet 80’s Halloween Party 2017
DROM 85 Avenue A, 10:00 PM – 2:00 AM, $10
Dance tunes from the 80’s? I know what to expect! What, it’s dance tunes popular in the Soviet Union? Now that’s something new! I have no idea what you’ll hear on the dance floor, but I bet it’ll be dance-worthy and the costumes will be out of sight. повеселись!
Thurs 2: “Mad About You” [“La Folia”]
Marc A. Scorca Hall at The National Opera Center, 330 7th ave, 8:00 PM, 8:00 – 9:00 PM, $15 (student and senior)/$20(all others)
At this multimedia event, you’ll enjoy a visual anthology of 24 short stories featured in a 12-minute film that draws its inspiration from an ancient melody. Then enjoy a concert featuring members of Ensemble Leonarda as they interpret the works of the various composers who were inspired by this tune. How is this Halloween-related? Well, Halloween’s over, kids! Give it a rest!
