Theater
If you liked “Fishy Woo Woo,” playwright Monteze Freeland’s 2024 comedy about a group of elder millennial pals, just wait, there’s more. “Fishy Woo Woo, Part 2,” is now on stage at the Madison Arts Center, courtesy of Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Co. In what Freeland calls “a campy version of your favorite sitcom’s Halloween episode,” the gang from “Fishy” has relocated from Atlanta to Delaware, only to be wrapped up in a plot involving costumes, cocktails and a pregnancy. Lovell McFadden directs a cast of six. Performances continue through Mon., Nov. 2.

Theater
George Romero’s “Night of the Living Dead” was shot in Western Pennsylvania and all, but if you want a full-on Pittsburgh version of the zombie classic, Bricolage Production Company offers “Night of the Living Dead N’at” live on stage. It’s an original comic adaptation done in Bricolage’s signature Midnight Radio format, complete with live old-time-radio sound effects. The cast of local faves includes Tami Dixon, Sam Lothard and Sam Turich. It runs at City Theatre’s Lillie Theatre from Thursday, Oct. 29, through Nov. 15.

Dance
There are seven witches and a devil — and the devil isn’t sure whether he’s being worshipped or sacrificed. Pittsburgh’s fireWALL Dance Theater presents a new work titled “COVEN.” The troupe gives four performances during two weekends at Downtown’s Greer Cabaret Theater, Friday, Oct. 30, through Saturday, Nov. 7.

Visual Art
There might be no more soporific term than “public utility commission.” But a new group art exhibit at SPACE Gallery asks what if said commission were not some faceless corporate bureaucracy dedicated to water or gas service, but instead an everyday partner that worked with us to solve life’s little problems? “Public Utility Commission” features the work of more than a dozen artists from the region and as far afield as Italy and the Republic of Georgia. It’s curated by Jacquet Kehm and opens Fri., Oct. 30, with a free reception.

Festival
Some 100 small publishers, zines, galleries and more — even several exhibiting artists from this year’s Carnegie International — are the attraction at the Pittsburgh Art Book Fair. This free annual celebration of print that celebrates art, by presses from Pittsburgh and around the world, takes place this weekend in the grand foyer of the Carnegie Museum of Art. The book launches, performances and other programs run all day Saturday, Oct. 31, and Sunday, Nov. 1.

Festival
A bonfire dance party, mischievous shape-shifting púca creatures and, you know, piercing the veil between the living and ancestral worlds: If you really want to go old-school this Halloween, the Samhain celebration at Carrie Blast Furnaces National Historic Landmark might be for you. The Pittsburgh Irish Festival and ANAM Arts team for their version of the ancient Celtic seasonal observance, a Halloween precursor marking harvest’s end and the transition into the year’s darker half. Expect ritual art, local food, drink and crafts, and live music and dance by Devilish Merry, Denizen and the Coleman brothers. Samhain 2026 runs 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 1.