{"id":316811,"date":"2026-10-29T10:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T10:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/316811\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T10:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T10:28:08","slug":"this-weekend-a-zombie-classic-live-witches-dance-in-coven-and-pittsburgh-art-book-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/316811\/","title":{"rendered":"This weekend: A zombie classic live, witches dance in ‘COVEN’ and Pittsburgh Art Book Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"

Theater
If you liked \u201cFishy Woo Woo,\u201d playwright Monteze Freeland\u2019s 2024 comedy about a group of elder millennial pals, just wait, there\u2019s more. \u201cFishy Woo Woo, Part 2,\u201d<\/a> is now on stage at the Madison Arts Center, courtesy of Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Co. In what Freeland calls \u201ca campy version of your favorite sitcom\u2019s Halloween episode,\u201d the gang from \u201cFishy\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

Theater
George Romero\u2019s \u201cNight of the Living Dead\u201d was shot in Western Pennsylvania and all, but if you want a full-on Pittsburgh version of the zombie classic, Bricolage Production Company offers \u201cNight of the Living Dead N\u2019at\u201d<\/a> live on stage. It\u2019s an original comic adaptation done in Bricolage\u2019s 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\u2019s Lillie Theatre from Thursday, Oct. 29, through Nov. 15.<\/p>\n

Dance
There are seven witches and a devil \u2014 and the devil isn\u2019t sure whether he\u2019s being worshipped or sacrificed. Pittsburgh\u2019s fireWALL Dance Theater presents a new work titled \u201cCOVEN.\u201d<\/a> The troupe gives four performances during two weekends at Downtown\u2019s Greer Cabaret Theater, Friday, Oct. 30, through Saturday, Nov. 7.<\/p>\n

Visual Art
There might be no more soporific term than \u201cpublic utility commission.\u201d But a new group art exhibit at SPACE Gallery<\/a> 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\u2019s little problems? \u201cPublic Utility Commission\u201d features the work of more than a dozen artists from the region and as far afield as Italy and the Republic of Georgia. It\u2019s curated by Jacquet Kehm and opens Fri., Oct. 30, with a free reception.<\/p>\n

Festival
Some 100 small publishers, zines, galleries and more \u2014 even several exhibiting artists from this year\u2019s Carnegie International \u2014 are the attraction at the Pittsburgh Art Book Fair<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n

Festival
A bonfire dance party, mischievous shape-shifting p\u00faca 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<\/a> 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\u2019s end and the transition into the year\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TheaterIf you liked \u201cFishy Woo Woo,\u201d playwright Monteze Freeland\u2019s 2024 comedy about a group of elder millennial pals,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-316811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}