Fall
Festival Fever!
Hundred Acres Manor Haunted
House
Dates: Visit the website for the dates.
Address: 1 Hundred Acres Drive,
Bethel Park
Contact: hundredacresmanor.com
Very scary! For ages 13 and up.
Hundred Acres Manor is one of the
area’s largest and most extreme haunted
attractions, spanning over 1 mile! You
will come face to face with some of
the most terrifying zombies, creatures,
monsters and products of your worst
nightmares. Hundred Acres Manor is a
nonprofit haunted house benefiting two
Pittsburgh charities. Visit the website for
more information.
Peters Township Haunted Trail
Dates: Oct. 5 & 6
Address: Peterswood Park, 750 Bebout
Road, Venetia
Contact: peterstownship.com
This is a haunted trail for all ages!
To meet the needs of everyone in the
family this haunted trail has two paths:
one for those who came to be scared,
and another for little ghosts and goblins
under 8. Visit the website for more
information.
Phantom Fright Nights at
Kennywood Park
Dates: The final weekend of
September, continuing on weekends
until Halloween.
Address: 4800 Kennywood Boulevard,
West Mifflin
Contact: kennywood.com
As the leaves turn and the days
shorten, darkness begins to fall over
Kennywood… Phantom Fright Nights
return. The award-winning spectacle of
terror has been recognized by USA Today
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for being among the best theme park
Halloween events in the country, and
was also named to Amusement Today’s
Golden Ticket Awards list of the best
Halloween theme park events. For more
information, visit the website.
Pumpkin Patch Trolley
Dates: A variety of October dates –
check the website.
Address: Pennsylvania Trolley
Museum, 1 Museum Road, Washington
Contact: pa-trolley.org
Enjoy the fall season while riding on
decorated trolleys! The trolleys will take
families to the Trolley Display building
where they can tour the large collection of
trolleys. Children can select a pumpkin
from the pumpkin patch, then take it to
the events room for decorating. There will
be children’s games and complimentary
refreshments. Add to the fall fun by
dressing up in your favorite costume.
Check the website for more details.
Spooktacular at Caste Village
Date: Tentative Event – visit the website
for more information.
Address: Caste Village Shopping
Center, 5301 Grove Road, Whitehall
Contact: castevillage.com
A day of family fun with pumpkin
painting, hayrides, trick-or-treating and
costume contests! Check the website for
more details.
Live Performances
‘Blithe Spirit’ presented by
Little Lake Theatre
Dates: Oct. 17-Nov. 2
Address: 500 Lakeside Drive South,
Canonsburg
Contact: littlelake.org
The smash comedy hit of the London
and Broadway stages, “Blithe Spirit” offers
up fussy, cantankerous novelist Charles
Condomine, re-married but haunted
(literally) by the ghost of his late first
wife, Elvira, who is called up by a visiting
“happy medium”: one Madame Arcati. As
the personalities clash, Charles’ current
wife, Ruth, is accidentally killed, “passes
over,” joins Elvira, and the two “blithe
spirits” haunt the hapless Charles into
perpetuity in this hilarious classic from
the playwright of “Hay Fever.” Visit the
website for information on purchasing
tickets and more details.
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Hollywood & Bollywood
presented by River City Brass
Band
Date: Oct. 8
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Address: Upper St. Clair High School,
1825 McLaughlin Run Road,
Upper St. Clair
Contact: rivercitybrass.org
Hollywood continues to produce a
treasure trove of fabulous music, but
there’s a whole other world of movie
music that’s a little less familiar to
Western audiences and no less amazing:
the music of India’s Bollywood. RCB’s
Hollywood & Bollywood concert will
reacquaint you with old favorites by John
Williams, Ennio Morricone and Danny
Elfman, but also introduce you to the
spicy sounds of “Meera Joota Hai Japani,”
“Jai Ho,” and “Badtameez Dil,” sung by
Akshay Hari.
Out of this World presented
by the Washington Symphony
Orchestra
Date: Oct. 12
Address: Trinity High School, 231 Park
Avenue, Washington
Contact: washsym.org
Take a trip to the moon and beyond
the stars with the talented WSO! Visit the
website for information on purchasing
tickets and more details.
‘War of the Worlds – The Panic
Broadcast’ presented by South
Park Theatre
Dates: Sept. 18-Oct. 5
Address: Corner of Brownsville Road
and Corrigan Drive, South Park
Contact: southparktheatre.com
An alien invasion throws humanity
into chaos in the classic sci-fi novel “The
War of the Worlds” but all it took to cause
a bit of real-life panic in the streets was
Orson Welles’ 1938 radio adaptation,
which some listeners mistook for news.
The WBFR radio ensemble recreates the
colorful events surrounding the infamous