The creative team for this Capital T Theatre Company production seems fully aware of the darkness in Haidle’s comedy, but they bring to it a brightness that keeps the whole affair surprisingly light. Mark Pickell’s living-room set, with its flat, butcher-paper rug and walls outlined in thick, black marks and shaded in pastels, recalls a cheery coloring-book illustration. And Tiny Robinson’s Lucy seems just like the kid who colored it in; the actress – who is an adult – plays the child with the exuberance of a kindergartner set free at recess, all giddy, playful energy busting loose…More at AustinChronicle.com

Wine and dine —er, snack — while working on the craft of your choice. read more at austin360.com

German artist Michael Wutz is this year’s visiting artist in printmaking at the University of Texas. In a solo show, he exhibits his eerie landscapes that depict a quasi-apocalyptic vision of our world close to flat-lining.read more at austin360.com

Katherine Bash — aka the Principal Investigator for the Itinerant Laboratory for Perceptual Inquiry — looks for new meaning and new philosophy in the quotidian landscape around us, then uses photographs and poetry to bring it together.read more at austin360.com

Through numerous sequels and countless slasher knock-offs, not to mention the recent Rob Zombie “reimagining,” John Carpenter’s Halloween is still the best of its kind, a suggestive and genuinely frightening horror film that’s worth the grisly flotsam left in its wake. After stabbing his sister to death as a young boy, the remorseless Michael Myers spent years in a mental institution under the supervision of psychiatrist Donald Pleasence, waiting patiently for a chance to return to his hometown. Assigned to babysit two kids on Halloween night, Jamie Lee Curtis is the only person standing between the killer and the town’s many horny teenagers. Defusing the tension somewhat here is Master Pancake Theater’s cadre of expert hecklers, who will be joined for this special performance by one of the originators of the genre, Mystery Science Theater 3000 writer Mary Jo Pehl.

n Heather McDonald’s odd yet thoughtful one-man play, a lapsed Episcopal priest faces the ultimate test of faith when his wife, after several miscarriages, gives birth to a beautiful baby girl who is covered with downy white fur.read more at austin360.com