
Exhibition exploring privatisation and public utility, curated by Jacquet Kehm and presented by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.

Free quarterly open house of visual arts, live music, dance and spoken word across the galleries and eclectic spaces of Pittsburgh's Cultural District.

Halloween party for the Global Ties international student leadership program with pumpkin painting, a costume contest, a prize wheel and candy.

Electronic music festival featuring performances by Tape B, Mersiv, Distinct Motive and SVDKO at Stage AE.

Mobile basketball trailer with four arcade hoops set up at Bakery Square for anyone to play and chase a high score.

Live R&B concert by Lyfe Jennings, with live guitar, bass and piano, at City Winery Pittsburgh.

Free farewell evening for the Pedantic Fall 2026 residency cohort, with a toast, light food and drinks, and a chance to meet the residents.

Candlelight tribute concert in which the Listeso String Quartet plays Metallica songs for strings under candlelight at the Heinz History Center.

An improvised fantasy adventure in which a troupe of 'merry vagabonds' throws modern-day characters into Shakespearean chaos.

The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra performs John Williams' score live to the film 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1'.

A haunted evening celebration with mums, airbrush artists, candy, and psychic storytelling; free with admission.
Halloween party with live music, projections and art installations at Wood Street Galleries, part of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust's Gallery Crawl.

Free book launch with artist Taylor Galloway, including a talk and screening of his short film, celebrating his monograph 'across the street from Heaven'.

Country concert by Texas artist Dylan Gossett and West Virginia singer Charles Wesley Godwin at Citizens Live at The Wylie.

Halloween staged reading by The Savoyards of J. Sheridan Le Fanu's 'Carmilla', one of the first vampire novels.

Family Halloween musical filled with music, dancing, laughter and Halloween thrills, a highlight of the Pittsburgh Playhouse's annual Fall Fest.

Halloween dance and music cruise for X-OUT Cancer, a 21+ only voyage on the Gateway Clipper at Station Square.

Halloween party night with costume dancing, opening on the mic with Pittsburgh MC WritersBlock412 and resident DJ Arie Cole.

One-night-only Halloween costume party with stand-up comedian Trevor Austin, with more than $1,500 in costume prizes, at 21+ Pittsburgh Improv.

Screening of the horror film 'Steel City Horror Show' at the Harris Theater in Pittsburgh.

Día de los Muertos celebration at Camino Coctelería & Cocina in Bloomfield, with $15 tickets whose proceeds benefit the Pittsburgh Hispanic Development Corporation.

Exhibition of large-scale paper doll compositions by Charlie Wallace, guest curated by Steph Neary, opening as part of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust's Gallery Crawl.
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An exhibition of botanical illustrations depicting native fungi species of Pennsylvania, displayed at the Phipps Garden Center.

Exhibition exploring the purpose of natural history museum collections through hands-on activities and displays, drawing on the museum's 22 million objects and specimens.

World premiere sequel to 'Fishy Woo Woo' in which a group of elder millennial friends in Delaware face the ghosts of their past on Halloween.

Self-guided audio walk through Pittsburgh's Central Business District, uncovering the city's history and legends at your own pace.

Screening of the 3D documentary 'Horse Power' on the 71-by-39-foot Rangos Giant Screen at the Kamin Science Center.

Weekly Tuesday creative movement class for children ages 0-5 and their grown-ups to move, play and connect through music and songs.

Year-long cohort program of monthly hybrid workshops and two full-day in-person sessions for new and returning academic leaders at Carnegie Mellon University.

World premiere of an immersive magic and storytelling experience by Michael Misko, set against Pittsburgh's haunted history.

Giant-screen documentary by Stephen Low Company aboard a freight train crossing North America, shown on the Rangos Certified Giant Screen.

Documentary about the wild beauty of Ohio, screened on the 71-by-39-foot Certified Giant Screen at Rangos.

A bilingual early learning programme for caregivers and children aged 0-5, run by La Escuelita Arcoiris in partnership with Duolingo's Early Learners First initiative.

Third annual free community street festival on Forbes Avenue with food and drinks, games, local vendors, arts and crafts, pumpkin painting and the family musical 'Boo's Halloween House Party'.

Ghost stories of old Pittsburgh told after dark on a one-hour night cruise of the Three Rivers, on Fridays and Saturdays through late October.

Family sci-fi comedy in which a girl is whisked away into a video-game galaxy of robots, aliens and pirates and must use her real-world strengths to find a new home.

Quantum Theatre's found-space production of Liza Birkenmeier's gothic suspense play 'radio island', with director Katie Brook.

First U.S. survey exhibition of Cecil McDonald, Jr., with photography, montage, film and a video installation exploring Black culture and masculinity.

Full-dome laser show that brings the '80s tunes and scenes of Stranger Things to life in the Buhl Planetarium.

Multimedia exhibit exploring how repeated imagery and objects challenge notions of originality and authenticity.

Halloween pop-up bar with spooky décor, themed cocktails, music, games and costumed characters, for over-21s only.

Free guided tour of the 59th Carnegie International, created by artist Brooke O'Harra and the museum's docents, in which visitors respond to artworks through limited physical movement.

Six-week adult art course on water-based media (watercolour, gouache and ink) from the museum's 'Art School for Life' series.

Six-week Sunday class for adults on figure drawing, from plaster figures to a draped model, part of the museum's 'Art School for Life' series.

A night of family fun featuring a train ride through the zoo with thousands of hand-carved jack-o'-lanterns, spooky scavenger hunts and seasonal food and drink.

Ongoing exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art bringing together artworks that explore the artists' relationship to land and place.

Weekly Wednesday morning of chair and wheelchair yoga, art-making, guided gallery tours, meditations and art history classes for visitors aged 55 and over, with early entry.

Exhibition by Torkwase Dyson, with an animation at the Buhl Planetarium and a studio installation of drawings, paintings, objects and video, part of the 59th Carnegie International.

Screening of the 1958 Hammer Films classic 'Horror of Dracula' in a new 4K restoration with recovered footage.

Halloween racing series at the Kamin Science Center with a Halloween-themed track, spooky racing science activities and a free simulator race for those in costume.

Free exhibition at 820 Gallery on Liberty Avenue in Pittsburgh's Cultural District.

Immersive audio installation and listening environment by Hprizm, the moniker of Kyle Austin, with new recordings and sculptural works at Wood Street Galleries.

Concert by Shaheed Rucker at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center on Liberty Avenue.

Tony Award-winning musical that reimagines the Greek myths of Orpheus and Eurydice through folk, jazz and blues.

Free public sculpture by Rainbow Serpent co-founders Mikael Owunna and Marques Redd that reimagines the Egyptian sun deity Ra.

Public art project by Sharmistha Ray, painted as a geometric design on the playing surfaces of Arts Landing's pickleball courts.

Musical comedy adaptation of Night of the Living Dead, adapted by Tami Dixon and presented by Bricolage Production Company.