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Outdoor screenings cancel or postpone for rain and real wind, usually announced 2-4 hours ahead on the organizer's social feed, so check before driving. Ticketed events typically honor tickets at a rain date; free ones just evaporate. Build the double plan: know which indoor screening or streaming-plus-takeout night replaces it, and keep blankets in the car either way through October.
Only by choice at reputable shows: performers read the room, and the universal signals, back rows, avoiding eye contact, a polite headshake, are respected. Front-and-center seats plus enthusiasm are read as volunteering. If participation would genuinely ruin the night, email ahead or tell staff at the door; most productions happily flag you as watch-only. The listing's participation description means what it says.
A teller, minimal staging, and 60-90 minutes of local legends and true-crime-adjacent tales, often in a historic venue or by lantern light, spooky by suggestion rather than jump scares. It's genuinely all-ages at family sessions and darker at late shows, so match the session to your group. Arrive early for close seats; these shows land twice as hard in the front rows.