{"title": "The hAUNTing", "start": "2026-10-31T00:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "The Chocolate Factory Theater", "address": "24th Street 38-33, 11101 Long Island City", "price": "FREE with RSVP", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "dance", "tags": ["occasion/halloween", "stage/performance-art"], "description": "AUNTS takes over The Chocolate Factory Theater for 'The hAUNTing', a Halloween event that is a haunted house, a performance party, a concert, an altar, and a shifting maze all at once. Performances by Stephanie Acosta, Marguerite Hemmings, Kashia Kancey, Hadley Smith, Shamar Watt, Lauren Bakst + Kris Lee, Jesse Zarritt, and Holland Andrews, designed, tended, and dreamed by Jordan Lloyd, jess pretty, and Myssi Robinson. Throughout the night things appear and reappear: ghosts, guides, ushers, spirits, plant fairies, and grandmothers, as rooms shift and the architecture changes its mind. Guests may be led somewhere, asked to follow, witness, listen, dance, remember, or disappear, and are encouraged to come dressed for the occasion and ready to move.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-haunting-56456/", "official_url": "https://chocolatefactorytheater.org/aunts-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8cdd7ae0b7380e3e06b6fe7507c8a0e98621ccc7609c0be0bf03eafb910d6bef-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-31T00:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "The Chocolate Factory Theater", "address": "24th Street 38-33, 11101 Long Island City", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Slipper Room Halloween Midnight Show. 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Alta Cumbia play live Argentine Cumbia from 7 to 10 PM, then Mica, Sapienta, Tormenta and Chichadelico spin on the decks until 4 AM. 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It is staged by Theater for the New City, an East Village theater whose executive artistic director is Crystal Field, and 2026 marks its fiftieth incarnation of a tradition begun in 1974. A free outdoor festivity with performances and a children's costume contest gives way to indoor festivities across the theater's four-theater complex, with cabaret acts, ballroom dancing by Art Lillard's Heavenly Big Band and Mr. Pablo's Latin Dance Band, an aerial dance concert by Caytha Jentis, and dining in the Witch's Cauldron pop-up restaurant. 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It is held by the museum and features an interactive soft sculpture installation by Mookntaka, the Brooklyn-based artist duo of Mark Zlotsky and Karyn Lao, whose cheerful inflatable sculptures encourage people of all ages to connect through play. Visitors can also pose in a Boo! photo booth and join art-making including mask making, spooky pom-poms with resident artist Karyn Lao, and pop-up Halloween cardmaking with artist Hayley Ferber.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/spooktacular-mad-halloween-party-54032/", "official_url": "https://www.madmuseum.org/events/spooktacular-mad-halloween-party", "image": "https://noky.io/images/53c7b94f642a5abde671a301353b632e76ee2d9919b70d0ee36e9bb05ad16d83-2000.webp"}]}