Upcoming: Fan-Produced webseries 'Dark Shadows,' beginning in January 2011

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Members of Austin's Weird City Theatre Company are producing

a weekly web series tribute to ABC's camp classic daytime serial "Dark Shadows" (1967-1971). Episodes will be available from January, 2011.

SCTC artistic director John Carroll will be appearing as vampire Barnabas Collins (image, above, by Russell Minton). The cast is drawn largely from actors who have appeared in previous WCTC productions in Austin, including Russell Minton, Patti Neff-Tiven, Kevin Gouldthorpe, and John W. Smith.

Full information about their non-commercial fan tribute series is available at their website Dark Shadows: The Web Series. Participants invite financial contributions via the indigogo website.

Nosferatu, Weird City Theatre Company at Dougherty Arts Center, October 22 - November 1

If you're looking for dark and spooky, then Weird City Theatre Company has got dark and spooky for you, down at the Dougherty Arts Center for the Thursday to Sunday Halloween weekend.

These connoisseurs of the unnerving have blended Bram Stoker's Dracula and F.W. Murnau's unauthorized German expressionist knock-off of the novel for a short, satisfying evening of the eerie.

You could view the 84-minute video of Murnau's 1922 silent film as preserved by the Cinemathèque française with an orchestral soundtrack either at Google video or at YouTube, but it may well be more fun to see Weird City reincarnate both the characters and the ghosts of those actors now long dead and gone.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .