Brains, Yum!

In Dawn of the Dead, zombies famously took to the mall, staggering in their brainless zombie way through shops and food courts in search of fulfillment through consumption (brain consumption, but still). One supposes that this was meant to make a point. Starting tonight, Ron Megee and his zombies terrorize Crown Center for the Coterie Theatre’s second Halloween engagement of Night of the Living Dead. Megee and company have wrangled twice as many zombies as last year’s creep-out smash. Better still, they’ve retained much of the original cast: the excellent Angela Cristanello, Kimberly Queen and Darryl Jones as zombie bait and Scott Hobart (alternating with Cody Wyoming) as the zombie guitarist, stumbling around the stage and commenting musically on the proceedings. The show is more spooky than bloody, but the Coterie is recommending it for “older audiences.” The show starts at 7 p.m. at the Off Center Theatre on the third floor of Crown Center (2450 Grand). For more information, call 816-474-6552 or see coterietheatre.org.

Tuesdays-Saturdays. Starts: Oct. 9. Continues through Oct. 29, 2008