Terror Tales 2025

Beginning Friday, October 24 and running weekends through Sunday, November 2, Westchester Collaborative Theater (WCT) in Ossining, NY, will present Terror Tales, the theater group’s Halloween-themed 10-Minute Play Festival. The success of the program, launched last year, encouraged WCT to expand the event to span two weekends.

A group of seven original plays and monologues, ranging in tone from creepy and comic to macabre and poignant, written by WCT playwrights, will be performed by a large cast of company actors. WCT actor Dan Slavin (Scarborough) will reprise his widely lauded role from the inaugural festival to host the evening in true somber and scary Vampire-esque style. The event is the brainchild of WCT actor/writer/director/producer Lori M. Myers (Nanuet), author of Crawlspace, a collection of dark fiction and horror, who is co-producing in tandem with WCT Executive Director Alan Lutwin (Ossining). Terror Tales will be held at WCT’s black box performance space at 23 Water St. in Ossining, NY. Allison Schneider (New City) is the stage manager.

The Terror Tales are:

Bayou Secrets written and directed by Jessica W. Bonds (Yonkers), featuring Michael Candelario (New Rochelle), James Leeper (Tarrytown) and Robin Hackett.

• In the stillness of the bayou, the wind reveals the truth.

Easy on the Coffee, written and directed by Bette Siler (Nyack), featuring Tina D’Amato (Yonkers) and Eric Suben (Mamaroneck).

• Death will find you anywhere… even in your softest chair.

Rosemarie’s Baby written by Kathryn Rossetter (Peekskill), directed by RJ D’Amato (Yonkers), featuring Tina D’Amato (Yonkers), Julian Hargrove (Sleepy Hollow) and Katharine Morse (Peekskill).

• An overbearing doula’s demanding rules push expectant parents to the brink—unleashing twisted and unsettling consequences.

Trampled Leaves, written by Pat O’Neill, directed by Howard Lipson (Tarrytown), featuring Adam Black (Tarrytown) and Gretchen Craig.

• Reality and grief collide in this tale of a couple trying to hold it together.

The Great Partridge Killer by Evelyn Mertens (Briarcliff Manor), directed by Stephanie Straface (Carmel), featuring Samantha Darling (Croton on Hudson).

• The ghost of a young person gone astray nearly 200 years ago returns to ask the audience to ponder the true meaning of sin.

Last Look written and directed by Peter Andrews (Mahopac), featuring Sandy Rooney (Dobbs Ferry).

• An outcast woman struggles to talk a mob of vigilantes out of murdering her.

Son of Young Frankenstein by Stephen Hersh (Ossining) and Eric Glickman (Croton on Hudson), directed by Lin Snider (Tarrytown), featuring Benna Strober (Bedford Hills), Dan Forman (Yorktown Heights) and Julian Hargrove (Sleepy Hollow).

• Return to the lab of Young Frankenstein - who is now an old man! With a freshly found brain and the help of Igor and Olga, can Dr. Frankenstein achieve fame & glory while making the world a better place?

Terror Tales will run on Friday, October 24 and October 31 at 7:30 pm; Saturday, October 25 and November 1 at 2pm & 7:30 pm; and Sunday, October 26 and November 2 at 3pm. There will be a talkback with the production team following the Saturday, October 25

matinee performance. Tickets are $25 general admission; $20 for seniors/students/WCT Members

Also check out other Arts events in Ossining, Theatre events in Ossining, Festivals in Ossining.