Credit: Myrrh Larsen

Penny Dreadful: A Night Carnival of Victorian Horror

Old Town Chinatown

When

Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025

7 p.m.–11:55 p.m.

Cost: Starting at $25.00

Where

Star Theater and Starlight Lounge

13 NW 6th Ave
Portland, OR 97209

The following description was submitted by the event organizer.

This November, yield to temptation and celebrate all things dark and decadent at Penny Dreadful: A Night Carnival of Victorian Horror. Thanksgiving weekend, keep the spooky spirit alive with a feast of flesh, fantasy, and fortune. Bringing some of Portland’s best in aerial circus, burlesque, dance, and live music for an evening of costumes, cocktails, and performances to sate your immortal longings. This costume party and variety show invites you to indulge in your darkest desires as vampires, werewolves, and tragic villains mingle in a four-hour seance, bringing back the Victorian Gothic era. Inspired by Gothic horror books, movies, and television, Penny Dreadful is a night for every Poe, Stoker, and Shelly fan alike.

Come dressed as your favorite Gothic horror character or writer and enjoy sensuously indulgent cocktails from The Steep and Thorny Way to Heaven mixologists Myrrh Larsen and Megan Skye Hale, haunting wares from featured local vendors, and get a glimpse of your fate from the cards at the tarot table.

N95 or equivalent masks are highly encouraged for all guests when indoors. Guests incorporating an N95 or equivalent mask into their costume will receive a special thank-you gift.

As always, 100% of net ticket sales go directly to performers.

Performers:

• Mismonsta: bellydance (The Steep And Thorny Way To Heaven 2025 resident artist)
• Myrrh Larsen: live music
• Betsie Heart: burlesque
• Tora Holmes: aerial circus
• Bevin Victoria and Maria Thomas: movement and fight choreography
• Odette Thorne: aerial circus
• Duo Moon Moth: duo aerial hoop
• Speculative Drama: theater
• Emcee: Megan Skye Hale

Promotional Image: Myrrh Larsen