Cleveland Weekend Calendar Fills With Halloween Concerts, Food Trucks and Theater

Halloween programming across Northeast Ohio this weekend centers on a Friday night concert at the Maltz Performing Arts Center in Cleveland's University Circle. A Haunted Evening of Halloween Classics begins at 8:30 p.m. and places the Listeso String Quartet among thousands of flameless LED candles. The program pairs Saint-Saëns' "Danse Macabre" and Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain" with themes from the films "Psycho" and "Halloween."

The schedule moves to Canton on Saturday. A Halloween Truck or Treat runs from noon to 8 p.m. at the Stark County Fairgrounds, with about two dozen food trucks serving lunch and dinner. Candy is distributed to children at no charge, and vendors will sell Halloween-themed crafts. Admission to the fairgrounds event is free, and a costume contest is planned.

At the Greater Cleveland Aquarium on Flats West Bank, Pumpkins and Piranhas runs Friday from 5:30 to 8 p.m., with last admission at 7 p.m. The after-hours program puts children near piranhas and other tropical fish. Sharks are displayed around the aquarium's sea tube.

Two Canton stages host separate performances. The Canton Symphony Orchestra and the Players Guild of Canton present "Jekyll & Hyde" on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Zimmermann Symphony Center and Umstattd Performing Arts Hall. A Sunday matinee follows at 3 p.m. The staging draws on Robert Louis Stevenson's 1880s novella "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," which has since been adapted into movies, comic books, video games and a Broadway musical.

Back in Cleveland, musicians Jeremy McCabe and Max Schlenk perform a Frank Zappa retrospective on Saturday at 8 p.m. at BOP STOP in Hingetown. The set, billed as "Schlenk Zappa," marks 60 years since the Mothers of Invention released their debut album, "Freak Out!" Zappa died more than three decades ago and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.