Can't Miss It: Monday

Sandbox Podcast - We at Seattlest are big proponents of the Seattle Theater Scene and even bigger boosters for local playwrights, and tonight the Sandbox Artists Collective are bringing together some of our city's best acting and writing talents in order to record the second episode of Sandbox Radio, the Collective's podcast designed to spotlight these same talents. In fitting with the time of year, this episode has a Halloween theme and the evening's program includes a new adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's The Black Cat.

Tonight at 8:00p.m. // West of Lenin, 203 North 26th Street // Suggested Donation ($10)

Don't Go In Room 237: Given that it's Halloween season, it only stands to reason that the work Stephen King is going to be featured everywhere you look. Tonight, the Central Cinema will play host to two of King's more well known movies. One is a "classic" and the other is a horror Classic, without the quotation marks. Up first is the inept-yet-effective 1984 shlocker Children of the Corn, where blonde kids with bowl cuts eliminate the ever loving hell out of Linda Hamilton and some other dude. Corn is presented in Hecklevision™, where the audience can tweet their humorous rejoinder directly to the screen. The audience is then encouraged to put away their Tweety devices and settle in for Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, the rare horror movie that actually becomes scarier the more one sees it; plus Scatman Strothers as the butt of the world's cruelest punchline.

Tonight, Children of the Corn at 7:00p.m., The Shining at 9:30p.m. // Central Cinema, 1411 21st Avenue // Children of the Corn, $9; The Shining, $8

Aliens Ate His Buick: Though he's mostly known for a ubiquitous 80s pop hit that helped to get him labeled as a 'one hit wonder', Thomas Dolby is something of an unsung genius of the New Wave era -- more in common with Frank Zappa's and Lindsey Buckingham's solo work than Rick Astley. Tonight, Dolby invades the Triple Door, where he will host a small lecture, play music from his new album, A Map of the Floating City, and more than a few of his early hits. You know, like the one about the beautiful Miss Sakamoto whose science is blinding; yeah, that one.

Tonight at 8:00p.m. // The Triple Door, 216 Union Street // $25