Arts Roundup Spans Concerts, Theater, Film

South Sound-area arts highlights include a Gig Harbor screening of the 1925 silent film The Phantom of the Opera with live organ accompaniment, a new album from reunited Olympia rock duo Heavens to Betsy, and the Tacoma Film Festival, running through Oct. 25. Broadway’s Rock of Ages Band brought a high-energy set of 1980s rock hits to Rahway’s Union County Performing Arts Center, with vocalists and musicians performing songs by Poison, Twisted Sister, Night Ranger and others. WaterTower Theatre is opening its 31st season with Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a New World, featuring a cast led by its new producing artistic director, JC Schuster. Kuro Games’ Wuthering Waves concert tour made its Los Angeles stop at the Peacock Theater after sold-out shows in Asia; the company said the tour had drawn 50,000 attendees across six cities. Dark Star Orchestra is scheduled to perform in Brooklyn, continuing its practice of recreating Grateful Dead concerts from the band’s touring history.