Better late than never — this month we highlight shows dealing with the end of the world, life after an earthquake, or life after death, undead-style. Heavy stuff.

>> First, the end of the world: The Rapture comes to Idaho in A Bright New Boise, being performed by Woolly Mammoth (Oct. 10).

>> Next, natural disasters. Rorschach Theater is back in business, this time at the Atlas, with the show After The Quake (Oct. 10).

>> And for the zombie and demon lovers among us, there’s always Landless, who will perform Evil Dead The Musical (Oct. 14).

Also This Month:

• Arena’s latest is a new comedy, The Book Club Play (Oct. 7).
• Scena has its own take on the tragedy Oedipus Rex with Greek (Oct. 15).
• Othello #1 is at Folger Theatre (Oct. 18).
• Othello #2, silent-style, is at Synetic (Oct. 19).
• The war-centered ReEntry debuts at Round House Bethesda (Oct. 18).
• Constellation performs Shaw’s Arms and the Man (Oct. 20).
• Just in time for Halloween, we have The Poe Show, courtesy of RepStage (Oct. 21).
• Theater J takes on the Arthur Miller classic After The Fall (Oct. 26).
• 1st Stage has a new play on the docket: The How and the Why (Oct. 28).
• Doorway Arts, now in its new home base in Montgomery County, performs the East Coast premiere of Sex and Education (Oct. 28).
• Obscure Sondheim Alert! Signature performs Saturday Night.

Still Playing: This weekend is your final opportunity to catch American Century’s The Country Girl, Faction of Fools’ comedy The Mandrake, Signature’s Sweet Tea, and Shakespeare Theater’s Fela, Oct. 15 weekend marks the end for Mad Forest at Forum, both new musicals, The Boy Detective Fails and The Hollow, at Signature, MetroStage‘s Savage in Limbo, and Lungs at Studio; Oct. 23 is closing time for Studio’s Habit of Art, Arena Stage’s Trouble In Mind, and Olney’s Witness for the Prosecution; you’ve until the end of the month to get tickets for the poignant Parade at Ford’s and the new Les Miserables at Kennedy Center .