Plaza Outdoor Returns to Downtown El Paso This Weekend with ‘Rocky Horror’

The Plaza Classic Film Festival’s Plaza Outdoor series returns this weekend for the first of two weekends of free movies and concerts just down the street from the Plaza Theatre.

And it would not be complete without the annual open-air showing of the granddaddy of interactive movies: The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

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2022 Plaza Outdoor

On Friday and Saturday nights this weekend and next, a free movie will be screened outdoors, and as has become tradition, a performance by one of our many talented local bands will precede each movie.

The movies start at 9 p.m. with the local musical flavor getting underway at 7:30 p.m.

This year’s Plaza Classic Film Festival theme is women filmmakers, so all the artists preforming are female solo artists or female-fronted bands.

This Week: Rocky Horror, Sign O Times

The cult classic and El Paso fan favorite The Rocky Horror Picture Show returns for the 14th year.

You don't have to be a Sweet transvestite from Transexual Transylvania to do The Time Warp at the free outdoor showing, but you're more than welcome to dress as one. As is customary at any screening of the cult classic, costumes, and loud singing isn't just welcomed, it's encouraged.

Friday, July 29
Band: Sha’Vonne
Movie: Prince: Sign ‘O’ the Times
Cost: Free

Saturday, July 30
Band: Emily Davis and the Murder Police
Movie: The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Cost: Free

Next Week: Dirty Dancing, Little Shop

Friday, Aug. 5

Band: Twisted Hams
Movie: Dirty Dancing
Cost: Free

Saturday, Aug. 6

Band: Talia Leilani
Movie: Little Shop of Horrors
Cost: Free

Plaza Classic Film Festival

The Plaza Classic Film Festival, which is in its 15th year, takes place July 28-August 7, 2022 in and around the Plaza Theatre. More than 100 movies will be screened during its almost two-week run.

This year there will be featured guest appearances by El Paso native F. Murray Abraham, and Rita Moreno.