FrostyFest is right here!
Theater producers The StageCrafts have launched the primary ever vacation themed theater pageant in Los Angeles. The pageant gives patrons a spirited assortment of seven seasonal classics and new vacation fare over the following two weeks!
See, share and absorb the vacation spirit!
Helmed by veteran stage artists and producers Greg and Jenn Crafts, FrostyFest is a sequence of seven distinctive holiday-themed reveals. All ranging in size, idea and elegance, some are on the great record and a few the naughty. Shows are being introduced back-to-back from December 12-22 on a number of nights at The Hobgoblin Playhouse. The occasion marks the primary time ever in Los Angeles that patrons can take pleasure in seasonal theatrical fare in a pageant setting.
“People are always looking for things to do during the holiday season, and we’re giving them a lot to choose from, both family friendly and more irreverent,” stated Jenn Crafts. “FrostyFest is an opportunity to see holiday shows in a Fringe-like setting with multiple shows going up a day and runtimes from 30-90 minutes. So it’s entirely possible to make a day out of seeing a few very different holiday shows in a row in the same amount of time it would take you to see something like a traditional Nutcracker or Christmas Carol.”
“You don’t see other holiday-themed performing arts festivals in L.A.,” stated Greg Crafts. “Sure, individual companies have their traditional holiday offerings, but we’re offering something bigger––a full lineup of holiday celebrations ranging from comedy to drama to action. There’s puppets, poetry, Jewish Space Lasers, and a 60-minute adaptation of A Christmas Carol performed by a cast of twenty! There’s something for everyone, no matter what you celebrate.”
Here are the seven productions that can make up the inaugural FrostyFest:
A Very DIE HARD Christmas: Come get a bit seasonal cheer as Theatre Unleashed brings again one among its hottest reveals for the Holidays! Action, humor, Professor Snape taking folks hostage, singing, dancing, the man from Family Matters, weapons, puppets, explosions, the EPA man from Ghostbusters getting punched within the face, Christmas miracles and acquainted vacation buddies galore. Maybe even an look by the legend himself, Santa Claus! This is way more than a stage model of the vacation basic, it’s parody at its finest.
Half-Past the Unlucky: On Christmas Eve, two EMTs discover themselves caught between a scatterbrained affected person and the impolite receptionist of a hospital ready room. They have been advised they have to wait until morning for his or her affected person to be admitted. Will they sacrifice their private lives or use their crafty to make it residence?
Ugly Cry Christmas: Ugly Cry Christmas is about Candy, a dejected 19-year-old barista dwelling on her personal in Portland, Oregon and Gertrude, an aged lady who shares her loneliness on a message board. Will their unlikely intergenerational friendship blossom in time to make sure neither spends Christmas alone, or will their variations preserve them aside?
A Christmas Carol in 60 Minutes: First revealed in 1843, A Christmas Carol tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge’s overcome selfishness. This defines the vacation as a time for household, reflection, and giving. This recent 60-minute adaption captures this and a lot extra.
A Child’s Christmas in Wales: This one-man retelling of Dylan Thomas’ basic poem will convey you again to an easier time and place and enable you to to seek out the magic of the season by way of Thomas’ stunning phrases.
Kosher Salt: Told with each humor and gravitas, Kosher Salt is a journey by way of Jewish comedy and Jewish tragedy. A clown present, a private memoir, and a rollicking journey by way of some actual robust shit. Abel Horwitz goes to resolve antisemitism in 45 minutes. You’re welcome.
The Comedy Roast of Santa Clause Hosted by Krampus: Get within the ho-ho-holiday spirit with The Comedy Roast of Santa Claus, hosted by Krampus! We’ve kidnapped Mr. Sandy Claus, and we’re going to spill the coco with particular company together with Mrs. Claus and elves. Tis’ the season of giving, and belief us, our comics are actually going to GIVE IT to Santa.
About The StageCrafts
Since founding StageCrafts in 2017, Greg and Jenn Crafts have hosted tons of of productions at numerous venues, together with The Hobgoblin, The Madnani Theater, Howard Fine Acting Studio, Javista Coffee and the previous Studio/Stage. FrostyFest took place from each the recognition of the Hollywood Fringe Festival and the numerous actors they’ve labored with wishing aloud for a Fringe-style pageant to occur through the holidays. The Crafts additionally noticed the potential and stated, “well, how about we do it!”
The StageCrafts wished to verify they provided all kinds of programming like reveals with established pedigrees (like Kosher Salt and the viewers favourite A Very DIE HARD Christmas) in addition to new reveals for audiences to see.
Other festivals deliberate by The StageCrafts in 2025, embody a thriller/suspense/thriller-themed occasion referred to as SleuthFest. There can also be BardFest, which focuses on Shakespeare and his contemporaries (plus spinoff works) and the sci-fi/fantasy-themed MythicFest. The finest reveals in these numerous festivals might be invited again to carry out as a part of The StageCrafts Spotlight Series later within the yr.
Information on dates, instances, and ticket costs (which vary from $10-$30) could be discovered at FrostyFestLA.com. You can even comply with them @TheStageCrafts on Facebook and Instagram.
Photo by Matt Kamimura: The, “A Very DIE HARD Christmas” solid.