The Elysian's Fourth Annual SPAGHETTI FESTIVAL
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Fall 2025
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The Elysian's Fourth Annual SPAGHETTI FESTIVAL ★★★ Fall 2025 ★★★
The Elysian’s Acclaimed New Works Festival
11/12 - 11/16
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2025 Vault shows!
2025 Vault shows!
This month, from PAST spaghetti festIVALS
After multiple sold out runs at the Elysian, the 2024 Netflix Is A Joke Festival and New York, we're proud to bring back the incredible LBJ: The Play (@lbjtheplay) to its original home.
In LBJ: The Play, a 5th grade teacher hires local performer Sunny Zimmerman to give a simple historical presentation as Lyndon B. Johnson. The only problem is, Sunny’s gone method. They’ve been living and breathing as Lyndon Johnson and LBJ's decided that this is his one chance to salvage his legacy - with an ambitious theatrical production. As his vision doesn't go according to plan, the boundaries between actor and role become increasingly blurred.
Named one of LA Times' favorite shows of Netflix is a Joke Festival 2024 and Best of Fest at the 2023 Elysian Spaghetti Festival.
Written by and starring Sunny Zimmerman. Directed by Caitlan Moore. With Katie Davis, Albert Muzquiz, and Soraya Perry. Devised by the cast.
You are cordially invited to Nosferatu’s Sweet 16! Accept the invitation at your own risk.
This October, Freak Nature & Friends transform the entire Elysian Theater into Nosferatu’s Castle — a maze of terrifying horrors, DIY puppetry, and one very interesting vampire family band. Avoid certain death on your passage through the haunted forest and suffocating dungeons to arrive at the Great Hall, where the birthday celebration truly begins. Will we party all night long? Or will things go horribly wrong, instigating a journey full of feral twists and devious turns featuring original music and giant puppets?
Back by popular demand and fully re-“vamped” since its first sold out run at the Elysian in 2023, you won’t want to miss Freak Nature’s one-of-a-kind haunted house experience & weirdo-pop giant puppet musical.
Our annual Spaghetti Festival is a central celebration of our mission to showcase and support the creation of boundary-breaking experimental comedy and live performance in Los Angeles. We invite the public to pitch us a big-swing idea for a show that lives only in their imagination, and has never seen the light of day. Selected artists work under a fast-approaching deadline: they have three months to bring their idea to life for a world-premiere on the Elysian stage. Showrunners receive artistic, production, and promotional support, subsidized rehearsal space, creative matchmaking, professional development, workshops, and industry panels. The Elysian team cheerleads the artists through the creative process, scaffolding them with resources while encouraging them to dream big for our small stage, to experiment, to dare to fail, to dare to be glorious–to throw spaghetti at the wall, and see what sticks. This year, over the four-day span of the 2025 Spaghetti Festival, the Elysian will premiere twenty brand new shows across our stages.
SPAGHETTI FESTIVAL 2024 LINEUP
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Clownchella
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Herein Lies The Truth
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The Irishman 2049
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Slürt
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The Furman of Wobby-Sobby
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The Ozzie & Harriet Family Reunion
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Cherry Baby: Certified Lover Girl
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Party For Time Travelers
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It All Started In The Garage
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Widdle Women
THE ANIMAL STAGE 2024
2023 Lineup | 2022 Lineup
The Spaghetti Festival is organized by The Elysian’s creative team: Jacquelyn Landgraf, Artistic Director; Jessica Kelley, Head of Programming; with the help of many other producers, performers, staff, volunteers, and The Elysian’s Board of Directors.