Forget About Spaghetti Festival

Outside-the-box comedy theater the Elysian celebrates its first anniversary with 10 nights of genre-spanning shows—available à la carte or via a remarkably reasonable festival pass. The 17 shows span everything from a surreal clown play to a fake sitcom to a game of telephone, with a half-dozen free secret shows thrown in the mix, too. Oh, and if you’re trying to sort out that name? “Forget about spaghetti” was the response on the Frogtown-adjacent theater’s marquee to the semi-viral “spaghetti is back” sign at a diner down the street.