Friends Like These

Rising playwright Gregory Crafts’ powerful exploration of teen violence rides its popularity and critical praise to both the Hollywood and New York Fringe Festivals.

LOS ANGELES – After playing to sell out crowds in both 2009 and early 2010, endorsements from local press and critics (including a “GO!” from LA Weekly) and a nomination for Best Ensemble Cast at the Artistic Director Achievement Awards, the original piece Friends Like These is excited to announce that it has been accepted to both the acclaimed New York International Fringe Festival and the first-ever Hollywood Fringe Festival.

A new work that first debuted last fall with Theatre Unleashed, Friends Like These takes a candid and poignant look at the staggering issue of violence in our high schools. Garrett is an outsider who spends most of his troubled existence in a fantasy world called Haven…that is until he meets Nicole, the popular cheerleader with a cu...