Fireside’s Haunted Holiday Spectacular II: On Ice! at The Slipper Room

FIRESIDE MYSTERY THEATRE PRESENTS

Fireside’s Haunted Holiday Spectacular II: On Ice! 

A Live Recording of the Celebrated Podcast

New York. Monday December 8th, 2025—Get festive with your friends at Fireside! Fireside Mystery Theatre, an acclaimed and award-winning audio theater production company, is proud to announce the world premiere of our second annual Christmas Special Fireside’s Haunted Holiday Spectacular II: On Ice! coming to New York City on Sunday, December 21st at 5pm (doors open at 4:30pm) at the Slipper Room. 

Now celebrating over a decade as a podcast, Fireside Mystery Theatre is an original audio podcast performed and recorded in front of a live audience. Styled in the fashion of old-time radio theatre with a decidedly modern macabre sensibility, the popular podcast has been running since 2014 with over 3 million downloads and has received accolades from The New York Times and awards from the Rhode Island International Film Festival, New Jersey Web Fest, New Zealand Web Fest and many more.

Fireside’s Haunted Holiday Spectacular II: On Ice! features an overflowing cornucopia of seasonal stories, extraordinarily special guests, magical musical acts, and an absolutely unrelenting cascade of holiday joy that will shatter your sense of wonder and leave you terrifyingly entertained. 

Notable Accolades:

The New York Times hails Fireside Mystery Theatre as “a delightfully stylized variation of the classic ‘old timey radio’ tradition.”

Popsugar says Fireside Mystery Theatre has “an incredible cast that brings to life stories you have to hear to believe.”

About.com describes Fireside Mystery Theatre as “like a combination of listening to a cathedral radio and constructing scenes with your mind’s eye.” 

Fireside's Haunted Holiday Spectacular II: On Ice! will be the fifth and final live show in our 2025 bi-monthly residency at The Slipper Room (167 Orchard St, New York, NY 10002) on NYC’s Lower East Side with a full cast, sound effects, an improvised musical score, and musical acts that complement our anthology of stories. Tickets are $20 and available online at www.slipperroom.com, as well as at the door. 

For more information visit: www.firesidemysterytheatre.com.

Additional credits: 

Featured performers: Ali Silva, Kacie Laforest, Michael Drummey, Valerie Markham Miller, Imran Sheik, and James Kleinmann

Featured Musical Acts: Shelly Bhushan, Mike Hollis, and Gustavo Rodriguez

Featured Writers: Lizz Leiser, Kacie Laforest, and Silbin Sandovar

Directed by: Ali Silva and Lizz Leiser

Live music and improvised underscoring: Timothy Johnson

Sound Design: Greg Russ and Ali Silva

Sound Engineer: Wayne Silver

Technical Direction: Johnny Goddard

Photography: Morgan Shortell 

FMT theme music was composed by BAFTA-award-winning composer Jason Graves.

The live show and podcast are produced by Gustavo Rodriguez and Ali Silva for Fireside Mystery Productions. 

Fireside's Haunted Holiday Spectacular II: On Ice!  At-a-glance

What:  Fireside's Haunted Holiday Spectacular II: On Ice! 

Run Time: 90 minutes

Where: The Slipper Room, 167 Orchard St, New York, NY 10002. Entrance on Stanton Street. Closest subway: 2nd Ave F train (1st Ave exit)

When: Sunday, December 21st, 4:30pm doors, 5pm curtain

Cost:  Tickets $20 available in advance online and at the door. There is no drink minimum.

Site:  firesidemysterytheatre.com