I was 22 the first time I went to the McKittrick Hotel. Every line of Macbeth, Punchdrunk’s leadership was fond of saying, could be found somewhere in the McKittrick: translated into a flock of dead birds in the Macduffs’ apartments, a hidden letter in an antique drawer, a secret room in the asylum where Lady Macbeth performs, wordlessly, a version …
A scene from the performance on the bus. "I cannot specify the impact of the show to China's immersive theater scene," Ma Chencheng, president of SMG Live, the live show branch of Shanghai Media Group, told media on the opening day of the bus tour. "If we say that the New York production has made the show known to the …
The lights are turned off. Think of the Ministry of Peculiarities as part escape room and part theatrical production, one that borders on immersive theater. Getting to the end and knowing you’re failing and also not knowing the ending of the story, whether it was compelling or not, was definitely one of our pet peeves of the industry.” It all …
An immersive “Star Wars” experience comes with expectations: Wielding a lightsaber. “A game gives people who are not actors the tools to pretend,” says Sara Thacher, one of the Galactic Starcruiser architects with Walt Disney Imagineering, the company’s secretive arm devoted to theme park experiences. By midafternoon on the second day, in which guests board a transporter truck — outfitted …
Jarrett Lantz inserts a cassette into a tape player, which is a key part of the “The Nest,” a video game-like show in which participants uncover the history of a woman’s life. Instead, “The Nest” asks us to piece together a life, to think deeply about our own memories and the ones we’re striving to create. From Disney’s new Star …
