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“The Black History Museum…According to the United States of America”

Posted by Abigail Weil | 15th Nov 2019 | Immersive Theatre, New York, Participatory Theatre, Review

The Black History Museum….According to the United States of America, Smoke & Mirrors...

Between the Virtual and Real

Posted by Renu Ramanath | 4th Nov 2019 | Adaptation, Immersive Theatre, India, Review

Four strangers, a car and a video call make the play Bhranthu an unconventional visual experience....

“Found” at The Cell: Immersive Theatrical Experience

Posted by Jack Wernick | 23rd Oct 2019 | Immersive Theatre, New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America

Multi-disciplinary hothouse The Cell in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood is currently home to...

“The Unnatural And Accidental Women”: The Voices Of The Disappeared Still Speak To Us In This Immersive Event

Posted by Alvina Ruprecht | 15th Oct 2019 | Canada, Immersive Theatre, Review, Theatre and Gender

Let’s be clear from the outset. This performance has absolutely nothing to do with Surrealism, nor...

H.G., A Well-Executed Theatre Installation

Posted by Gowri S | 14th Oct 2019 | Immersive Theatre, India, Review

I am inside a dark room, saved by a lone light and a single stool. On one side is a curtain, but...

“Distancias Cortas” (Short Distances): Four Spaces, Four Moments

Posted by Lorena Meeser | 23rd Sep 2019 | Adaptation, Immersive Theatre, Mexico, Review

A wonderful experience of intimate theatre. Distancias Cortas is a scenic production that presents...

There But For the Grace: Cusi Cram’s “Novenas for a Lost Hospital”

Posted by Abigail Weil | 19th Sep 2019 | Immersive Theatre, LGBTQ Theatre, New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, Theatre and Religion, United States of America

The dramatis personae of Novenas for a Lost Hospital is wide-ranging. There are doctors and nurses...

HERE’s “Looking at You”: Exposure & Revelation

Posted by Abigail Weil | 17th Sep 2019 | Immersive Theatre, Musical Theatre, New York, Participatory Theatre, Review, Theatre and Opera, Theatre and Science, Transmedia, United States of America

My instinct is to describe Looking at You, the new opera from librettist Rob Handel, composer...

Jane Goodall’s Immersive Paper Forest Promotes Conservation

Posted by Zolima Citymag | 29th Aug 2019 | Design, Hong Kong, Immersive Theatre, Theatre and Politics, Theatre and Science

A rainforest has risen on the ground level of the Hong Kong Science Museum. Leaves rustle...

Edinburgh Fringe 2019: “Are We Not Drawn Onward to New Era” at Zoo Southside

Posted by Duška Radosavljević | 16th Aug 2019 | Belgium, Edinburgh 2019, Festivals, Immersive Theatre, Review, United Kingdom

Since their first understated but instantly successful visit to Edinburgh in 2008 with their...

Site-Specific, Immersive, and Interactive Theatre at the Napoli Teatro Festival 2019

Posted by Erin B. Mee | 21st Jun 2019 | Festivals, Immersive Theatre, Italy, Napoli Teatro Festival 2019, Participatory Theatre, Review

Most writing on site-specific, immersive, and interactive theatre focuses on productions in...

ArtNowThus Presents “The Mad Tea Party”

Posted by Vikram Phukan | 18th Jun 2019 | Immersive Theatre, India, Review

ArtNowThus, the intriguingly named new theatre group that is the brainchild of Ragini Singh...

PQ 2019: A New Reality

Posted by Abigail Weil | 9th Jun 2019 | Czech Republic, Design, Festivals, Immersive Theatre, News, Prague Quadrennial 2019, Transmedia

The fourteenth installment of the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space (PQ) kicked...

Raamji Aayenge: When Beckett Met Valmiki

Posted by Vikram Phukan | 22nd May 2019 | Acting, Immersive Theatre, India, Review

Playing at the ongoing Damu Kenkre Smriti Mahotsav tonight is a fairly new production directed by...

Video Games As Extensions Of Theater

Posted by Sravasti Datta - The Hindu.com | 6th May 2019 | Immersive Theatre, India, News, Transmedia

In Somewhere, players set out for Kayamgadh, a mythical city of storytellers in colonial India. In...

Duchampian Theater: “Paul Swan is Dead and Gone”

Posted by Abigail Weil | 3rd May 2019 | Immersive Theatre, LGBTQ Theatre, Musical Theatre, New York, Review, United States of America

Let Paul Swan seduce you. Why wouldn’t you? He is, after all, the most beautiful man in the world....

“Albumen”: A Living Hotblooded Art Piece

Posted by Alvina Ruprecht | 10th Apr 2019 | Acting, Canada, Immersive Theatre, Review

The Arts Court Theatre is the perfect intimate space for the experimental performance piece...

Any One Thing’s “Recollection”: Breaking The Threshold Of Immersive Theatre

Posted by Aida Rocci | 31st Mar 2019 | Immersive Theatre, London, Participatory Theatre, Review, United Kingdom

Recollection takes up to six participants in a thrilling journey about the importance of memories and personal data. Going beyond the sensational premise, the budding Any One Thing ambitiously explores the ideas of ‘personalized’ and ‘immersive’ theatre in depth, taking the genre to the boundaries of what is real.

“The Justice Syndicate”: How Do You Make Decisions? Immersive Theatre and Jury Duty

Posted by Aida Rocci | 27th Feb 2019 | Immersive Theatre, London, Participatory Theatre, Review, United Kingdom

An empty room. A large table. 12 iPads, 12 note pads, and 12 name desk holders that designate “Juror” along with a number. That is the simple setting for The Justice Syndicate, a new piece by fanSHEN. This interactive play revolves around a jury deliberation on a high-profile sexual assault case.