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Even though it feels like the midst of winter in most parts of North America right now, immersive things are definitely heating up around here, with one of our biggest North American newsletters ever at No Proscenium. Our show wire is bursting with show announcements and we’re so excited to see what else 2019 brings us.
Such as: this week Rolling Stone hit up Meow Wolf; the post-CES round-ups came out; the Royal Shakespeare Company announced a big new project with Punchdrunk and the creators of Fortnite; and the Sundance buzz is already starting to trickle in. Plus, we’ve got reviews and interviews coming in from all over and some great new links and resources from our friends in Immersive-Land! And a special After Dark episode of the podcast with four of our staff from NYC.
Check all this out, and more, below.
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ON THE PODCAST THIS WEEK
Kathryn gathers up part of the New York City team — Leah Ableson, Edward Mylechreest, and Michaela Holland — for one of our patented After Dark episodes. Come along as we meet the team!
Then, in LA, Noah finally gets down to an old fashioned rant about price/value.
Welcome back!
FROM THE WIRE: SHOWS, EVENTS, & EXPERIENCES
Austin: The Eureka Room
Baltimore: Time Travel Tours; Midwinter Midway: A Submersive Soiree
Chicago: The Soccer Player in the Closet; Lonely Hearts
Denver: Nourishment: Why Believe?
LA: 49 Boxes (Remount); The Willows (Remount); Red Flags (New Dates); Grunge Shop Tavern
Middletown, CT: This Between Shadow
New Orleans: Escape, Immersive, Explore; Stockholm Syndrome
NYC: Lucidian; Teknopolis™ 2019
Providence: Eskhaton
Seattle: Alien/Angel
SF: Space Pilots in Spaaaace! Episode 2: Crashing the Party; Escape, Immersive, Explore: The Palace;
Toronto: Practice Drill (Beta)
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REVIEWS
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From David & Lisa Spira of Room Escape Artist:
David Kwong's Enigmatist [Review] - Room Escape ArtistA Gold Bug Location: New York City Date Attended: January 12, 2019 Duration: 120 minutes Price: $95 / $125 / $150 per…roomescapeartist.comSeven Forces - The Summons [Review] - Room Escape ArtistA wonderful Masonic secret. Location: Cincinnati, Ohio Date Played: December 29, 2018 Team size: 4-6; we recommend 4-5…roomescapeartist.com
STORIES
From NoProscenium.com and our Twitter feed:
Getting The Gang Back Together: “Welcome Back, Woodchucks” Kicks Off In LA (Q&A)Shinbone Theatre Company’s Leland Frankel gives us insight into the new immersive-interactive shownoproscenium.comEnter an Escape Room in Reverse in Baltimore with ‘Time Travel Tours’ (Q&A)Magician, historian, and storyteller David London tells us a bit about this mysterious new experiencenoproscenium.comExperience ‘Mindfultainment’ with ‘The Eureka Room’ (Q&A)Mike Stefanik tells us about the immersive art installation in Austinnoproscenium.comBegin Your ‘Katabasis’ with fourlarks (Q&A)fourlarks’ Getty Villa processional is back from the underworldnoproscenium.comThere's a lot of buzz around "immersive" experiences in art, theater and entertainment. But is it…From escape rooms to Meow Wolf's debut in Denver next year, from Natura Obscura, running through April at MOA in…coloradosun.comRSC, Almeida and Punchdrunk participate in government-funded immersive entertainment project |…The £18 million project aims to develop new immersive technologies such as virtual reality for audienceswww.whatsonstage.comInteractivity and Immersion and Storytelling. - Theme Park ConceptsThere has been a lot of talk about Evermore in the theme park community as of late. For those that aren't aware it's a…www.themeparkconcepts.comMeow Wolf: Inside the Insane Psych Art Collective Taking Over the WorldKate Russell/meowwolf.com A roomful of strangers are milling around the kitchen of an austere Victorian home when the…www.rollingstone.comEight years after Sleep No More hit New York, theatre is still immersed in the site-specific trend…We're barely into the final year of the 2010s, a decade of fundamental change in theatre in North America, from…www.thestar.comDreamscape Immersive is bringing VR to the massesThe company's new installation in a Los Angeles shopping center lets audiences take a trip to an ancient temple or the…www.theverge.com'Vestige' Reveals How VR Will Revolutionize Documentary StorytellingOver the past five years, much has been written about VR's capacity as a storytelling medium -- but few experiences…www.forbes.com
From David & Lisa Spira of Room Escape Artist:
“Following the tragedy in Poland earlier this month, we’ll be including a safety evaluation to our reviews, starting in 2019. Here are our standards for escape room safety. We encourage other reviewers to do the same and for players to update us when visiting a game we reviewed previously.”
From Haley E.R. Cooper of Strange Bird Immersive:
“To be truly immersive, puzzles and props need to go beyond ‘on-theme’ and follow a human logic.”
From Laura E. Hall of Timberview Productions:
“There are a LOT of escape rooms in television shows, so I’m watching each one and writing about it from the POV of an escape room game and puzzle designer.”
“ A great Twitter thread of resources for architecture studies that can benefit game designers (and anyone in experience design):”
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