Moving from Turkey Day 🦃 into the holiday season 🎅
Oh gosh, it’s another double issue of EITW. There’s tons going on, like a new documentary from Third Rail Project and the Immersive 101 workshop in Los Angeles; plus lots of other announcements, so just scroll on down…
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THIS WEEK ON THE PODCAST
Sean T. Cawelti, Chelsea Sutton, and Lori Meeker of LA’s Rogue Artists Ensemble stop in to talk about Kaidan Project: Walls Grow Thin. We dig into the long gestation process, and lessons learned from the Rogue’s first foray into large-scale immersive work.
Plus: Rolfe Kent of The Unmarked Door stops by to talk about their first show, ‘The Heart of Winter’ which debuts in Culver City this month.
SHOWS, EVENTS, & EXPERIENCES (NEWSWIRE)
Baltimore: What can museums learn from immersive theater?
Boston: The Star
Chicago: Southern Gothic
Denver: The House of Embers
LA: BOUQUET; Escape Jam (Workshop); Immersive 101; The Heart of Winter
London: Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire (The Void)
Nashville: Winter Wonderettes
NYC: Behind the City; Byerley High School Holiday Reunion; Sea of Light; The Blind Date Project; Tribeca Virtual Arcade at Cinepolis Chelsea; Illuminati Ball: Brooklyn; Sweet Shoppe
Portland, Oregon: Psychic Utopia; Dreams of Oz
Providence: King Lear
San Diego: Beachtown
SF: Help Find Daisy; In Event of Moon Disaster
Toronto: Eve of St. George
REVIEWS
Virtual Reality:
The World In Your Head: ‘Dispatch’ Brings A Neo-Noir Tale To VR | No Proscenium
Here Be Dragons recruits Silicon Valley’s Martin Starr for an episodic thriller
DC:
Review: ‘Christmas at the Old Bull & Bush’ at Metro Stage | DC Metro Theatre Arts
Los Angeles:
Chekhov’s Three Sisters: Enough Intensity to Shake Up the Audience | City Watch
Bite-sized Immersive: Infinitely Dinner Society’s ‘Oyster Shooters’ (A NoPro Adventure) | No Proscenium
Hollywood’s Infinitely Dinner Society strikes again
‘The Pyramid’ Lets You Live Out Your ‘Legends of the Hidden Temple’ Dreams (A NoPro Escape)| No Proscenium
Escape Room LA and John Hennessy’s delightful twist on escaping the tomb
Mysterious Street Performances That Lead to Midnight Snacks Are Popping Up Around L.A. | LA Weekly
London:
Your correspondent goes Inside Pussy Riot — and gets a wake up call | The Art Newspaper
Inside Pussy Riot, Saatchi Gallery review — an immersive misfire | The Arts Desk
Promenade piece makes hyperactive theatrical weather of some important themes
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Pussy Riot at the Saatchi Gallery: has the commodification of protest gone too far? | The Calvert Journal
The Never-Ending Story of ‘Neverwhere’ | City Beat
Night at the Bombay Roxy, Dishoom Kensington, review | Independent
New York City:
SECRET SUPPER: THE MUSICAL Takes A Meta Look At Attending Social Events | Broadway World
Learn how to live from The Dead 1904 | Metro New York
Sailing on Silly Seas With ‘The Pirates of Penzance’ | New York Times
Oxford, UK:
Mountains review — ‘uncomfortable and immersive’ | Cherwell
STORIES
‘Between Yourself and Me’ Film| Third Rail Projects
A look inside the flourishing, intimate world of experiential performance and immersive theater, through the creative process of one of the form’s top innovators
Room Escape Lovers 2017 Holiday Buyer’s Guide | Room Escape Artist
12 Influential Immersive Environments Implemented in the Last 12 Months | SEGD
Pixar’s VR Debut Takes You Into The Stunning World of ‘Coco’ | VR Scout
Giving Escape Room Stories Room to Breathe through Theater | ARGnet
UTA Emotional Robotics Lab Looks at Human-Robot Bonds | Dallas Innovates
Thoughts following the REA Exclusive Event — Escape, Immerse, Explore: NYC 2017 | Room Escape Artist
HaptX promises to make your virtual hands feel like real ones | Engadget
Who are the most gifted programmers/experience creators in the world? | Twitter
Alternative in-flight entertainment | Arts Professional
An immersive theatre performance lasted 13 hours — the time it took to fly from Heathrow to New York via Iceland. Kate Hargreaves tells the story.
New ‘Ride and Realm’ technology from Holovis transforms theme parks into a choose-your-own-adventure | Inside the Magic
Desert Bus comes to VR at long last | Polygon
Immersive theatre on a silver platter | The Hindu
“Single Use” In Escape Rooms [Design Tips] | Room Escape Artist
Bombay mix: Shamil Thakrar of ‘Dishoom’ interview | Property Week
The actors — and the entire audience — will be naked during an NYC play this weekend | Time Out New York
Google Launches Social Awareness VR Initiative ‘Daydream Impact’ | VR Scout
HTC Vive X Accelerator Invests in 26 More AR/VR Startups | VR Scout
For Sit & Spin’s fall Cahn show, anything is FAIR GAME | North by Northwestern
THE BIZ
Los Angeles: Immersive 101 | Thymele Arts/Theatre Asylum
San Francisco: Game Masters Needed for Escape Room Game | Head Games
Santa Fe: Director of Exhibition Narrative | Meow Wolf
Toronto: Escape Games Props & Puzzle Manager | Secret City Adventures
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