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What a week. The Magic Leap One Creator Edition finally dropped, for a cool $2,295, to mixed reviews. Our friends over at Strange Bird Immersive reported back on their observations from attending the Room Escape Conference. And the world got a peek at some interesting statistics on the logistics behind a Secret Cinema show. Plus, David and Lisa over at Room Escape Artist announced that they will be not only giving an Adventure Design Group talk in San Francisco on the 20th, but they’re also hosting a shindig in LA on the 23rd!
Here at NoPro: we interviewed Stephanie and Nathan of Firelight Collective about bringing their show Stars in the Night from LA to NYC. We also compiled a non-comprehensive list of 25 Immersive Companies and Creators to Watch in NYC. NoPro also dropped in on two immersive experiences in LA: one filled with dirty puppets and gambling, and the other a 90s-soaked pop-up shop, as well as the Assassination of Edgar Allen Poe, currently running at the historic Pico House in Los Angeles. And we just announced our NoPro Night Out at a showing of Cafe Play in NYC; join us for a talkback with the creators on September 30th!
And Noah also sat down with the wonderful Jeff Wirth of Interactive Playlab for the NoPro podcast. (Oh, and if you manage all your podcasts through Spotify, you can now find us there, too.)
More on all that… below.
ON THE PODCAST THIS WEEK
Jeff Wirth has been a lot of things in his life: university professor, computer programmer, ballroom dancer, and clown. These days he’s the wandering sage of interactive performance, leading the Interactive PlayLab which is best known for the Deep Dive think tank that created work that was both intimate and large scale at the same time.
Wirth has been crisscrossing America leading workshops in interactive acting techniques and design, and after a recent stop in Los Angeles he sat down with our own Noah Nelson for a philosophical deep dive of their own.
Also this week: we kick things off with an impromptu field report from The InkHole, the latest promotional pop-up from the Giant Spoon/Mycotoo team, which brings the curious into the fabulously felt world of The Happytime Murders.
SAVE THE DATE, LA!
SAVE THE DATE, NYC!
FROM THE WIRE: SHOWS, EVENTS, & EXPERIENCES
Chicago: The Walls of Harrow House; Masque Macabre
Denver: Broken Bone Bathtub
Gainesville, FL: Halloween Moon Rising
Greenville, SC: Shakespearean Lovers Lawn Game Tournament; or much about doing nothing
Kingston, Ontario: Beta’s Baby
LA: #BEDRUMPLAI; Death and Coffee (Remount); Nicodemus: Demon of Evanishment; Spatial Reality: Artists Explore the Future of XR
Las Vegas: Ghostbusters: Dimension
London: Gunpowder Plot
NYC: Stars in the Night; Escape From Marseilles; The Mile-Long Opera; Romeo & Juliet; Cafe Play With NoPro Night Out/Talkback; The Bloody Deed of 1957; Time Of Your Life: An 80s Prom Escape Room; This Is A Distraction; chronicles: Chapter I; Advanced School of Wizardry Cocktail Hour; Pumpkin Pie: One-on-Ones; Canaries Del Isla
Oklahoma City, OK: BEYOND
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REVIEWS
Both our own, and from around the web!
On ‘The Assassination of Edgar Allan Poe’ (Review)LA’s Downtown Repertory Theatre Company takes over the historic Pico House for a vision of the poet’s last breathsnoproscenium.comBoxaroo - Conundrum Museum [Review] - Room Escape ArtistThe best security in escape rooms! Location: Boston, MA Date Played: July 1, 2018 Team size: 4-10; we recommend 4-8…roomescapeartist.comSouthern Gothic (Windy City Playhouse, Chicago) - theaterreviewsfrommyseat.comThe program informs you that "You're Invited" to the birthday celebration of Mrs. Suzanne Wellington on June 30, 1961…www.theaterreviewsfrommyseat.comImmersive £¥€$ (LIES) is like a bewildering Monopoly on crackCLOSE VIEW MAP You know those board games that families play at Christmas with over-elaborate rules? That's exactly…www.standard.co.uk
STORIES
From our Twitter feed, our friends at Room Escape Artist, and the Everything Immersive community
25 Immersive Creators and Companies to Watch in NYCFrom dance-theatre LARPs to site-specific dinner parties to interactive story roomsnoproscenium.comEXCLUSIVE: LA’s Firelight Collective to Stage ‘Stars in the Night’ in NYC (Q&A)We speak to Co-Artistic Directors Stephanie Feury and Nathan Keyes about bringing their work to the Big Applenoproscenium.comThe InkHole Hits LA: Go Inside ‘The HappyTime Murders’ World of Forbidden FeltWe go there because they go there. Don’t forget the syrup. (A NoPro Adventure)noproscenium.com‘Rewind to the 90s’ and Relive Part of Your ChildhoodWe Double Dare you to time travel this weekend in LAnoproscenium.comHorror Escape Rooms & Fear [Meme] - Room Escape ArtistWe may have forgotten to tell a friend that we were playing a horror game. I've known the guy for most of my life and…roomescapeartist.comImmersive LA show, Theatre Macabre, to take you out of your comfort zone - Nerd ReactorDarren Lynn Bousman ( Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV) and his team set out to create an immersive theatre experience that…nerdreactor.comRoom Escape Conference: Strange Bird's TakeawaysMy co-founder Cameron and I debated for too long whether we should attend Transworld's Room Escape Conference…strangebirdimmersive.comDisney Animation's First VR Project 'Cycles' Debuts Next Month - VRScoutShare TweetThe VR short will take us beyond life as we know it. After nearly a decade of animated short films, this…vrscout.comLufthansa debuts prototype in-flight VR experienceLufthansa passengers flying from Frankfurt to Dubai on flight LH630 were the first to experience the airline's new…www.techradar.comThe Magic Leap One mixed reality headset is shipping today for $2,295The Magic Leap One Creator Edition, the first mixed reality headset from startup Magic Leap, is shipping today in…www.theverge.comI tried Magic Leap and saw a flawed glimpse of mixed reality's amazing potentialWhen you write about augmented reality headsets, you're supposed to start by describing something impossible - like a…www.theverge.comMagic Leap's first headset isn't for you, but it may show you the futureA doorway opens in the wall. Beyond it, there's a gleaming city. A robot flies through, blasting missiles at me. My…www.cnet.comWhat it's like to build the magical worlds of Secret CinemaFilm is an inherently magical thing. Sure, you can open up Netflix and have thousands of movies to watch at the click…www.standard.co.ukTTSP #48: Ricky Brigante, Inside the Magic and Pseudonym Productions - Tomorrow SocietyPodcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed It's a boom time for podcasting, which has evolved into big business. A…tomorrowsociety.com
THE BIZ
LA: IMMERSIVE (DTLA Film Festival)The DTLA Film Festival highlights the immersive reimagining of traditional cinemanoproscenium.comA Global Challenge to Create an Immersive Dinner Party with Frankenstein + AIOver the course of five days (October 23rd to October 27th) teams from around the world will work to design an…medium.comImmerse Your Theatrical Skill Into Immersive Technology At TOMtech Next MonthWhether you're talking about virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) or something in between down the spectrum…www.vrfocus.com
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