The circus is coming to town! The circus is coming to town!
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Hey folks! It’s been a while week, hasn’t it? We finally got some more details around micro-amusement park Two Bit Circus’ imminent opening in Los Angeles. Our friends over at Whisperlodge made their Netflix debut. And the fine folks over at Meow Wolf announced both their first dark ride in Denver and launched their DIY fund.
Here at NoPro, we reviewed a bunch of shows in and around Los Angeles as well, spoke to one of the creators behind the magic and puzzling communal experience 49 Boxes, and hit an all time-high with the number of experiences on our NYC Now Playing page: 58!
Plus, our friends at LEIA have a new crowdsourcing effort around event insurance, looking to demystify the process for immersive creators and producers in LA and beyond.
More on all this… below!
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ON THE PODCAST THIS WEEK
The 49 Boxes is a singular puzzle based storytelling event, the latest incarnation of which focuses on the life of Floyd G. Thayer — one of the most famed illusion creators of all time.
Host Noah Nelson sits down with Michael Borys, the information and story architect of The 49 Boxes to talk about the origins of the show and his career as an untraditional storyteller.
Look for announcements about the next set of experiences from The 49 Boxes this week.
FROM THE WIRE: SHOWS, EVENTS, & EXPERIENCES
Calgary: The Intuition Project
NYC: 29 Rooms; The Hidden Ones; Peter Pan; 81818 Towards Infinity; Wonder World; Liminal Salon: Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?; Show Up, Kids!; Where Thoughts Go; Inside the Wild Heart; Nightfall; Invisible Wind 8
Pawtucket, RI: UNDERLAND: A Twisted Haunted Experience
Seattle: The Witching Hour
SF: Terror Vault
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Toronto: Damn Fine Party
REVIEWS
Our own, from our friends at Room Escape Artist, and from around the web!
Finding Fun At An Awkward Wake: “Captivated Chapter 2: Victoria” (The NoPro Review)They Played Productions takes us deeper into the story, by letting us loose in their sandboxnoproscenium.comVictorian Vampires Strike In ‘Remember Me: Elizabeth’ (Review)The second theatrical installment from LA’s ‘The Count’s Den’ offers up an interactive party circa 1885noproscenium.comUnlikely Love Takes Flight In ‘The Sideshow’ (The NoPro Review)The debut show from LA’s CoAct Productions assembles a cast destined for the spotlight.noproscenium.comBoda Borg Boston Revisited - Potions - Room Escape ArtistAfter two and a half years we finally returned to Boda Borg Boston... and there were some new games. What's The Same…roomescapeartist.com13th Hour Escape Rooms - The Dungeon [Review] - Room Escape ArtistThe stairway to hell. Location: Wharton, NJ Date Played: July 16, 2018 Team size: 4-6; we recommend 4-5 Duration: 60…roomescapeartist.com5 Wits Foxboro, MA - Espionage [Review] - Room Escape Artist"Your mission, should you choose to accept it..." Location: Foxboro, MA Date Played: July 15, 2018 Team size: 2-15; we…roomescapeartist.com
STORIES
From our Twitter feed, our friends at Room Escape Artist, and the Everything Immersive community
Oh Happy Day: The Two Bit Circus Is Coming To TownThe long planned micro-amusement park is set to open its doors in LA next monthnoproscenium.com13 Rules for Escape Room Puzzle Design - the CodexThe following rules only cover how to design puzzles. I am not covering how to integrate a puzzle smoothly into a game…thecodex.caMeow Wolf's Kaleidoscape at Elitch Gardens | Meow WolfMeow Wolf will be partnering with Elitch Gardens Theme & Water Park, our new neighbor near Meow Wolf Denver, to bring…meowwolf.comCan the Escape Room Craze Reach Escape Velocity?Mom-and-pops are struggling in a saturated industrymedium.comVoices of VR PodcastGabo Arora's ZIKR: A Sufi Revival premiered at Sundance this year. It's a 360-degree video capture of a number of…voicesofvr.comTips For Winning Escape RoomsEscape rooms, where a group works together to free themselves from a room by solving puzzles and riddles, have become…www.theonion.comAn Avant-Garde Theater Artist Gets Her DueMaría Irene Fornés never had a play that opened on Broadway. Few of her 40 full-length works are regularly presented on…www.nytimes.comHaving a good time, Old Sport?This summer, the Guild of Misrule's 'The Great Gatsby' has become the longest running immersive production in the UK…www.londoncalling.comDowntown LA's Massive New Immersive VR Theme Park Might Just Blow Your MindYou're standing on a raft, drifting through a swamp with three of your best buds but this is no moonlit pleasure…www.laist.comHow Two Bit Circus is turning its 21st century carnival into one giant gameThrow out the term "amusement park," and it conjures up visions of roller coasters and rides and costumed characters in…www.theverge.comThe Reality Ecosystem: What AR/VR/XR needs to go bigAR/VR/XR are going to be big, but not everyone will win. Today's market is a collection of related point solutions to…techcrunch.comJessica Brillhart, Immersive Director, on VR and ARJessica Brillhart is the founder of Vrai Pictures. They're an independent immersive content studio. Before founding…blog.ycombinator.comAn Interview with Hirofumi Gomi: Japan's Haunted House Master | Tokyo CheapoWhen it comes to Japanese horror, Ring, Ju-On: The Grudge, and manga artists Junji Ito and Kazuo Umezu come to mind-to…tokyocheapo.comMickey The True Original Exhibition - Disney PartnersMickey: The True Original Exhibition celebrates 90 years of Mickey Mouse's influence on art and pop culture.partners.disney.com
THE BIZ
Meow Wolf's DIY Fund | Meow WolfFor the majority of our decade-long history, Meow Wolf lived on the fringes of Santa Fe in a series of small DIY…meowwolf.comsurvey SAYS: crowdsourcing insurance infoGetting productions insured is one of those necessary things that can be unnecessarily frustrating. The bad news is…www.leia.design
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