Aura CEO Don DeClaire (Tim McGeever) is captured in silhouette during the product launch keynote. Photo by Handerson Gomes,. Courtesy of Bricolage Production Company.

What to see and what we want to see this week!

There is so much going on right now, which our massive newsletters can attest to.

One of the best ways to keep up, and get a glimpse Inside Immersive, is to follow our Instagram feed, where pretty much every day for the rest of the month we’ve got a different company taking over the feed to share what they’ve got cooking for Spooky Season.

And now: our picks for the week of Oct. 24th through October 30th, 2019!

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New York City

Pick of the Week: Her Long Black Hair

A friend’s trip to NYC reminded me, we don’t talk about Her Long Black Hair enough anymore. This self-guided podplay in Central Park has been available for the better part of a decade now, and it remains one of my top recommendations for immersive explorers of the city. It’s also free. And October in the city is beautiful, so you don’t really have any excuses if you haven’t run out and done it yet. — Noah Nelson, publisher

Pittsburgh

Pick of the Week: Project Amelia

In the ongoing struggle between audience agency and scripted performance, Project Amelia manages to strike just the right balance. Here fortune does actually favor the bold, and both individual decisions and our collective decisions do shape the overall narrative. — Glenn Ricci, from his review

Atlanta

Pick of the Week: Frankenstein’s Funeral

[The] most charming aspect of the play lies in all the unique silhouettes and textures, sleight of hand and magic tricks, that added a significant amount of meaning to every interactive detail and prop, moving the story forward. — April Arrglington, from her review

Chicago

Pick Of The Week: The Silence In Harrow House

With the feeling of wandering a maze without an exit, I was trapped with puppet creatures of Harrow House witnessing the fate that befell them. Every turn of the corner brought suspense and surprise where I loved every minute of exploration. A perfect marriage of performance and environment. — Patrick McLean

Aurora, CO

Most Anticipated: Cutting Room Floor

Here’s one we wish we could get to from LA. Control Group’s Cutting Room Floor is an “avant haunt” in the historic Aurora Fox Arts Center that blends a meta narrative with dance theatre, aiming to evoke the stories that lay within the walls of the building. — Noah Nelson, publisher

San Francisco

Pick of the Week: The Gravermind Estate

I had so much fun checking out The Gravermind Estate over the weekend! It sounds like their Halloween show is going to be creepy and crawly, but it’s already sold out! If you’ve got tickets, boy am I jealous! If not, you should still head over and see it before it closes. Go play with the wild inhabitants of the Gravemind Estate and who knows, maybe you’ll even learn a thing or two! — Briana Roecks, NoPro Social Media correspondent

Los Angeles

Pick of the Week: The Recital

The Recital is a stunning, powerful blend of immersive and traditional theater that blurs the lines of what you expect from either. It’s comedic, it’s rich in pathos and it has snacks. Go see it before its run ends. — Anthony Robinson, No Pro

Spooky Pick of the Week: The Shadow Space

I loved how The Shadow Space took the traditional idea of a haunt of turned it upside down. You become the ghost in this instance, haunting some living folks, and it let me live out my pot-stirring ghost fantasy. It was great, had some wonderful immersive elements, a wonderful mystery, and really funny, too! — Jeff Heimbuch, Horrorbuzz (read his review)

Patron Most Anticipated: The Recital

Kickass cast, awesome concept, doesn’t appear to be either sexy or haunted, so it stands out in October. — Andy Crocker

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