These same impulses have, to varying degrees, influenced the participatory trend of immersive theater.
It's a funkier, foodier take on immersive theater, said Peter Lettre, its co-creator.
While La Jolla Playhouse has dabbled in immersive theater before, for most of the year it puts on plays and musicals in a typical theater.
THEN SHE FELL The immersive theater company Third Rail's personal guided tour of Alice's Wonderland, in a former outpatient hospital in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
This is "immersive theater" taken to a whole new dark place, with disorienting floors, crashing walls and scenes of violence that literally leave one spattered.
This is moderately immersive theater, with audience members seated along the walls of the apartment and sometimes interacting with the performers.
Visitors, 100 at a time, are to enter in 15-minute intervals and encounter first a seven-screen "immersive theater" resembling a small club, complete with stools.
If the bodega across the street from you becomes a matcha bubble-tea shop/pop-up immersive theater and improv space, is it time to move?
(Rachel Saltz) ★ 'Then She Fell' Inspired by Lewis Carroll's "Alice" books, this transporting immersive theater work occupies a dreamscape where the judgments and classifications of the waking mind are suspended.
Colin Marsh is the executive director of the immersive theater company Punchdrunk, which stages performances in such unexpected places as an abandoned office block and the tunnels beneath Waterloo Station (punchdrunk.org.uk).uk
(Ken Jaworowski) Off Off Broadway ★ 'Then She Fell' Inspired by Lewis Carroll's "Alice" books, this transporting immersive theater work occupies a dreamscape where the judgments and classifications of the waking mind are suspended.
