The solo creator of ‘We Should Meet in Air’ and ‘One Bad Day’ on what makes immersive click for her — Poet and performer Steph Kamei has carved out a unique niche in the immersive scene these past few years. Starting with We Should Meet In Air, a deeply personal piece where Kamei embodied her idol, the poet Sylvia Plath in a one-on-one phone call at a pivotal moment in both…

Not a review, but a memoir of one day at La Jolla Playhouse’s 2023 Without Walls Festival. — Before we get into it, I need to cop to the fact that we’re doing a bit of work with the La Jolla Playhouse’s Without Walls team behind the scenes these days. Because of that I took myself OFF the review beat for this year’s WOW Festival, an event I’ve…

With a deadline of April 30th, there’s still time to apply — For the second year in a row the Black Immersive Creators Grant is set to change the creative fate of a maker somewhere in the United States. We’ve talked about the grant before here on No Proscenium, but with the deadline looming we wanted to check back in with the…

‘The Hotel Who: A Love Story in Los Angeles’ gets the choreography right, but overloads the show to create an overlong night. — Sometimes too much is too much and sometimes it’s not enough. Somehow, in the case of The Hotel Who: A Love Story, both happen at once. Before we get to what’s broken, let’s talk about what actually works. Because if this was a complete disaster it wouldn’t be so frustrating.

The director of We Build Houses Here draws insightful parallels between drag and immersive — San Francisco’s Detour is a devised dance theatre ensemble whose work in performance and on film “centers the prismatic experiences of queers & people of color.” The company, led co-directors Eric Garcia and Kat Gorospe Cole, is set to launch the highly anticipated We Build Houses Here, an immersive theatrical…

Live Action Attractions’ founder brings the fun to LA’s immersive creative scene — Brett Jackson has long been on NoPro’s radar, first for his work with Two Bit Circus in the Before Times and then for whipping up one of the High Pandemic’s more fun diversions in the form of Bowling Night under his Live Action Attractions shingle. An immersive artist and designer…

La Jolla Playhouse’s now Annual celebration of performing arts in non-traditional spaces is set for their best year yet in San Diego. Plus: it’s FREE. — (Disclosure: La Jolla Playhouse, producers of the Without Walls Festival, arranged for accommodations for the writer.) The first Without Walls Festival to be produced by the LA Jolla Playhouse on a new annual timeline, the 2023 edition (April 27–30th) is bringing one of the most dynamic immersive & interactive line-ups…

The immersive activations, XR performances, and related sessions that have NoPro wishing we were all in Austin next week. — Every year we get at least a little tinge of FOMO — that’s Fear of Missing Out for those of you lucky enough to have never be so afflicted — for South By Southwest in Austin, and not just because there’s Torchy’s Tacos and Shiner Bocks in ready supply. IT’S…

Meta’s title bout for VR is coming. The Quest Store isn’t ready. (Editorial) — In a few days Creed III will hit movie theaters. Early word is that it’s a triumph, an “anime-inspired knockout” first feature from star turned director Michael B. Jordan that finds him squaring off against Jonathan Majors in the next chapter of the decades-long boxing saga. If you’re one of…