A look at the ambitious overnight production at the historic Hotel Normandie — Who hasn’t daydreamed about playing sleuth in a classic whodunit? The kind where there are a half dozen or more suspects each with a motive, if not the means and opportunity, to off someone who — let’s face it — had it coming? The creators of The Hotel Who? are…

The Denver based music collective tackles The 5 — Audiences have been blown away for years now by the ecstatic performances of the 57-member avant-mystical maximalist performance collective known as itchy-0. …

The Bay Area designer shares the inspirations for his decades of work — Barron Scott Levkoff has been a fixture on the SF Bay Area art scene for three decades now, creating large scale theatrical events for revelers of across the region. Like many creators on the immersive, Levkoff’s work has popped up as part of corporate events for clients like Google as…

Brain Sanders’ JUNK celebrates 30 years in Philadelphia this year — Since 1992 choreographer and dancer Brian Sanders has challenged the idea of what a dance concert can be with his company JUNK. More precisely Brian Sanders’ JUNK, so you get the full effect of the company’s sense of humor. …

The latest from Cross Roads Escape Games in Anaheim is cursed, in a good way — It can be all too easy to forget that a great escape room can transport you as surely as prestige television, or a big budget film. After an hour or so inside The Weeping Witch, the latest from Cross Roads Escape Games in Anaheim, you’ll be hard-pressed to forget that…

The creator and choreographer behind the upcoming ‘Casting’ in LA answers our call — Choreographer Koryn Wicks first landed on our radar with her 2019 show I Love You So Much, Squeeze Me To Death, which used non-traditional staging to create a dance happening in and around its audience. …

Creators of buzzed about live performance driven XR experiences — One of the few silver linings of the High Pandemic were the wave of experiments that fused live-action immersive theatre with virtual reality tools. Amongst the most prolific of teams in this lane have been The Ferrymen Collective, a team of designers, engineers, and performers who have brought their experience…

The makers of SoCal’s most buzzed-about escape room answer the 5. — East of Los Angeles, in an unassuming strip mall just off of Route 66 one can find a portal to the strange: The Ministry of Peculiarities. In the brief time that the Ministry has been revealed to the public, the Ministry’s Hope End experience has developed the reputation for being…

The Creative Director of the team behind London’s “Hidden Figures WW2” answers The i5 — London’s Party Geek has been producing experiences that mix history, cocktails, and gaming for a few years now. Their current offering, Hidden Figures WW2, is a revival of their 2018 show which puts audiences in touch with real-life figures whose contribution to the war effort was overlooked by history, giving…