Immersive Is An Unstoppable Force (9 Listings)
This week we are in NYC, Philadelphia, Miami, Denver, Seattle, Los Angeles, Québec, and London. Ten Listings.
2025 #16
We've got ten listings this week but as always: check Everything Immersive because 27 new listings came in this week and you can see all of the latest on the site right here.
What you'll find here includes new work from LA favorites Capital W, the return of a NoPro favorite in NYC, and Miami's Juggerknot putting together an intensive workshop in June.
The LA Immersive Invitational Is Here!
As I write this the eight teams of the LA Immersive Invitational are hard at work devising the experiences that will be performed tomorrow. Last night they learned the theme of this year's event: MUSIC.
Each team has been given a music genre to base their work on, and we're very eager to see what they spin up out of folk, rock, hip hop, classical, showtunes, pop, jazz, and electronica. Tonight they'll learn the frame: and keep an eye on the NoPro feeds for updates from the scene this evening.
The LA Immersive Invitational Showcase is TOMORROW May 4th at the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s The Village at Ed Gould Plaza. Half of every ticket goes to support the LA LGBT Center, the largest LGBT service org in the WORLD.
It's also your ONLY chance to catch brand new work from Last Call Theatre, Cherry Poppins, The Queen's Fools, Spy Brunch, Spies Among Us, Spectacular Disaster Factor, and more including the return to LA of creators Keight Leighn and Jon Pedigo.
Tickets are on sale now, and you will kick yourself if you miss this event which is ALWAYS a good time.
I Can't Think Of Anything Clever To Do With Ten
This week we are in NYC, Philadelphia, Miami, Denver, Seattle, Los Angeles, Québec, and London.
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IN THIS ISSUE
- ON THE SITE & PODCAST
- SPOTLIGHT: NYC
- SPOTLIGHT: PHILADELPHIA
- SPOTLIGHT: MIAMI
- SPOTLIGHT: DENVER
- SPOTLIGHT: SEATTLE
- SPOTLIGHT: LOS ANGELES
- SPOTLIGHT: QUÉBEC
- SPOTLIGHT: LONDON
ON THE SITE & PODCAST
The Site
- This week on the Rundow we’ve got a review of the highly anticipated The Death of Rasputin in NYC, which has just extended through the end of May on Governor’s Island. We also revisit the anarchic Burnout Paradise, recently seen at the Without Walls Festival on the UC San Diego campus. Plus: One-Eighth Theater’s Class Dismissed in NYC.
- Spies Among Us’ director Prescott Gadd answers the questions in this week's NOW PLAYING, which puts the spotlight on the adventure that runs on weekends in DTLA. You can also catch the Spies' at this weekend's Invitational!
The Podcast
- Jon Pedigo is known to the NoPro universe as one of the creators of Bar of Dreams, which has charmed audiences on both the East and West Coast and to attendees of the 2022 Los Angeles Immersive Invitational as part of the team that created the brilliant Well, Well, Well that year.
Well, Jon will be back this weekend at the LA Immersive Invitational, teaming up with Karlie LeClare and Keight Leighn of Dream Logik (Snow Fridge), and joins us on the show this week to talk about Quonk, his project to create a sustainable venue to introduce immersive theatre to more audiences starting with Quonkhampton in Northampton, Mass.
The Patreon Report
Well: the number is going the wrong way. So if you can, please become a Patreon backer.
I know things are tight for everyone, but if HALF the readership of the newsletter became backers we'd blow past our goals and could start making something REAL. And by "backers" I mean $5 a month.
The sustaining backers of No Proscenium are:
Sydney Guillory, Lonnie Hanzon, Jerome Joseph Gentes, Tome Wilson, Ryan, Erin Reilly, Chris Wollman, Samantha Davison, Jay Bushman, Cameo Wood, Daryle, Lekker Lecool, Elaine, After Hours Theatre Company, The Ministry of Peculiarities, Kurt Collins, Anonymous, and Yan Budman.
SPOTLIGHT: NEW YORK
Mercer Labs, Museum of Art and Technology, a pioneering cultural institution where art and technology converge, unveils Maestros and the Machines, an exhibition debuting April 24, 2025, that challenges the very essence of art and its relationship to time. In this groundbreaking exploration, Maestros and the Machines pushes boundaries, inviting visitors to imagine what the great maestros of the past — from Mozart and Da Vinci to Hokusai and more — would have created if they had access to modern technology. Maestros and the Machines is a living, breathing dialogue between past and future, reimagining what art can be in a world where technology is a tool to the creative process.
art, projection; all ages, Manhattan, $52, through Oct. 7
A NoPro Favorite!
Julia Masli’s award-winning, solo show HA HA HA HA HA HA HA (New York Times Top Pick of the Year) will come to The Public after several critically acclaimed runs at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, New York’s Soho Playhouse, Melbourne International Comedy Festival, London’s Soho Theatre, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
A completely different show every night, HA HA HA HA HA HA HA is a production like no other, improvised heavily based on audience participation.
comedy, clowning; all ages, Manhattan, $54, May 30 - June 22
SPOTLIGHT: PHILADELPHIA
Space Opera is an innovative and radical combination of tabletop roleplaying games, democratic organizing practice, and theatrical spectacle, testing your very ability to work together in order to thwart existential consequences. Planets revolt, wonders appear, governments crumble, and you roll the dice. The fate of the universe hangs in the balance!
Tell an ongoing, epic story over the couse of three play weekends, with play sessions on 6/14, 6/21, and 6/28. You pick your level of engagement - be a core part of the storytelling for all three days, drop in for one session, or swing by to observe.
Space Opera features an original tabletop roleplaying game system designed to support a room of 40-50 people playing together at one time with the support of two gamemasters, theatrical designers, and performers who also facilitate group play. Over the course of play you'll zoom in and out from exploring the life of an individual trying to make their way through the cosmos to deciding the actions of an entire civilization, all while watching professional theater artists bring the world to life around you.
game, participatory; 16+, PWYC, June 14 - June 28
SPOTLIGHT: MIAMI
The Miami Immersive Intensive (MII) is a four-day convening co-produced by Juggerknot Theatre Company and Live Arts Miami. The program is designed to train local and national artists in the tools, language, and methodology of immersive and site-specific experiences while fostering collaboration with industry leaders both nationally and internationally.
Over the course of the Intensive, we’ll be hosting workshops, panels, roundtables, and curated outings that reimagine how stories are told. Stay tuned for pre-sale registration. Space is limited.
Presented by Juggerknot Theatre and Live Arts Miami.
workshops; all ages, $350-395, June 26 - 29
SPOTLIGHT: DENVER
Will you heed the call and listen to the stories of Auraria?
The area that we know today as Auraria has long been a place of gathering in Denver. The flowing and convergence of two rivers on its land has always made it fertile ground for Coloradan people, families, and communities. Like the water of the rivers, the stories of the people inhabiting Auraria have flowed throughout the land since time immemorial.
As the rivers today threaten to dry up, will people continue to gather and find belonging in Auraria? The stories must flow for us to understand its history and our connections to this magical place.
Join us to understand the past patterns of belonging and displacement on this land and foster your own story of connection and community by understanding what it means to call a place home.
We welcome you to join us as a listener to, and an author of, this parable.
audio; 18+, $6, May 4 - 11
Somebody People & HOLDTIGHT present Wild Oscillation, where a tasting menu is woven throughout an immersive performance.
A multi-course tasting menu woven throughout a multidisciplinary immersive performance where you'll explore the oscillation between wildness, wilderness, and order. You can expect a thoughtful menu of plant-based food, paired beverages (n/a available), live music, dance, storytelling, and live painting. Many wild surprises in store!
dance, diner; 18, $150, May 19
SPOTLIGHT: SEATTLE
"Something is wrong in the office. The taste of the coffee. The buzz of the fluorescents. Ever since we met, something has been undeniably… off. And how has nobody noticed that we look exactly the same?"
Based on Dostoyevsky's psychological thriller, step into the world of THE DOUBLE — a dimly-lit office, abandoned after a mysterious incident. How you watch is up to you: sit at a desk, walk the office floor, rummage through bankers boxes and kitchen cabinets. All the while, fragmentary interviews play off screens around you, while live action swirls behind conference room glass, peeling back the story of what took place.
The newest world premiere from Witness. Space extremely limited.
dance, drama, site-specific; 13+, $60-67, June 27 - July 13
SPOTLIGHT: LOS ANGELES
Who shaped me that I cannot see?
Capital W announces an all new workshop production: The Wheel.
The Wheel is a healing ritual for reaching back into your lineage and digging up the bones that weren’t buried right. The Wheel is an immersive remix of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel (yes, really), the classic Hungarian play Liliom, and our own family histories. The Wheel is outdoor, ritual theatre, round a fire.
Drawing on the age-old human need to gather in a circle and share stories, The Wheel is more than just an unconventional retelling of Billy Bigelow and Julie Jordan: it is a community ritual, in which the audience will take on roles, tend the fire, and sing together. We will candidly explore the show’s themes of domestic violence and intergenerational pain, while offering hope and a space of healing. Each performance will ask the question: “How has my family story shaped me — and can I break the cycles I’ve inherited?”
workshop production, immersive; 13+, Chatsworth, $60, May 10 & 11
SPOTLIGHT: QUÉBEC
En français
Thanks for Being Here is an ode to the audience. Because without an audience, there is no theatre. The fact that you are now reading this text, perhaps buying a ticket (or already have!), and will soon spend an hour in a room full of strangers, not knowing what’s to come – we find that deeply hopeful. And that is worth celebrating.
On stage: us. In the audience: you. We will watch. Ourselves, but especially each other, as a group. We’ll switch roles. Maybe you’ll see yourself, as part of the audience, or even as a character. Without you, there would be no performance. So thank you for being here.
In a game of video and perspective, Thanks for Being Here constantly puts you off balance. But don’t worry — you don’t have to do anything. Because Ontroerend Goed has been making interactive theatre for over 20 years for people who don’t particularly like interactive theatre. And we’ll take your expectations into account. Both before and after. Promise.
in French, interactive; 13+, C$35, May 31 - June 2
SPOTLIGHT: LONDON
Live hybrid performance festival where artists and creative technologists explore embodiment, touch, and presence—through movement, XR, MR, AI and machine learning. This is the BODY, re-coded. With live hybrid shows, immersive installations, expert-led panels, artist workshops, and an Innovation Lab Day focused on AI in the arts, OOTFest25 is a space for experimentation, dialogue, and evolution.
Join us in reshaping the future of performance—both in Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, London, or from anywhere in the world through our multi-camera, interactive livestream.
dance, immersive, XR; 13+, Hammersmith, £8 - £105, June 5 - 8
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