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Portrait of The Artist As A Dead Asshole — Ghost Road’s ‘Super Duper’ Haunts Los Angeles (REVIEW)

A theatre piece about an installation artist that melds the two to reveal a real (imaginary) bastard

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Review Rundown Special: Toronto Fringe Festival 2023

A special ALL TORONTO FRINGE version of our Review Rundown

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Review Rundown: Four Courses of Fun

Dinner in Vegas, robots in VR, fantasy in NYC, and a “stunningly personal” exhibit in New Jersey. (FOUR REVIEWS)

Installation

The Network (Capsule Review)

Hammer Projects: Chiharu Shiota

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Review Rundown: The One With Magic & Multiverses

Alternate selves are so hot right now. LA, NYC, Toronto, Denver, SF. (SEVEN REVIEWS)

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Stoking Vegas’ Immersive Flame: Lost Spirits Distillery (Review)

Immersive and unrestrained, Lost Spirits Distillery Las Vegas invites visitors on a journey of discovery for the senses.

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A Dream of New York: ‘Great Gotham Challenge’ Sends Players Across the City (REVIEW)

The 2023 iteration of the extravagant scavenger hunt captures the fantasy of an NYC adventure

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Life, Hacked: ‘No Save Points’ Turns One Artist’s Life Into A Game And Hands You The Controller…

Outside The March’s latest production in Toronto redefines ‘a play you can play’

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Review Rundown: The One With Gangsters & Death Traps

Playable theatre & installation art in LA plus a serial killer’s deadly game in London (THREE REVIEWS)

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‘The Medusa Report’ Is A Riveting Spy Hunt (Review)

Diorama’s latest puzzle box experience continues its thrilling Cold War mystery

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Review Rundown: The One Where Canada Puts Us All To Shame

Plus a unique memorial performance in NYC & the latest from Stepy Kamei (SIX REVIEWS)

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Review Rundown: The One With Ghost Ships, Foul Play, and a Sense of Home

Work hailing from Toronto, NYC, LA, and online! FOUR REVIEWS

Games

Fair Trade (Capsule Review)

[Original publication: No Proscenium, 5/9/23] It could have been a lunch hour. We were sitting in a park on the San Diego Bay. Spandexed runners blew by. The show was only an hour long, but there was no lunch. Instead, we had an existential investigation of fairness. Get

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Review Rundown: The One With Fair Trades, Mystery Boxes, and Drag Sanctuaries

Immersive dance theatre in a nightclub in SF, experiments in San Diego, an S-tier mystery box at home. (THREE REVIEWS)

Contemporary Art

Arsham Auto Motive (Capsule Review)

[Original publication: No Proscenium, 4/11/23] The Petersen Automotive Museum is one of the world’s largest automotive museums. Previous exhibitions include The Porsche Effect, a stunning feature of the most significant Porsche models ever built, and Bond in Motion, the first official U.S. installation of original vehicles

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Review Rundown: The One With Magic, Mystery, and Some Playful Mayhem

Reviews from NYC, SF, and what’s soon to be on your bookshelf. (SIX REVIEWS)

Augmented Reality

Tin Drum: Medusa (Capsule Review)

[Original publication: No Proscenium, 4/11/23] A dinner party. A conversation about “what architecture means if it’s free from the physical realities of shelter or boundary or whatever it is that it’s supposed to do.” In recounting this story to Fast Company, Todd Eckert described the inception

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Review Rundown: The One With Mushrooms and Love Spells

A different kind of mystery in LA, Sci-Fi explorations in Baltimore, plus immersive art in London. FOUR REVIEWS

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Who Is ‘The Hotel Who’ For? It’s A Mystery (The NoPro Review)

‘The Hotel Who: A Love Story in Los Angeles’ gets the choreography right, but overloads the show to create an overlong night.

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Review Rundown: The One That Goes Vroooom

An opportunity to ‘Change Your Mind’ in SF, Augmented Reality in NYC, and a trip to the Auto Museum in LA. (THREE REVIEWS)

Contemporary Art

Desert X 2023 Begets Apathy and Heartbreaking Magic (Review)

Coachella Valley hosts the biennial’s fourth U.S. exhibition

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Review Rundown: Of Plants, Planets, Platypuses, & Paralysis

Sci-Fi in London & NYC, Horror in Denver, and more. (FOUR REVIEWS)

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Review Rundown: The One With Pirates, Shipwrecks, and Playable Art

A legendary director stages opera in Boston with an immersive twist, ‘The Tempest’ storms LA, plus LARPing and dispatches from London. (SEVEN REVIEWS)

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Intercon U 2023 — A NoPro Diary

Our LARP correspondent reports back their experiences from this year’s convention

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Review Rundown: Of Hangovers & Hanging Rocks

Two in London, two in NYC and one online for this week’s Rundown. (Five Reviews)