Immersive Theatre

Alice Stanley Jr writes about three site-specific and interactive and/or immersive theatrical experiences.

Jacob Richman shares insight into his piece The (unfinished) Ballad of Adam and Elena Emery as a roving performance. 

Technology reflects and changes the ways in which we think.  We need to start telling more stories designed to accommodate our interactivity of the internet to grow with our audiences.

Chris Garza visits The Visit staged in rural Minnesota, and reflects on how immersive theater invites audiences complicity in a play about mob psychology, vengance, and greed.

Bertie Ferdman writes about the use of immersion in Roadskill and La Ruta, and how this trend in storytelling can help us create political theater that creates empathy and action.

W.M. Akers looks at how this immersive musical from Alex Timbers, David Byrne, Annie-B Parson and Fatboy Slim tells Imelda Marcos' story through disco, audience involvement, and theatrical hypnotism.

Jeffrey Mosser seeks the vast possibilities of immersive theatre when an audience is allowed to explore and discover.

Christopher White, of the Mugwumpin ensemble, dissects their process for subverting audience's expectations when entering a theatrical performance.