The No Proscenium Podcast

It's the penultimate episode of our deep dive into the 2017 Ducktales reboot. This time out we get ever closer to the final mysteries of season one, and learn more than we ever expected to learn about Mrs. Beakley. EPISODES DISCUSSED From the Casefiles of Agent 22 Who is Gizmoduck? The Other Bin of Scrooge McDuck Sky Pirates... in the Sky! Your assignment for next time: Finish Season One Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dragon Productions Theatre Company's Max Koknar, Ariel Aronica, and Jacob Vorperian join us to talk about All We Have To Fear: Party at the End of the World, their new theatre/game hybrid that uses Gather to recreate the experience of an immersive theatre space like the former Speakeasy in San Francisco, along with some tweaks to the system created by the Dragon to add a game layer to the proceedings. We dive in on the eve of the show's opening. For the curious amongst you: there's a handful of free tickets using the code NOPROFREE that are usable through the end of the month, and a $10 discount NOPRO once those free tickets are gone. PLUS: early impressions of the Oculus Quest 2. (Check out our unboxing and first impression videos.) (And yes, this is episode 269, I think I say 268 at the top because I was using the wrong document for the intro!) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mikhael Tara Garver of 13EXP is back, and she's bringing along some friends who are all working on the upcoming RIO REVEALS series, created in collaboration with RIVER LA the new series will extend to both digital and physical experiences about and around the LA River. Along with Mikhael, we are joined by experiential producer Daniel Penilla, and composers Jonathan Sanford and Amanda Yamate, to talk about the unique project about this most unique of rivers. Show Notes RIO REVEALS The Everything Immersive FB Group Code of Conduct The NoPro Slack Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Climate change was once a hidden crisis, but here in California it has taken the already dangerous time of year known as "fire season" and accelerated it to something apocalyptic in nature. Writer-performer Monica Miklas and her director-producer Lauren Ludwig – the co-founders of LA's Capital W – join us to talk about Fire Season. This new socially-distanced production projects a collection of Miklas' essays on the nature of change itself via FM radio onto the landscape of the Santa Monica Mountains, which have themselves been touched by flames. Show Notes The Everything Immersive Facebook Group Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tara O'Con is an experiential artist and transformation coach whose work you may be familiar with as a performer in Third Rail Projects' Then She Fell and The Grand Paradise. Tara's performance in Then She Fell is a key part of our host Noah Nelson's own immersive origin story. In this After Dark episode, Noah catches up with Tara after her first day on the load out of Then She Fell to talk about the impact of that production on her professional and personal journey. Note: Tara is also offering NoPro Listeners a free transformation coaching session where you can talk about navigating big changes, finding clarity and perspective around a particular life challenge, getting unstuck (creatively or otherwise), goal setting, or simply a place for reflection to process the moment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kathryn Yu, Patrick McLean, and Will Cherry of the NoPro team join host Noah Nelson to talk the news of the week including: Venice VR Expanded More VR Festivals Pandemic Era Programming and, burying the lede: The Oculus Quest 2. Here. We. Go. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We've been looking forward to this one for a minute: Coach Leanne Pedante and Within's Jonny Ahdout join host Noah Nelson to talk about Supernatural, the VR fitness service that has been keeping us on our toes all summer. Show Notes Supernatural Facebook Group Kathryn's interview with the Knight Foundation Everything Immersive The NoPro Slack The NoPro Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The highly anticipated AREA 15 will open its doors in Las Vegas on September 17th, kicking off a rollout of the immersive entertainment hub that will last into next year and the debut of Meow Wolf Las Vegas aka Omega Mart. This week, Area 15 CEO Winston Fisher and Chief Creative Officer Michael Beneville join host Noah Nelson to talk about the road that led here and what to expect from Area 15's rollout. Show Notes Venice VR Expanded Burning Man Multiverse Freeform's Holiday Road Everything Immersive The NoPro Slack The NoPro Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Liz Rosenthal, co-curator of Venice VR at the Venice International Film Festival with Michel Reilhac, joins host Noah Nelson to talk about the 2020 edition. This year's event is Venice VR Expanded, a hybrid digital/physical exposition of over 40 works in VR -- from 360 film to live theatrical performances -- across a host of venues virtual and physical. And the best news: if you own a VR headset of just about any stripe, you can experience some of the programming at home as the festival unfolds. On top of all that: this is just a great conversation. Venice VR Expanded runs Wed, Sep 2, 2020 — Sat, Sep 12, 2020. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

David & Lisa Spira of Room Escape Artist join us to talk about THIS WEEKEND'S RECON: Reality Escape Convention. Original planned out as an in-person event in Boston, they've put in a whole lot of work to raise the bar on the online replacement. And they're giving it away for FREE. Aug. 23 & 24. Ten hours a day of programming across the escape game universe. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On Monday of this week NYC's Third Rail Projects announced the end of Then She Fell, the seminal immersive production which inspired countless fans and creators, after seven and a half years and 4,444 performances due to the ongoing pandemic. That night we asked our team to gather in our Discord, along with some friends, to share memories and talk about what the show meant to them. You can also find our tribute post on the website. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

So our already planned bye week nearly got a bit more "bye" to it. The plan was to drop the next installment of Webbed Toes... but when I opened up the files this morning it turns out that Craig, our Discord recording tool, had basically eaten Zay's track up and turned him into a squirrel. Luckily I had been paranoid about Craig that week, and used Audio Hijack to record the session as a backup. Even better: I REMEMBERED that I did that about halfway through writing this post and telling you all we'd have no episode. This time out: our favorite episode of the series so far, some Robotech talk, and the subtle art of subverting musical homages to avoid lawsuits. EPISODES DISCUSSED JAW$ The Golden Lagoon of White Agony Plains Day of the Only Child Your assignment for next time: From the Casefiles of Agent 22 Who is Gizmoduck? The Other Bin of Scrooge McDuck Sky Pirates... in the Sky! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sean Stewart has been a lot of things in his storied career in telling stories. Novelist, LARPwright, actor, theatre tech, and most famously of all: one of the creators of the modern Alternate Reality Game. Now add "internationally produced playwright" to the list. Sean and Noah talk about his upcoming interactive play Roundabout, which will be performed by students of Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art via Twitch, and the evolving nature of theatre (yes with the "re") in the Pandemic Age. Show Notes Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art production of Roundabout Swings And Roundabouts: Theater Strikes Back - Sean Stewart NoPro Episode 156 - Sean Stewart & The Birth of the ARG Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's an all NoPro team episode. Executive editor Kathryn Yu, NYC curator Blake Weil, and LA correspondent Laura Hess join host Noah Nelson to talk about their latest immersive adventures, and what separates theatre from TV in the Pandemic Age. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jay Rinsky, the founder, CEO, and creative director of the NYC based Little Cinema is back on the show to talk about the arrival of Little Cinema Digital. This new venture from the production company has seen the theatre professionals pivot into creating a video platform of their own. They've been using it to host premiere parties for television shows, complete with online versions of the elaborate, immersive afterparties Little Cinema is known for. This weekend the public will get a taste with Who Killed Alejandro Valdez? - a free fan event that celebrates the launch of the second season of TNT's The Alienist with a murder mystery party that shows off Little Cinema's fantastic new platform. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Tender Claws co-founder Samantha Gorman returns to talk about the latest evolution of The Under Presents: an expansion that takes the form of a live-actor driven participatory production of Shakespeare's Tempest. Along for the ride are producer and assistant director Eli Bork, and actor Kelley Pierre - who some members of our LA audience may recognize from her live-action immersive work. Show Notes Distant Shores, Locally Sourced. At Home With ‘The Under Presents: Tempest’ (First Impressions) I Scream. You Scream. The Meltdown At The Museum Of Ice Cream We See You White American Theatre (Demands) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our side-track podcast covering the 2017 DuckTales reboot returns with Zay and Noah. This time out: The Living Mummies of Toth-RA The Impossible Summit of Mount Neverest & The Spear of Selene Content Advisory: starting at around 53 minutes we discuss the evidence of mental abuse and sexual coercion perpetrated by comic book writer Warren Ellis. It had bubbled up on social media the day that we’re recording. It makes sense in context, and I’d even argue that to not bring it up would have been more inappropriate given the context. However, I know that it’s not a topic you’d expect in a conversation about what is, ostensibly, a kids' TV show. The discussion lasts until around 1hour and 12 minutes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Virtual spaces can exist without VR headsets, and they can truly be wonders. This is an episode about one such space. Yannick Trapman-O'Brien, creator of The Telelibrary joins us to talk about how getting stuck traveling in the pandemic and a whole lot of phone calls contributed to the development of his unique creation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Linked Dance Theatre's Kendra Slack and Jordan Chlapecka join us to talk about Like Real People Do: Long Distance Relationships Division, the online edition of their dance-theatre series that explores relationships and memories. Blending character-based interactions, filmmaking, and site-responsive dance, this latest entry in the series overcomes the limits of online video to create a world that's equal parts whimsical and bittersweet. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Brittany Blum and Taylor Myers, two of the creators of Saturday night's hottest ticket -- Eschaton -- join us to share how the project came to be and what they've learned about translating an immersive nightclub into a mysterious web-based phenomenon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ricky Brigante and Sarah A.S. Elger, authors of the 2020 Immersive Entertainment Industry Annual Report, join us to talk about some of the big takeaways from this year's edition -- which is four times the size of the 2019 Report. Show Notes The 2020 Immersive Entertainment Industry Annual Report Pseudonym Productions (Brigante and Elger's production company) Everything Immersive - our new, searchable event website, now in PUBLIC BETA Identifying airborne transmission as the dominant route for the spread of COVID-19 (Research Article - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A few weeks back David Liu -- Creative Director at AFVR.co, a virtual reality consulting firm, and formerly the Creative Director of Viacom Next and recently with the volumetric capture company The Lightframe Co. in NYC -- who tweets under the handle TheDak posted an interesting thread-- which David now refers to as “that thread” about the state of hiring practices in XR. David and I are Twitter friends. I like the cut of his jib. He’s got a ton of experience, and he champions the multi-disciplinary approach to team building in XR, the most tech-heavy part of the overall immersive entertainment industry. We start out on the thread, but this is No Proscenium, so we go all over the place. Especially because David and I have never really chatted before. I love it when these kidneys of episodes work out. I do, however, talk too much. Shock. Plus: a few words about the current cultural moment(s) we find ourselves in at the top of the show from yours truly. -Noah J. Nelson Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This time out Zay and Noah discuss three episodes of the 2017 DuckTales reboot. TERROR OF THE TERRA FIRMIANS, HOUSE OF THE LUCKY GANDER, and THE INFERNAL INTERNSHIP OF MARK BEAKS are all covered along with the show's views on billionaires and a side trip into Jerry Garcia's favorite movie. It's the show about DuckTales, that's not really a show about DuckTales. Except when it is. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Continuing our miniseries where Zay Amsbury and Noah Nelson talk about the 2017 DuckTales, this edition covers the episodes "The Great Dime Chase" and "The Beagle Birthday Massacre," the movie Ben-Hur, Hollywood writers' obsession with subverting expectations vs. classical storytelling, and beer. Get yourself comfy, we’re gonna be here a while… Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to a special miniseries from the creators of No Proscenium. This is Webbed Toes: The DuckTales Footnotes, a show that is, ostensibly, about the 2017 DuckTales reboot. Only it's really about storytelling, character, and the grand sweep of pop culture. Annnnd racecars, lasers, areoplanes. This episode of the miniseries covers the pilot "Woo-oo!" (which for some reason is episodes 4 & 5 on Disney+, if you're watching along) and "Daytrip of Doom!" Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

250 Episodes. Five years. Our biggest show ever. Come celebrate with us with returning guests Anthony Robinson, Bryan Bishop, David & Lisa Spira, Juliet Bennett Rylah, Kathryn Yu, Kevin Gossett, Ricky Brigante, and Zay Amsbury across three segments. Plus: some announcements about the next evolution of No Proscenium and Everything Immersive. Segment One (The Now) --- 6:34 -- 1:19:04 Kathryn Yu Juliet Bennet Rylah Ricky Brigante Segment Two (The Future) --- 1:23:23 -- 2:15:51 Kathryn Yu Kevin Gossett David & Lisa Spira Segment Three (After Dark) --- 2:21:52 -- 3:47:40 Anthony Robinson Zay Amsbury Bryan Bishop Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Writer Betsy Isaacson and performer/sound designer Jennifer Suter of Sinking Ship Creations join us to discuss the LARP focused company's foray into phone-based interactive adventures. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Producer Mali Elfman and puzzle/path designer Tommy Honton join us to talk about Arcana, the new ARG from the creators of All of Them Witches, the 2019 Overlook Film Festival Game. There's an all-star LA immersive team behind these projects, and we get into how they came together, and why they're working on a new piece in the middle of this pandemic. Show Notes All of Them Witches’ (A NoPro Adventure) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, we're joined by Jackson Teeley, Sarah Galante, and Dan Barron, the creative team behind the upcoming musical Within Earshot: Anthems For The In-Between, which is set in a New York City coffee house on "Single's Awareness Day" aka Feb. 15th. Plotted out as an immersive piece, the creative team finds themselves tackling unexpected challenges in the wake of the pandemic. This conversation begins our look at the evolution of the project. Show Notes Within Earshot: Anthems For The In-Between Concept Album (Spotify) Concept Album (Apple Music) The Supernatural Diaries Week One The Newman Design Process Squiggle ★ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The last time we spoke with Adventure Lab CEO Maxwell Planck it was about Siggraph 2019. Now he's back to discuss his own work, the upcoming -- and totally awesome -- Dr. Crumb's School for Disobedient Pets. We get into that and the odd place that VR finds itself in at this moment: ready for all kinds of new experiences. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I've been tracking Robin Arnott's SoundSelf for forever. Now, after taking a variety of forms, the experience -- which Arnott calls a technodelic -- is coming home in both VR and PCs. We catch up with Arnott, who formed the company Andromeda Entertainment to explore transformational experiences, and Andromeda's Chief Strategy Officer Lyle Maxson to talk about the upcoming release of SoundSelf, technodelics, adventures in mind expansion in the Oregon forest, and the strange landscape experiential work finds itself in now. Show Notes Robin Arnott's The Technodelic Manifesto The Coronation - Charles Eisenstein Immersive for 'Indoor Kids' Vol 5.: Where The Audience Is Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Originally scheduled as the Horizon keynote speaker for the second day of the HERE Summit, Mikhael Tara Garver is the Head of Experiential Entertainment for Category 41, a "global experience company that creates, incubates and syndicates location-based experiences." She's also a long time friend of the show and one of the few people whose careers in immersive & experiential has stretched long and wide enough to gain true perspective on this always-changing domain. In lieu of the speech, we took to the HERE Discord on March 28th and opened the floor up for an Ask Me Anything session. This is the result. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sarah Ellis, Director of Digital Development for the Royal Shakespeare Company, was originally scheduled as one of our featured speakers at the HERE Summit. Since we're all on lockdown, Sarah joined us on the HERE Discord to talk about the innovative immersive work that the RSC has been exploring of late, and discusses how the current crisis is shaping some of the thinking the RSC has around digital and physical immersive projects. Plus: thanks to the show being recorded via Discord, we take questions from the audience live on air. You can get in on that action in the future by becoming a backer of the NoPro Patreon. Looking for immersive to explore from home? Check out Now Playing: Immersive for 'Indoor Kids' and Indoor Kids Vol. 3: Games Galore, both mentioned today on the 'cast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Story Engineer Shawn Taylor, a founding author of www.thenerdsofcolor.org, and a founding organizer of the Black Comix Arts Festival, first hit my radar at the 2019 IDS thanks to Mikhael Tara Garver. Shawn brought a perspective that was rooted in pluralism and the power of story to move people to action... and at that moment I knew I had to get him on the show/get him back on our stage. Well, 2020 is being all 2020, so the chance to get him on the stage was taken from us for now, but we still find a way via the newly minted HERE Discord. Post Show Notes: Recommended Reading/Viewing from Shawn Books Hero With An African Face - Clyde W. Ford Rabbit in the Face of the Moon - Alfredo Lopez Austine Oven Ready Chaos - Phil Hine Film The Last Angel of History - John Akomfrah Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's an all-Everything Immersive episode with two segments. Noah and Kathryn are in both, and for round one are joined by Ricky Brigante (Pseudonym Productions), David Spira (Room Escape Artist), and No Pro's VR correspondent Will Cherry. For round two we change teams and No Pro team members Cara Mandel and Anthony Robinson join us. It's kinda like an After Dark episode, but not. Everything is on the table this time out. Recorded in front of a "live" Discord audience. Content Advisory: cursing, and a discussion of different content delivery platforms that, indeed, mentions porn. Hey: it's the Internet. Show Notes: Now Playing: Immersive For 'Indoor Kids' Cara Mandel’s Indoor Kids Activity Guide The NoPro Slack (gateway to the HERE Discord) LEIA Relief Fund for Artists The NoPro Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A special, host only, edition of the podcast that addresses both the postponement of the HERE Summit & Festival and our craft's ongoing response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Show notes: COVID-19 & Freelance Artists (h/t to Michael Jung for sharing on FB.) Sorry for the rambling nature, it's been a WEEK, y'all. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We talk with actor Katie Peabody and actor/Ceaseless Fun company member Scott Monahan about the upcoming Everyone Agrees It's About To Explode, the new immersive show from Ceaseless Fun (Agnosia, Why I Want To Fuck Ronald Regan) set inside a cell of revolutionary activists. The show opens March 12th in LA. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Film fans know the Alamo Drafthouse, the Austin theater chain which has set the bar for transforming the experience of going to the movies. For years Los Angeles anticipated the arrival of the Drafthouse, and it seems to have been well worth the wait. From rowdy screenings of CATS which have since swept the nation to full-on ARGs there's something special happening at the DTLA Drafthouse. Host Noah Nelson talks with Ash Minnick, who handles the programming inside the Video Vortex, which we've come to think of as "LA's neighborhood movie bar" on the eve of their immersive EMMA. tea party. Plus: you can check out the HERE Programming Guide. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

NoPro's Executive Editor Kathryn Yu speaks to multi-hyphenate artist Jessica Creane of IKantKoan Games, the creator of immersive shows such as Chaos Theory and Know Thyself. They discuss the collision of theatre and games, audience agency, designing for meaningful choice, what keeps her going as an artist, creating safe spaces using immersive theatre, how her work bleeds into everyday life, as well as (spoiler) the time she cut off all her hair in front of a live audience. Catch Jessica as Dr. Genevieve Saoch in Chaos Theory at Caveat in New York City on March 5, April 2, and May 7. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

NoPro's own Anthony Robinson (Survivor: Fiji) is joined by Peih-Gee Law (Survivor: China and Survivor: Cambodia) and Room Escape Artist's David Spira to talk about the 20th anniversary of the reality show, escape games, and more. Show Notes: The 2020 Immersive Design Industry Survey Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Last week we were fortunate enough to have two of our staff at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, exploring all the XR goodies at the New Frontier. XR correspondent Will Cherry and our host Noah Nelson trade notes on a very exciting class of 2020. The verdict: VR storytelling is maturing rapidly alongside the tech, thanks to pieces like The Book of Distance, Scarecrow, Atomu, and All Kinds of Limbo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Yuval Sharon, Artistic Director of The Industry and co-director of that company's upcoming opera Sweet Land, joins host Noah Nelson to talk about his approach to making opera. Yuval has created the seminal works Invisible Cities and Hopscotch here in Los Angeles, propelling the conversation about how audiences engage with opera forward and raising the bar for immersive creators of every stripe. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We first met Jeff and Andy Crocker at the Hollywood Fringe Festival in 2018, where their piece Escape From Godot turned the festival on its ear for a whole day, only to fade into the night. Since then Escape... has popped up at Indiecade, the Denver Film Fest, and will soon be a featured selection of the HERE Summit & Festival in Pasadena this March. Host Noah Nelson talks with Jeff & Andy, aka Mister and Mischief, and Escape... and their new work The Builder and the Dove. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Luke and Madison Rhodes of Cross Roads Escape Games join us to talk about how these horror-loving theatre kids wound up running one of the most innovative and immersive escape game companies in Southern California. Join host Noah Nelson as we talk about their smash debut hit The Hex Room, the game-changing The Psych Ward, and the 2019's pop-up theatre piece The Seance. Plus: some updates on the HERE Summit & Festival. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The second half of our end of the year/beginning of the year roundtable with Anthony, Kathryn, Kevin, beer, and Noah. Plus: the latest programming announcement from the HERE Summit & Festival, taking place March 27-29 in Pasadena, CA. Beer Notes: Enegren Belgian Dark Strong Ale 5th Anniversary edition. (Moorpark, CA) Bruery Terreux's Tart of Darkness (2016, Placentia, CA -- we get this one wrong!) Brewery Ommegang Valar Morghulis Dubble Ale (Cooperstown, NY) WARNING: there is cursing because there is drinking. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week the team gets together for the first time in a long while, and then we add beer and whiskey to the mix and… Anyway, join Noah, Anthony, Kathryn, and Kevin for the first of four parts. Then Blake gets added to the mix. We’ll be dropping parts III & IV next week on the main feed, and a special Rise of Skywalker bonus episode with Zay and Noah into the Patreon feed (but open to all) over the weekend. Take a break from the chaos of the world and return to earlier in the week, when life was simple! ADVISORY: swears, probably. We were drinking. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we've got a special episode as Michaela Holland (NoPro NYC social correspondent) guest hosts a conversation with Abraham Burickson of Odyssey Works. Michaela has attended the company's Master Classes in the past, and she and Abraham talk about that and dive into the ideas that drive the company, which has been making cutting edge work since 2001. Speaking of: the deadline for the call participants for the next Odyssey is Jan. 5th, 2020. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Get ready to get weird as we touch base with the team behind 'The Under Presents,' the groundbreaking virtual reality experience that takes immersive theatre techniques and applies them to VR storytelling... and then layers in an experience with live actors dropping into the virtual world on top of that. Samantha Gorman and Tanya Leal Soto of Tender Claws join us, along with actor James Cowan, one of the performers currently appearing inside The Under. Plus: a little talk about California's AB5. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This month I had the pleasure of checking out American Contemporary Ballet's take on The Nutcracker Suite -- the perennial holiday favorite -- which they frame with an immersive twist. Interested in what I saw, and in the company's approach to using immersive techniques for a more traditionally tuned audience, I caught up with ACB's Artistic Director and Choreographer Lincoln Jones. Plus: word on your chance to check out ILMxLAB's Lightsaber Dojo without needing an Oculus Quest of your own. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Director Lola Kelly joins us to talk about her new work with The Unmarked Door -- 'Crimson Cabaret' -- which invites guests into a den of spies at the height of the cold war. With original songs by The Unmarked Door founder Rolfe Kent, and puzzles woven into the show by MOON/SHINE Experiential, the cabaret is an unexpected holiday treat for Los Angeles. Join us for a talk about the show and the art of acting and directing for immersive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.