MB Stage Productions’ The Study, which premiered at the 2018 Hollywood Fringe Festival, really started out great: an audience attends a science class to discuss fear, but instead of slides and experiments, several “students” are sent on a trip directly into a horror movie, and those that remain must observe and dictate the outcome of […]
“ A strange world of neon light, hidden in the middle of the Arts District. Led by an undertaker, a vigilante, and a true believer, this multi-part audio tour might make you question your mortality…and what lies beyond. Only you can decide what to believe.” – Trap Street, Darkness Comes Alive I wasn’t […]
It’s 10:00 p.m., and I’m standing outside a dark storefront in downtown Los Angeles with four other people. We soon meet our guide, a vampire mystic named Hakan, and he opens the door to our adventure, sending us back in time to October, 1985, to a dark New Orleans club, air throbbing with lust and the […]
In immersive horror, fear is key. But placing your guests in a state of simulated chaos without ever placing them in actual danger requires a safety-oriented team. In doing so, they must ensure that the environments, scenes, and content are safe and that both actors and creators have prepared for as many circumstances as possible. […]
Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts, penned in 1881, can’t be described as the most accessible text ever written, but its criticism of 19th century morals and the controversy surrounding its content is still an inspiration to modern playwrights. Due to its content Ghosts was, to say it generously, not universally praised at its initial release. But it’s […]
Unreal City, Under the brown fog of a winter dawn A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many. Sighs, short and infrequent, were exhaled, And each man fixed his eyes before his feet. -T.S. Eliot, “The Wasteland” I’m being led down the cracked streets of […]
A Trap Street Old school cartographers would spend a lot of time to create accurate maps. So, as a sort of copyright, they would add a “trap street” — a little alley or avenue that doesn’t actually exist. The idea of adding in a little secret or magic to a real space helped inspire the […]
I Pledge Allegiance begins ominously, in a pitch black hallway. While downtown Los Angeles bustles just outside the heavy door, a dozen or so unsuspecting patrons awkwardly sign waivers and fill the silence with half-hearted chuckles. A stone-faced security guard looks on, unamused at first, then impatient, then outright hostile. The tension is palpable. And […]
Below is an interview with Evan Neiden of the Candle House Collective, discussing the genesis and the mission of the company as well as their first immersive alternate reality experience, lastcandlearx. As this experience will not be remounted, please do not worry about spoilers. “These candles are all the souls on earth. Would […]
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