“To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defies our boundaries and illuminates our souls.” – Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House room In 2017, for a few too-short evenings, E3W Productions invited us into their home and told us a ghost story. In Another Room was the kind of breakout […]
extra extra extra extra Extra It’s that time of year again, and Haunting’s Editor-in-Chief Taylor Winters sits down with Extra to talk the extreme haunts and immersive horror that will thrill and terrify you in 2018. Our very own Hvrting is truly honored to be featured alongside immersive horror legends Heretic, Theatre Macabre, CreepLA, […]
On my trip to Tension LLC’s Theatre Macabre, I met a man with one arm who leaned in close and told me “you should never be afraid to tell people what you want. Tell them exactly what you want.” The advice lingered with me even as the ninety minute show whizzed by in a fury—a tornado of […]
Back in 2004, during the Republican Convention, a group of renegade theatre artists, helmed by the mysterious Hieronymous Bang, literally and figuratively broke into the New York Immersive Theatre scene with I’m Gonna Kill the President!: A Federal Offense. They performed anywhere they could: bars, alleys, basements, parks…anywhere. The show would pop up unannounced save for an equally […]
“For God’s sake, be quiet. People are trying to sleep.” Awake As I begin my trip through CreepLA’s Awake, I am walking in silence through a smoky warehouse in Downtown Los Angeles, my eyes wide and searching. A soft, haunting choral version of The Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams” floats in the air as I move towards […]
The following is a review of The Speakeasy Society’s The Witch, with very minor spoilers throughout. All photos courtesy of Model05 Productions. witch It seems like it was just last month that I was sitting in a creaky church pew, watching The Speakeasy Society’s The Vow come to an anticipated, but nonetheless shocking cliffhanger. It […]
There’s a point in Shine On Collective’s Echo 1/Inside My Soul when, sitting in the passenger seat next to Victor Hamlin, sitting next to the man I’m about to become, where something he says strikes me in a peculiar way. There is something at work in the soul which we do not understand. […]
The Patient speaks in a rapid-fire cadence, a torrent of crisp words spilling out. He’s frenetic, he’s frantic and then, suddenly, he’s funny. The punchline hits and the crowd erupts in simultaneous groans and appreciative applause for a pun well done—and he’s funny—but that’s not all. He’s funny, but he’s also lonely. He’s funny, […]
Below is recollection of The Speakeasy Society’s The Vow. This is a full spoiler walkthrough. As there were four main faction-driven tracks for this experience, the overall experience will be recollected through a Blue (Revolt) lens, with diverging sections denoted by a colored title. Again, this is a review of ALL tracks in The Vow; […]
In late September, 2018, veteran writer and performer Larry Meyers and his theatre company, Ichabod’s Cranium, are teaming up with James Bond screenwriter Bruce Fierstein to create a new twist on the spy thriller. Using an immersive theatre approach, their production Tradecraft, seeks to put audiences in at the ground floor of a crisis that they […]
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