IMMERSIVE THEATER

Immersive Theater: An experience where the traditional focus of theater – narrative, character and theme – are revealed through direct sensory input and a design that surrounds the audience.

Immersive theater is a specific style of event that transforms theater into something tangible. It erodes the barrier between audience and actor while maintaining the same goals of traditional theater. It is evocative, transportive, and essentially, an adult playground.

Browse the company guide below to find immersive companies that might interest you. Scroll to the bottom to find our intensity guide.

There are numerous sub-genres of immersive theater, depending on its style and structure. This ranges from fully interactive with agency to impacting the narrative to non-participatory experiences set in an old mansion. They can be linear, multi-track, or sandbox (wander anywhere, follow anyone). But despite all these various formats, immersive theater is theater, and thus generally falls in intensity ranges between 0 and 3. When they move beyond that, they begin to fall in the immersive horror realm.

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