The No Proscenium Podcast

This week we’re joined by Cesar Hawas, producer of Particle Ink: House of Shattered Prisms, the spectacular creation of the Light Poets that has moved into the Luxor Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas and is wowing audiences in this follow up run to Particle Ink’s fabled run in Vegas’ Arts District. 

SHOW NOTES

• Particle Ink
• Particle Ink: House of Shattered Prisms
• The NoPro Review of the Original Run
• Review Rundown with the Shattered Prism review
• Reality Escape Pod: Noah Nelson
• RECON '24
• Immersive Experience Institute Newsletter

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This week we are joined by the dynamic Achinta S. McDaniel, Founding Artistic Director of Blue13 Dance Company whose all new work Soliloquy: Immersive Experience comes to LA's Heritage Square Museum May 31 - June 2. This marks Blue13's return to Heritage Square after the triumphant Shaadi in 2021, a highlight of that year.

We get into the themes of the new show, how working in immersive & site-specific compares to other mediums for dance, and if her students at the Glorya Kaufman School of Dance at USC see the immersive world as part of their futures.

Soliloquy: Immersive Experience

Blue 13 Dance Company

Broken Bone Bathtub: The Documentary & LA Immersive Meetup

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The Next Stage Immersive Summit 2025

The Immersive Experience Institute Newsletter

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Michael Epstein, founder of Walking Cinema, joins us to talk about The Fillmore Eclipse.

While Walking Cinema is well known for their intricate audio based walking history experiences, this is their first fully staged immersive performance based experience… one that like all of their work taps into the local history of the setting.

The Fillmore Eclipse

Walking Cinema

Life & Trust

Hollywood Fringe

Particle Ink

Broken Bone Bathtub: The Documentary & LA Immersive Meetup

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This week on the show Rory Mitchell of The Mercantile is here to talk with us about his new Augmented Reality narrative experience The Tent, which made a splash at SXSW this year and is now on the festival circuit.

The Tent

The Mercantile

Broken Bone Bathtub Documentary/LA Meetup

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Meow Wolf supercharged the way we experience art. Is L.A. ready for the wild ride? (LA Times)

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David Rosenberg & Glen Neath, Artistic Directors of DARKFIELD return to the podcast to talk about their latest work, the interactive audio experience ARCADE. A twist on the company's signature immersive audio storytelling formula, ARCADE features a branching narrative as you guide your avatar through a world ravaged by endless war.

• ARCADE
• DARKFIELD
• The Los Angeles Immersive Invitational
• World Premiere Screening in LA: The Broken Bone Bathtub Documentary

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This week on the show NoPro’s Chicago curator Patrick McLean hops into the host chair for a conversation with Miguel Angel Rodriguez, Co-Executive Director of Chicago’s own Albany Park Theater Project and Jennine Willett, co-artistic director of the NYC based Third Rail Projects about the two company’s ongoing collaboration over the years and its current incarnation — the immersive theatre experience Port of Entry.

• Albany Park Theater Project
• Third Rail Projects
• Port of Entry
• The Los Angeles Immersive Invitational

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We're joined this week by Robert Farid Karimi – whose work of late has included a series of interactive analog immersive game experiences involving topics such as community-police relations and the illegal detention of Central American immigrant youth – and who is the co-director of the Public Practice + Generative Play StudioLab and serves as Assistant Professor in the Music, Dance and Theater department at Arizona State University.

It's a fantastic discussion about meaning-making.

• Robert Farid Karimi
• Worlds In Play: The Mint Experience!
• LA Immersive Invitational

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This week on the show we’re joined by Ivan Carić and Emily Carding of The Key of Dreams, the follow up to the hit overnight immersive experience in the Welsh countryside which was reviewed for us last year by Ellery Weil, who also joins us on the pod for the first time.

The Key of Dreams draws on the literary tradition of weird fiction to create a strange and thrilling experience in Treowen Manor an early 17th-century manor house in Monmouthshire where guests stay overnight.

We dive in deep on what goes into delving into the realms of the uncanny in a historic locale in this week’s interview.

SHOW NOTES

The Key of Dreams

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This week on the show: we reveal the winner of the 2024 No Proscenium Audience & Editor Awards.

Check the site for the full list of Nominees & Winners.

The 2024 No Proscenium Audience & Editor Awards

The 2024 Los Angeles Immersive Invitational

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