The No Proscenium Podcast

This week on the show — it’s a two-hander as Los Angeles Reviews Editor and Review Crew captain Kevin Gossett and host Noah Nelson trade notes on LA’s Spooky Season so far — covering Universal Halloween Horror Nights, Knott’s Scary Farm, the Haunted Hayride and a few asides along with shop talk about what makes these things click for both aficionados and the more causal spooky season goers.

SHOW NOTES

Disney signs deal with Lighthouse Immersive (Toronto Star)

Denver Immersive Gathering

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This week on the show — we chat with members of the creative team of Nightfall at Old Tucson — Erik Blair and Michael Thomas-Visgar – about how they’re transforming the classic haunted amusement park attraction into an immersive playground this year.

Then Justin Fix of JFI Productions swings by to talk The Willows, which is returning to LA with its first Spooky Season edition, and we do what Justin and I always do: start talking the business of immersive.  

Show Notes

NYC Immersive Meetup RSVP

Denver Immersive Gathering

Everything Immersive

CASTING

Boston Bar Bloodsuckers

The NoPro Discord Forums

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This week on the show — Yannick Trapman-O’Brien, creator of the beloved TELELIBRARY is here to talk about the TWO shows he has in the Philadelphia Fringe Festival — Fair Trade, a collaboration with Jessica Creane, and Undersigned — which is also making its way to New York City soon. [8:25]

Then David Thomas will be here to help us take a deep dive into The DIG — The Denver Immersive Gathering — as we announce the full schedule for this next great gathering of the immersive creative community that’s coming up on Nov 4–6th. [45:14]

Plus Noah’s riff on this week’s big immersive business news. [1:23:00]

• Fair Trade
• Undersigned
• The DIG
• NYC Immersive Meetup
• BOTO Fundraiser for NoPro
• Today Tix Acquires Secret Cinema for 100 million plus | Variety

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This week on the show — choreographer and creator Koryn Wicks is here to talk about the upcoming run of her show CASTING, a surreal, satirical take on the casting process that is having its first public run this month at Thymele Arts in Los Angeles after emerging as the winner of the 2019 LA Immersive Invitational, and in classic NoPro form we get into some theory while we’re at it. [5:00]

Then Walter Magnuson, General Manager of Winchester Mystery House is here to tell us all about UNHINGED: NIGHTSHADE’S CURSE, the haunt experience that will take over 13 nights at the Bay Area landmark starting later this month. [28:10]

SHOW NOTES

• CASTING
• Unhinged: Nightshades’s Curse
• Backer Exclusive: BOTO & NYC Meetup Early Access
• Denver Immersive Gathering

Associate Producer: Parker Sela

Music: Chris Porter

Producer and Host: Noah Nelson

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This week on the show — Andrew Scoville, the director of THEATER OF THE MIND, from creators David Byrne & Mala Gaonkar, which opens next week in Denver under the auspices of the Denver Center for the Performing Arts’ Off-Center program is here to talk about the show, and our Venice Immersive coverage continues [27:20] with Céline Tricart, creator of the VR experience FIGHT BACK, which explores the issue of gender based violence and gives participants a taste of the self defense techniques they can use to, well, fight back.

SHOW NOTES

Denver Immersive Gathering

The Weeping Witch

Boston Bar Bloodsuckers

Casting

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We kick things off this week with the creative duo Lola Tango, that's Jessica Kantor & Eve Weston, whose latest work is the exhibit Be Water My Friend which explores the life and mind of martial arts superstar Bruce Lee, currently on display at Seattle's Wing Luke museum.

Then NoPro's Patrick McLean stops by for a long chat with host Noah Nelson about what they've been playing, together and separately, in VR of late. That would be Walkabout Mini Golf's Labyrinth expansion (based on the Jim Henson movie), Moss Book II, and the tabletop dungeon crawl simulator Demeo, which is the not-so-secret origin of this segment. [27:00]

Show Notes

• The Look Club
• Trailheads
• NoPro Recommends: Best of 2022 (So Far)
• Review Rundown

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Our annual check-in on the Venice Immersive part of the Venice International Film Festival means we get to talk with Liz Rosenthal and Michel Reilhac once more, and there's a LOT to unpack with 43 projects from 19 Countries and 32 VRChat worlds in the mix.

Then we settle in for a chat with Eric Kohn of Indiewire who had a banger of a column last week "Embrace the Metaverse! Only, Please, Ignore Mark Zuckerberg’s Version of It," where he laid out a case that the metaverse is going to be to the entertainment industry as a whole what the VCR was to the film biz.

Show Notes

Call Sheet 8.25.22

BFI London Film Festival Immersive lineup

The DIG

NoPro Discord

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This week: another double header — we start with Keith Tralins and Kyle Prestenback of Hunt A Killer who stop by to talk about the mystery company’s extensive line up of boxed experiences, and the live action origins — and future — of the company. [2:50]

Then returning to the pod is one of our favorite people to talk immersive with designer and director David Ruzicka, whose latest work was experienced by those lucky enough to attend HBO’s House of the Dragons activation produced by Giant Spoon at San Diego Comic Con. [27:25]

SHOW NOTES

Hunt A Killer

Tricks and Treats at CA's Great America

Tricks and Treats at Valleyfair

Review Rundown

Call Sheet

Immersive 5: Paul King of Party Geek

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This week we have a not-so-subtle theme: gaming outside the home.

When that's your theme there's no one better to kick things off with than Kevin Williams of Spider Entertainment and The Stinger Report, the Global Amusement & Attractions news service, who shares his insight into the state of VR in the location based entertainment sector as evidenced by the arrival of Sandbox VR in London.

Then we hop the Atlantic to talk with James Cobalt about the Malden Gaming District in Malden, MA, a unique neighborhood in the Boston suburb gathers gaming experiences of all stripes into the city's historic downtown core.

SHOW NOTES

• Sandbox VR - London
• The Immersive Game Theatre
• The Immersive 5: The Light Poets
• Review Crew: Ring Ring! Phone Shows Calling!

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They're Baaaack.

The Crew – Kevin Gossett (LA Reviews Editor), Laura Hess (Arts Editor), Leah Davis (New England Curator), and Blake Weil (East Coast Editor at Large) – answer the call of three phone based shows... but first Leah travels to LA and encounters The Nest before it ends it run (1:00).

Those Phone Shows:

• I Cut Myself Shaving and I Bled So Much 11:40
• Lennox Mutual 24:55
• Our Options Have Changed 49:11

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