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With The Great Undoing, Phantom Peak offers up a conclusion to its time in Canada Water that stands comfortably alongside the show's strongest seasons. It's no secret that the show's approach to storytelling has always been ambitious and self-assured, with it constantly reinventing itself season after season, but to see the show's writing team bring three-and-a-half years' worth of stories to a conclusion with such confidence still feels miraculous.

Some of the world’s most innovative and ambitious artworks will go on show at the Wales Millennium Centre as part of the first-ever ANNWN Prize exhibition, running from 27th May to 26th June 2026. The first global award celebrating excellence in immersive storytelling, the Annwn Prize’s inaugural shortlist features four groundbreaking works from France, Greece, the UK and the USA, each pushing the boundaries of how stories can be experienced.

Charlie MacRae-Tod will take on the mantle of performing as Orestes in Witness’s UK debut production of Ritual at COLAB Tower this February.

Apple of Discord is the latest immersive production from the pioneering and critically-acclaimed theatre company Chronic Insanity, based in Nottingham. Artistic Director Joe Strickland aims to provide an experience that rivals the production values of London-based immersive shows from companies like Punchdrunk, but with affordable ticket prices and will have local performers at the heart of the magic.

As part of 2026's From Home Fest, and fresh off the back of winning an IndieCade award, cirqueSaw's rat-focused production labRats returns following previous work-in-progress performances across 2024 and 2025. In this browser-based remote performance, audience members take on the role of numbered laboratory rats and complete a series of cognitive tests to both earn treats and avoid 'the zappies'

Set to run at The Drayton Arms Theatre on Old Brompton Road from 16th to 22nd February 2026, The London Lovecraft Festival returns for its sixth edition and this year will feature five interactive shows.

We sat down with Phantom Peak's Co-Founder and Creative Director, Nick Moran, to discuss the show's new Westfield Stratford City venue, and what's in store for the townsfolk in Phantom Peak's final season at Canada Water.

Phantom Peak, the leading open-world immersive experience, has announced that it will open a new venue in London’s Westfield Stratford City in Summer 2026. First launched in 2022 at Canada Water, Phantom Peak has since welcomed over 160,000 visitors with a high 25% repeat rate and received critical acclaim from press outlets and overwhelmingly positive guest reviews.

This March, Vikings: The Immersive Experience, a revolutionary new immersive, educational and historical exhibition that goes beyond the battlefield and Vikings TV shows, will open at Dock X in Canada Water. The experience will give visitors an unprecedented deep dive into the lives of the Viking world’s most formidable family: King Ragnar Lodbrok, the wise Queen Kraka (Aslaug), and their world-conquering sons - Ivar the Boneless, Bjorn Ironside, Hvitserk, and Sigurd Snake-in

In Dante or Die's I Do, which first debuted in 2013 and returns now as part of the company's 20th anniversary year, the inherent drama and chaos of a wedding day is dialled up to an extreme, and offers audiences the chance to voyeuristically look on at the unfolding chaos surrounding the soon-to-be-wedded Georgina (Carla Langley) and Tunde (Dauda Ladejobi).

The Crystal Maze Experience is kicking off 2026 with a splash with the launch of its highly anticipated Ocean Zone, a brand-new environment that answers years of fan requests to bring the iconic TV show’s underwater world to life.

DARKFIELD, the producers of innovative, immersive experiences at the forefront of technology and theatre, are returning to Lincoln for the first time in two years, presenting their critically-acclaimed shipping container show ARCADE from Friday 13th to Sunday 22nd February 2026. DARKFIELD were last in the city in 2024, when they presented EULOGY to much excitement and acclaim.

Next month, Witness will transfer their production of Ritual to London for a limited two-day run after a successful run in New York. Ritual is an odyssey in content and form, based on Aeschylus’s epic Greek tragedy, the Oresteia, it's an 8-hour-long installation anchored by a single performer. Ritual invites audiences to share the space on the 21st and 22nd of February at COLAB Tower in Central London.

Later this month, site-specific theatre company Dante or Die will begin a UK tour of I Do, their acclaimed production set across six rooms of a working hotel. We recently caught up with Terry O'Donovan and Daphna Attias, Dante or Die's Co-Artistic Directors, to discuss the return of I Do, their approach to creating site-specific work, and what the rest of 2026 has in store for the company.

Opening March 2026 at The Lost Estate’s West London home, Chat Noir! is the latest creation from The Lost Estate, the company behind The Great Christmas Feast and 58th Street; celebrated for transforming live performance into fully realised worlds. Here, audiences will be transported to bohemian Montmartre of the 1890s, inside the legendary Le Chat Noir – the original Parisian cabaret club that launched a cultural revolution and gave birth to the modern nightlife we still cha

Marking the 20th birthday of Dante or Die, the company’s hugely successful immersive hit I Do returns in 2026 for a brand-new tour across the UK - reimagined for a new decade of love, secrets, and celebration. It will run at the London Malmaison from 20th January to 8th February 2026 as part of Barbican's Scene Change season, before heading to sister Malmaison hotels in Reading (11th to 14th February) and Manchester Deansgate (18th to 22nd February).