Latest News, Reviews and Interviews

Interactive comedy-horror Jill's Tupperware Party, which runs at Underbelly Cowgate until 30th August, was one of our most highly anticipated shows heading into Edinburgh Fringe this year, in large part due to the pedigree of the show's creative team. Coral Bevan, Ricky Hunt and David Alwyn - working here as Asparagus Mousse Productions - all have extensive experience in interactive and immersive theatre, and have worked on shows for the likes of Secret Cinema and The Lost Es

404 Theater's DeepFake, which runs at Underbelly Cowgate until 30th August, is an immersive theatre show designed for one audience member at a time. As part of the show, they take on the role of Alex Doe, the Head of Public Relations for MirrorMind - a tech company on the verge of launching a revolutionary new AI product that allows users to create their own deepfake content.

This autumn an AI-driven, immersive, interactive new courtroom drama will see humanity stand trial as Lightroom London presents GAWD v. The People. The show, GAWD, created by nilor, has the audience as witnesses and advocates as the live Judge GAWD, played by an AI agent, investigates whether humans deserve to stay on the planet and get another chance. Each performance is unscripted, with multiple active AI characters, and no two shows are the same.

Interactive Theatre's Faulty Towers: The Dining Experience is an immersive dinner show inspired by the classic BBC sitcom. As part of the experience, guests are treated to a three-course 1970s-inspired meal while Basil, Sybil and Manuel attempt to keep service running smoothly, with predictably disastrous results unfolding around them. We recently sat down with Interactive Theatre's Executive Producer, Jared Harford, to discuss the show.

Phantom Peak, London's leading open-world immersive experience, will open its new flagship venue at Westfield Stratford City on Friday 4th December 2026. The new venue is a multi-level, accessible home for the experience, built by Tandem Set and Scenery and powered by technology from across The League of Adventure Group. It follows the original Canada Water venue, which closed on 28th February 2026 after 625 performances, having welcomed over 160,000 guests since launching

One of Europe's biggest immersive horror attractions, The Nightmare Realm, is making its UK debut this October, bringing 17 years of Irish horror, storytelling and theatrical spectacle to London for the very first time. Running for just 18 nights from 9th October to 1st November 2026, The Nightmare Realm will transform the historic Avery Hill Mansion in Greenwich into an immersive world of fear, launching its new theme, A Nightmare From Overseas.

In Every Single Sound in the World, the debut clown show from Manchester Fringe’s Best Newcomer nominee Natalie Patuzzo, an alien arrives on Earth with a simple task: to collect every single sound on the planet. Using her voice, everyday objects, and audience interaction, Natalie recreates and generates new sounds. The show also serves as a meditation on Natalie’s experience as an autistic person and the alienation children with autism experience. We sat down with Natalie

Groundbreaking immersive theatre company Punchdrunk will reopen the gates to the set of its hit production of The Burnt City at its home base in Woolwich this September. Marking three years since the production’s final performance, Punchdrunk will reawaken the immersive environment of Troy for a special one-weekend-only screening of Persephone, a film of the original production as it was performed.

The multi-award-winning creators of Richard III (a one-person show) and Timonopoly, Brite Theater, return to Edinburgh Fringe this August with their audience favourite, Hamlet (an experience). An interactive and participatory adaptation of Hamlet, the show allows audience members to get up close to the prince himself as he directs them in the story of his life. Ahead of its Edinburgh Fringe run, we caught up with Emily Carding to talk about the show.

Rydell High School has traveled from the American 50’s to give immersive theatregoers a taste of the malted and sugar-coated past, complete with hair grease, lindy hops, and leather jackets in Secret Cinema’s remount of Grease. And while there is no doubt that the energetic approach to this classic musical is a toe-tapping crowd-pleaser, a lack of attention to the company’s immersive roots leaves the audience feeling Alone at the Drive-In.

For 2026, the creative team behind BATSU! will debut GANBA!!, an energetic interactive ninja training show for families. Through sword training, physical comedy, martial arts, water fights and audience participation, young warriors will test their focus, agility, teamwork and courage through a series of hilarious challenges as they train to defeat the Batsu no Akuma (Spirit of Punishment).

Following a hugely successful residency earlier this year, author and illustrator Anna Llenas’ iconic children’s picture-book series, The Colour Monster, returns to FRAMELESS, London’s largest immersive art experience, with The Colour Monster Goes to School.