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Fireside Tales, the latest immersive production from Punchdrunk Enrichment, is a love letter to the power of storytelling, our imaginations, and the importance of community. It's also utterly magical, for children and parents alike.

Christmas at Backyard Cinema is the latest festive offering from long-running 'alternative cinema experience' company Backyard Cinema. Previous events have seen them take over spaces within venues such as Mercato Metropolitano, Winter Wonderland and Camden Market, but they're perhaps best known for their much-loved Romeo + Juliet live cinema experience, which sees Baz Luhrmann's 1996 cult classic screened alongside performances from a live choir and band.

The Nutcracker Noir, produced by Secret Theatre and DesignScene, is an immersive dining experience at Protein Studios, a short walk from Shoreditch High Street. Running until 21st December, it combines immersive elements, live on-stage performances from a cast of West End talent and a five-course meal designed by Feast & Fable's Jenny McNeill to create an experience that's indulgent, classy and, most of all, incredibly entertaining.

Hot on the heels of its recent Halloween season, Phantom Peak returns with its annual festive offering, Wintermas. Running until 18th January 2026, this Christmas edition of the open-world immersive experience brings with it 11 new story trails, a festive retheme to the town, and the latest developments in its three-year-long overarching storyline, which is beginning to reach a climax ahead of the much-teased 'Great Undoing'.

In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which has just taken over Studio 2, Studio 3, and the connecting corridors of Hammersmith's Riverside Studios, has guests join Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect as they hitch a ride off a soon-to-be destroyed Earth and begin their search for the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything. Our review of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Live.

Santa is propping up the bar in his Santa has been propping up the bar in his favourite watering hole and is lacking in Christmas spirit. Can we save the holiday season and get him back on his sleigh, or has he hung up his boots for good? Our review of Humbug: Santa's Christmas Dive Bar Experience

In 79AD, the city of Pompeii was destroyed following the eruption of the nearby Mount Vesuvius. A cloud of ash and toxic gases engulfed the city, killing nearly all of its inhabitants, and the volcanic debris that followed entombed their remains, preserving their final moments in a hardened cast of calcified ash. It's one of history's best-known disasters, and the subject of The Last Days of Pompeii: The Immersive Exhibition, which has just begun a 16-week run at Immerse LDN.

Race Across The World: The Experience (West End) is the latest city-wide scavenger hunt experience from CityDays. Following hot on the heels of the original race, which launched back in May and had racers covering a route that took in the Barbican, the City and Tower Hill, this new West End edition runs for a limited time over the festive period and covers Mayfair, Soho and Covent Garden, taking participants through winding backstreets, past Christmas markets and down glisten

If you survived the end of the world, what would you be willing to do in order to stay alive? What would you hold sacred? Would you be able to live with the decisions you had to make? Those are the questions posed in What We Must, an interactive storytelling experience from theatre maker Aaron James Oliver that draws inspiration from TTRPG games.

Hexmoor: Wizarding Prison is the latest show from Inventive Productions, the company behind Alcotraz, Avora and Moonshine Saloon, three of London's best-known immersive cocktail experiences. Based within the same venue as Alcotraz (a short walk from Hoxton Overground station), Hexmoor invites guests to serve their time behind bars under the watchful eye of Cordelia Constance-Xanthe, a sorceress who's said to dabble in the dark arts.

Peter Broughton's adaptation of Frankenstein, which plays out for an audience of one each performance, is one of this year's most exciting new immersive productions.

Colosseum: The Legendary Arena is the latest immersive VR production from French producers Eclipso. Running alongside the hugely successful Titanic: Echos from the Past at their permanent Camden High Street venue, the 40-minute-long experience allows guests to explore virtual recreations of Ancient Rome and the infamous Colosseum alongside Caius, a teenager who idolises the arena's fighters, and Flamma, a Syrian-born gladiator who was one of the era's most famous warriors.

Following their residency at Shoreditch Town Hall earlier this year, DARKFIELD returns to London with a stellar line-up of four shipping container shows - ARCADE, FLIGHT, COMA and EULOGY. Taking over a corner of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park across October and early November, this collection of 360-degree sound experiences delivered through headphones in the pitch black invites guests to embrace the darkness and explore dream-like worlds that examine everything from free will

COMA, which first premiered in 2019, invites guests to enter a collective dream as part of a collective medical experiment. Lying in a whitewashed bunk bed, barely big enough to stretch out in, each participant is prompted to ingest a white pill laid out by their bed and slip away into a state of unconsciousness.

Set within a cross-section of a commercial aeroplane cabin, complete with a laminated safety card, working seatbelts, tray tables and overhead luggage compartments, FLIGHT invites audiences to experience two parallel realities at once - one in which the plane lands safety, and one where it doesn't

Sitting upon a single pillow inside individual laundry roll cages, EULOGY has audience members exploring the endless corridors and rooms of a labyrinthine hotel.