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Voidspace Live - the UK's leading interactive arts festival - recently returned for its third edition, taking over Aldgate's Theatre Deli for the weekend of 6th and 7th June. As ever, the two-day event presented a huge variety of interactive work, filling every corner of the venue with so many playable art pieces, interactive and immersive shows, live-action games and installations that any write-up of the festival could only hope to capture a small percentage of everything t

Faulty Towers - The Dining Experience, which runs out of the President Hotel near Russell Square, is an interactive dinner show based on the classic seventies TV series. While the experience has been running in London since 2009, its origins date back to 1997 when its creators, Alison Pollard-Mansergh and Andrew Foreman, first staged the show in Brisbane, Australia.

The Traitors Live Experience, which has been produced by Immersive Everywhere (Peaky Blinders: The Rise, Doctor Who: Time Fracture) and opened just off Seven Dials last July, faithfully translates the smash-hit series into a condensed 2-hour-long interactive experience packed full of deceit, betrayal, and social deduction for groups of up to 14 people at a time.

Following an early version of the show previewing last year, COLAB Theatre's post-apocalyptic escape room experience, The End, has now launched at the company's London Bridge home. Located within one of COLAB Tower's tunnel spaces, the hour-long experience sees groups race against the clock to progress through a military bunker and attempt to save the world from 'The Darkness', a mysterious and deadly entity that's wiped out a huge chunk of the world's population.

At a glance, Treowen Manor is the stuff of a romance novelist’s wildest fantasy - but something sinister lurks in its shadows. Lemon Difficult have transformed this idyllic hideaway into a twisting narrative of eldritch gods, sacrifice, and betrayal, and the result is one of the most unique and enrapturing immersive productions available today. Our review of The Key of Dreams: Shadows Lengthen.

The Crystal Maze Live Experience - first launched in 2016 by Little Lion Entertainment after a successful Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign - reimagines the series as an immersive experience, with teams taking on the roles of contestants. Alongside the London edition of the experience, which nowadays is located on Shaftsbury Avenue, a Manchester version of the same experience runs out of a former Granada TV sound stage on Lower Byrom St, a short walk from the city centre.

Image: ScreamWorks Back in 2022, ScreamWorks burst onto London's immersive scene with Bloodbath - a boundary-pushing horror experience set inside a serial killer's house that had guests being force-fed, chased and physically restrained. It was an intense and divisive experience that was unlike anything else available in London at the time, and, according to ScreamWork's founder, Gary Stocker, so realistic that at least one reviewer initially refused to enter the building for

Alibi: Dead Air, created by Dean Rodgers (The Crystal Maze Live Experience, Time Run, The Perfect Crime) and Tom Black (Crisis, What Crisis?, Bridge Command, Jury Games), is an immersive murder-mystery experience that has audiences working to solve the killing of Gloria Carpenter, a true crime podcaster who was hot on the heels of the infamous Malthus Killer.



Chat Noir! is the latest immersive dining experience from The Lost Estate, and transports guests back to Montmartre’s infamous Le Chat Noir club, the birthplace of modern cabaret and a notorious watering hole for Paris' fledgling bohemian artists and writers, for an evening of art, absinthe and anarchy through a combination of live performance, fine dining and immersive elements.

David Bowie: You're Not Alone is the latest immersive projection show to debut at Lightroom's flagship venue in King's Cross. Tracing the life of the ever-evolving performer, the hour-long show, made up of archived interviews, photography, sketches and live performances, is projected onto the 11-metre-high walls and floor of Lightroom's cavernous venue and offers visitors a large-scale, yet intimate, look into why David Bowie is still regarded as one of the greatest artists o

A Morte do Corvo, Lisbon’s grand necromantic immersive show, died last month after an impressive three-year run. The cause of death in this case was entirely natural: after several extensions, the production finally announced that the end was nigh.

Enigma Quest's Escape Arcade is a competitive escape-room style experience located near Chancery Lane for teams of up to 4 players. Within it, groups have 60 minutes to earn as many points as possible across a number of the experience's 30 different 'simulation' rooms. While it's similar in design to Prison Island, with both experiences offering players the freedom to choose which rooms to tackle in any order they like and the ability to replay rooms if they choose, the two e