Can you prove you're not a witch? A candlelit interrogation for an audience of two is coming to London Bridge this Halloween season. Image: COLAB Theatre This Halloween, COLAB Theatre invites audiences to face the Inquisitor in ASH - The Witch Trials of Drudenhaus, a new immersive theatrical trial staged at The Cottage, COLAB's Tudor house in the heart of London Bridge. With an audience of just two, the accused sit close enough to be personally named, blindfolded, and led by the performer through a candlelit hearing. Rooted in the Bamberg trials, ASH is inspired by the Drudenhaus - or Malefizhaus - the purpose-built witch prison opened in Bamberg in 1627 during one of Europe's most intense witch persecutions. This is not fantasy horror. It is interrogation, confession, faith and shame. The show's signature device is a small dollhouse world that sits between the audience: church, healer's cottage, ash roads. Every mark that first looks like witchcraft is slowly revealed as proof the village came to her for help. The ash is not a curse. It is a bandage. Photo: Alex Walton for COLAB Theatre Written, directed and performed by Bertie Watkins, ASH is designed for the Halloween season as a compact, repeatable, two-person horror format - one table, candlelight, sound, darkness, and an audience of just two. COLAB Theatre are one of London's leading immersive theatre companies, creating close-contact, story- driven experiences for small audiences across a portfolio of atmospheric venues in and around London Bridge. Recent work has spanned immersive escape rooms, live-action horror and site-specific theatre, with a focus on new writing, tight ensembles and intimate audience formats. COLAB Theatre's ASH - The Witch Trials of Drudenhaus runs at 169a Borough High Street near London Bridge from 22nd October to 7th November 2026. Tickets are priced from £54.00 per person. For more information and to book tickets, visit ashimmersive.com

Photo: Luke Dyson Mundo Pixar Experience, the world's largest Pixar exhibition, has extended its run until 3rd January 2027, letting fans mark this festive season by stepping inside the world of their favourite Pixar films. Since opening in February 2026, the exhibition has welcomed hundreds of thousands of visitors, from families and couples to groups of friends and devoted Pixar fans. Mundo Pixar Experience is open Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Daily time slots begin at either 9am or 10am (depending on date) and run until 5pm. Photo: Luke Dyson Set within a purpose-built 3,500-square-metre venue in Wembley Park, Mundo Pixar Experience is the largest Pixar exhibition ever created. Visitors can step into the scenes from their favourite films, wandering through vividly recreated worlds packed with larger-than-life settings and must-snap photo opportunities. With the run now extended through to January 2027, visitors will have a final chance to experience the settings of Disney and Pixar’s Toy Story, Coco, Up and more before Mundo Pixar Experience leaves London. This final extension, which follows a sold-out summer holiday period, means visitors will be able to visit the Headquarters of Riley’s emotions from Inside Out, explore the Radiator Springs of Cars, and dive into Finding Nemo’s Great Barrier Reef throughout the festive season. Photo: Luke Dyson Mundo Pixar Experience (London) runs on Fulton Way in Wembley Park until 3rd January 2027. Tickets are priced from £24.00 for Adults and £18.00 for Children. To learn more and book tickets, visit mundopixar.com

Photo: MONOPOLY LIFESIZED After five years, MONOPOLY LIFESIZED, the ultimate immersive gaming experience based on the world’s most beloved board game, is inviting visitors to have one last roll of the dice before it closes the doors of its premiere London venue on 3rd January 2027. Since opening its doors in August 2021, MONOPOLY LIFESIZED has welcomed visitors to its inaugural venue for over 640,000 dice rolls and has transformed the way people can play the iconic game, fast becoming a staple of London’s entertainment scene. Whether it’s breaking into Mr. Monopoly’s vault, cracking codes and solving puzzles on Park Lane, or stealing artworks in Knightsbridge, MONOPOLY LIFESIZED is the perfect experience for friends, families, work socials, corporate events, date nights and anniversaries. Choose from four exciting giant-sized game boards: from the traditional Classic Board that we all know and love, the fast-paced Own It All edition of the Classic Board, to the bright neon lights of the City Board and the lavish high-rolling casinos on the Luxury Board. Complete with the adjoining The Top Hat Bar & Restaurant, serving an array of MONOPOLY-themed meals, beverages, bottomless brunches, cocktail masterclasses, plus a selection of classic Hasbro games, visitors can always try their hand at a completely new experience from the last. Photo: MONOPOLY LIFESIZED A firm favourite pastime of households across the world during the festive season, MONOPOLY LIFESIZED will be open throughout winter for those wanting to make their festivities even bigger and better one last time. Booking for groups and corporate parties for Christmas 2026 are open now, with a range of party options available. Plus, for those looking for an extra special gift to fit underneath the tree, MONOPOLY LIFESIZED’s on-site retail store offers a variety of special MONOPOLY-themed gifts, from card games and expansion packs to tableware, cushions and even a personalised MONOPOLY board. With its roots in the flagship location on Tottenham Court Road, MONOPOLY LIFESIZED has quickly taken the world by storm. The experience expanded to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in 2022, as well as the MONOPOLY LIFESIZED: Travel Edition touring across the United States of America and Mexico. More exciting news about the future of MONOPOLY LIFESIZED is to be announced soon. However, whilst it will be shutting the doors of its London venue on 3rd January 2027 for now, the experience’s success means the door will remain wide open for it to return to the capital in the future. Photo: MONOPOLY LIFESIZED David Hutchinson, CEO of The Path Entertainment Group, said: London has been an incredible home for MONOPOLY LIFESIZED. In designing the experience, we wanted to create a true celebration of the world's most iconic board game. With over 20,000 games played since opening, we have been overwhelmed by its popularity and are incredibly proud of the memories we've created for so many guests. London's immersive entertainment scene has flourished in recent years, changing the way audiences experience their favourite games, and we are proud that MONOPOLY LIFESIZED has played a part in this exciting evolution. While we are closing our London doors for now, this is not the end of the journey. We are excited about the future of MONOPOLY LIFESIZED and the opportunity to bring it to new audiences across the globe. We want to extend our heartfelt thanks to our incredible team, partners, licensors and, most importantly, every guest who has played the game and helped make MONOPOLY LIFESIZED such a success over our 5 years on Tottenham Court Road. Matt Proulx, Senior Vice President, Global Experiences, Partnerships and Music at Hasbro, said: Over the past five years, MONOPOLY LIFESIZED London has given guests a unique opportunity to step inside the iconic game. We’re grateful to The Path Entertainment Group and everyone who helped bring the experience to life, and we look forward to building on that momentum and bringing MONOPOLY LIFESIZED to even more audiences around the world. MONOPOLY LIFESIZED runs at 213-215 Tottenham Court Rd until 3rd January 2027. Tickets are priced from £54.00 per person. For more information and to book tickets, visit monopolylifesized.com

Ted’s Crazy Golf ShoreditchThe comedy-horror crazy golf experience will officially open on 22nd October, just in time for Halloween, with vampire toys, talking gargoyles, monstrous installations and retro cocktails. Photo: Laurence Howe Ted’s Crazy Golf has confirmed that their new Shoreditch venue will open later this month on 22nd October, just in time for Halloween. Located at 78 Great Eastern Street, the venue has spent the last 12 weeks being transformed from a former restaurant into a completely new comedy-horror world, combining two immersive 9-hole courses with giant animatronics, original characters, a retro-inspired bar and The Deadbeat Diner. With bookings now open, Ted’s is revealing more of what Londoners can expect inside its first London venue, from vampire toys and man-eating plants to custom-built monsters, retro cocktails and a crazy golf-like experience you’ve never seen before. The Shoreditch venue brings together Bad Bones, Ted’s gothic graveyard course, and Toy Bites, a brand new experience created exclusively for London. Bad Bones takes players through a strange trip to the ‘other side’, where trash-talking gargoyles, skeletons, zombie hands and Evil Iris, a man-eating Venus flytrap, are waiting around the course. Toy Bites takes a very different turn. Set inside a twisted vampire toyshop, this course takes familiar childhood toys and gives them a comedy-horror makeover, with a six-foot vampire robot, Scare Bear strapped to a blood cooler, and Buddy-in-a-Box among the characters waiting inside. Photo: Laurence Howe The idea is not to create a traditional horror attraction, but something much more playful. Ted’s is rooted in comedy horror, mixing creepy characters and dark humour with nostalgia, ridiculous ideas and unexpected details designed to make guests laugh as much as they make them look twice. Away from the courses, the food and drink offering has also been designed as part of the experience. The Deadbeat Diner takes inspiration from retro American diners, serving pizzas, hot dogs, milkshakes, ice-cream floats and frozen slushies, alongside cocktails including the American Scream, Peek-A-Boo and Cherry Cherry Cola. Over the last 12 weeks, the former restaurant has been completely stripped back and reinvented, turning the 5,000 sq ft space into two 9-hole courses of comedy-horror crazy golf, filled with custom-built monsters, original artwork, animatronics and theatrical installations. Photo: Laurence Howe Bringing the world to life has involved a team of artists, designers, prop makers and fabricators with backgrounds spanning major film and television productions, street art and international brands. Among them is illustrator The Butcher Billy, whose work includes projects linked to Stranger Things, Black Mirror and Marvel, alongside prop designer and fabricator Callum Bell of Callum Bell Creations, whose previous film work includes productions such as Frankenstein, Star Wars, Mickey 17 and Sonic the Hedgehog. Larissa-Sophie Houghton, co-founder of Ted’s Crazy Golf, said: It feels brilliant to finally be able to say that tickets are live and the full venue will be ready from 22nd October. The last 12 weeks have been about taking all of these ridiculous ideas, characters and sketches and turning them into something people can actually walk into. Seeing Toy Bites in particular come to life has been so much fun because it’s completely new for London. What I love about Ted’s is that it never takes itself too seriously. It’s comedy horror, so there are monsters and creepy things everywhere, but they are cool and sometimes even cute! We want people to enter and leave London behind, get off their screens and play in a world that ignites their imagination. Ted’s Crazy Golf Shoreditch, which is located at 78 Great Eastern Street in Shoreditch, opens on 22nd October 2026. A standard 9-hole ticket is £14.00. For more information and to book tickets, visit tedscrazygolf.co.uk

Photo: Lightroom Lucy Davies, Director and CEO of Brighton Dome, has today announced that the critically acclaimed and hugely popular 360° experience David Bowie: You’re Not Alone will open for a strictly limited season in the Corn Exchange, from 16th July to 30th August 2027. The 360° experience showcases some of Bowie’s landmark performances that redefined popular culture, using a mixture of iconic, rarely seen and never-before-exhibited material, selected from thousands of hours of film in the vaults of the David Bowie Archive in New York, from Space Oddity through Diamond Dogs and ”Heroes” to ★. Produced by immersive London venue Lightroom and designed by multi-award-winning studio 59, part of global design and innovation agency Journey, You’re Not Alone is written and directed by 59’s Co-Founder and Studio Director Mark Grimmer, who was Creative Director for the V&A’s David Bowie Is exhibition, and Head of Design Tom Wexler. Photo: Lightroom Audiences will have the chance to feel they have travelled through time to experience Bowie in performance - up close and first-hand. Each track in the show has been newly reconfigured to utilise Lightroom's specialised spatial audio system by multiple Olivier and Tony award-winning sound designer Gareth Fry (Harry Potter & The Cursed Child, David Bowie Is). This is David Bowie, the man himself. Instead of magnifying the myth through the lens of his characters - Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, Halloween Jack, The Thin White Duke - You’re Not Alone places its focus on the man behind the masks: the provocateur, the polymath, the shapeshifting icon in his enduring, human form. The film is structured in thematic chapters in a looping presentation, giving a unique insight into Bowie's perspective on the subjects most important to him, including theatricality, spirituality, songwriting and the transformative power of creativity. There are surreal moments, like the transatlantic TV interview with Russell Harty in 1975, in which Bowie artfully takes control of the narrative, and the interviewer is reduced to asking him questions about the colour of his hair. Elsewhere, the reconstructed set of the inimitable Diamond Dogs tour materialises before our very eyes, igniting a Bowie performance unlike any other captured on film. Photo: Lightroom Bringing together a wealth of visual material from a wide range of sources, the show combines rare performance footage, photography, drawings, lyrics, personal notes and audio recordings. David Bowie: You're Not Alone will celebrate Bowie's boundless curiosity as a force that connected people across continents and generations, as well as his enduring cultural impact today. David Bowie: You're Not Alone is being made in close collaboration with and authorised by the David Bowie Estate. Mark Grimmer, who also wrote and directed Lightroom’s David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (not smaller and further away) said: It says something about our relationship with artistic heroes that we're drawn to mystery, otherness, the alien... In Bowie's case, this is our construct, not his. Throughout his career, Bowie repeatedly resisted being figured as anything but human. Rather than undermining his mystique, we designed a show to celebrate Bowie as a champion of human creativity - focusing on the message he expressed time and again: that art, in all its forms, is our best hope for understanding what it means to be alive. Lucy Davies, Director and CEO of Brighton Dome said: This marks a new collaboration with the mighty Lightroom and a homecoming for Bowie to Brighton Dome, after his 1973 ban! Over the summer of 2027 our doors will stay open for this landmark experience in our beautiful Corn Exchange, bringing something very special to the city. Richard Slaney, Lightroom Chief Executive, said: The response to David Bowie: You’re Not Alone in London has been phenomenal, and we’re delighted to be able to see it open in Brighton in 2027, alongside more cities across Europe, to mark what would have been his 80th Birthday. The show offers the chance to feel the excitement of those groundbreaking performances, and get inside the mind of one of the greats. David Bowie: You're Not Alone will run at Brighton Dome Corn Exchange from 16th July to 30th August 2027. Tickets are priced from £29.50 per person and will go on sale at midday on Friday 2nd October. For more information, visit brightondome.org

Photo: Funicular Productions Funicular Productions' The Murdér Express Part Deux - Jewel of the Empire, which runs out of the fictional Pedley Street Station near the very real Whitechapel station, is an immersive dining experience set onboard the show’s titular train. With a seasonal three-course meal, a cast of live actors, and a knowingly ridiculous whodunit, the two-hour-long romp sees guests and the train's eclectic cast of characters become prime suspects as self-proclaimed genius Detective Gilbért (Phil Joe Amato) races to uncover which of the passengers has stolen the Jewel of the Empire and murdered one of the train’s crew members.



 The experience begins long before guests are escorted to their seats on the stationary train, as they're welcomed inside Pedley Street Station circa 1937 to collect their tickets and confirm any dietary requirements. As they're ushered through the station lobby to the platform, guests learn about the much-heralded Jewel of the Empire, which proudly sits on display inside the station ahead of being loaded onto the train bound for the French town of Murdér. It's less Chekhov's gun and more Chekhov's jewel.



 Once on the platform, guests wait for boarding to begin at small assigned tables, which denote their booth onboard. There's a full-service bar on the platform, which provides some liquid courage to get chatting with fellow passengers, but before long, haughty heiress Vera Valentine (Stephanie Wilson) and the train's conductor, Tomothy Timmins (Jamie Bannerman), weave through the crowd to make their presence known and get boarding underway, respectively. Photo: Funicular Productions Onboard the train, guests will find themselves seated in one of eight plush booths, which each hold up to six people. If you're attending with a large group, you can guarantee a booth to yourselves when booking, but smaller parties may be combined. Either way, each booth has an accompanying 'window', displaying looping animations of the French countryside and cities rolling by, as well as several flashbacks throughout the show. 



 While it's not going to win any awards for photo-realism, the cumulative effect of looking around the space and seeing the animations of rolling hills whizz by is impressive and surprisingly effective - so much so that one guest at our table initially questioned if we were actually moving.



 Once the 'journey' gets underway, no time is wasted introducing the rest of the experience's line-up of characters - notably liquor-loving archaeologist Dr Errol Earheart (Annie McKenzie), who recently dug up the Jewel of the Empire in India, and the enigmatic Russian femme fatale Saskia Selikov (Margot Cadic). The show's cast spends the majority of the runtime moving up and down the train's aisle. Depending on where you're seated, your view of each scene will either be particularly good or require some serious neck craning as the action unfolds behind you.



 Of course, a murder mystery can't be solved without the necessary murder and mystery first being established, so with the starters barely finished, the show's inciting events - the theft of the Jewel and the murder of Annie, one of the train's crew members - jump-start the storyline, with asparagus velouté-coated fingerprints being found on the plinth that housed the jewel. Photo: Funicular Productions While the train's most prominent passengers are all quickly accused, attention soon turns to each booth, with the cast moving from table to table to interrogate the unsuspecting diners. It's all fairly light-touch, with improvised, light-hearted conversations about who people suspect and our collective alibis, but these moments of direct interaction go a long way to drawing diners into the world, even if their accusations and alibis ultimately have little bearing on the outcome. The show’s central storyline, which is packed full of innuendo, slapstick and every murder-mystery cliché in the book, is firmly tongue-in-cheek. The five-strong cast lean into every comedic moment, and a couple of questionable accents only help to reinforce the show's cartoonish, over-the-top tone. Given the plot's many twists and turns, it's unlikely that anyone trying to stay one step ahead of Detective Gilbért will have much success, though there are enough clues hiding in plain sight to make a halfway decent stab at a conclusion. Or, you can do what we did and throw out a baseless accusation early on, only to be smugly proven right in the show's final act. The Murdér Express' three-course menu, which changes seasonally, has been created in partnership with Lunar Wedgewood in Staffordshire. Soon after being seated, there's an amuse-bouche of tapenade parmesan straws, quickly followed by asparagus velouté. The main course comes in the form of chicken breast, creamed potato, tenderstem, and peppercorn sauce (the vegetarian alternative is a soy-based chicken alternative), while a double chocolate chip brownie with vanilla ice cream rounds things off. Across the board, the quality of The Murdér Express' menu stands out among similar immersive dining experiences in the capital. The service from the venue's wait staff was equally impressive, with the entire team proving to be incredibly attentive throughout, even going so far as to throw in their own jokes and asides as several courses were served. Photo: Funicular Productions With its knowingly ridiculous mystery, cartoonish characters, and three courses of quality food, The Murdér Express is less concerned with giving diners a genuinely solvable murder mystery than it is with providing a thoroughly entertaining evening out. Don't stress too much about trying to crack the case; it's far more enjoyable to get swept up in the madness and go along for the ride. ★★★★ [Tickets gifted in exchange for an honest review] The Murdér Express Part Deux - Jewel of the Empire runs at Pedley Street Station near Whitechapel. Tickets are priced from £74.00 per person and include a 3-course meal. For more information and to book tickets, visit feverup.com

What if the party you walked into wasn't quite the party you thought it was, and not everyone in the room was having the same night? Photo: Rory Murphy This Autumn, Blue Fondue brings JE L'AIME to the UK for a strictly limited five-week season, welcoming just 20 guests at a time into a striking contemporary London home. Set within sleek, modern interiors, the evening unfolds in a space that feels intimate, cinematic and distinctly of-the-moment. Guests are welcomed in as new neighbours, helping pass round drinks and nibbles as the party gets underway, until a toast reveals the real occasion: Liv and Vic are marking their wedding anniversary, though not everything in this marriage is quite as it seems. A glass of French wine or a cocktail sets the evening in motion, with the story unfolding alongside a delicious selection of light bites. The experience continues beyond the 70-minute performance, with guests invited to stay afterwards for a second drink, pizza and conversation. Lasting approximately two hours in total, JE L'AIME is conceived as an entire evening. The contemporary home remains part of the experience throughout, its living spaces, dining areas and details of everyday life becoming the backdrop to a story that is constantly shifting. At the heart of the experience is a story written by award-winning writer and performer Tristan Bernays, created with Sophie Larsmon and founded by Ilma Tiki, JE L'AIME begins as a housewarming before revealing itself as Liv and Vic's anniversary, moving through memory, imagination and different versions of the past. Conversations take place across English, French, Hindi and Esperanto, while the boundaries between what is remembered, imagined and experienced become increasingly uncertain. Photo: Rory Murphy Food is cooking. Wine is flowing. Karaoke is about to begin. The mood is warm, elegant and familiar. Then something starts to shift. Details change. Memories begin to conflict. What begins as an intimate celebration gradually becomes stranger, more disorienting and harder to place. As the night unfolds, guests are drawn deeper into Liv and Vic's world, where the lines between memory, imagination and reality begin to blur. Blending experience and promenade theatre, JE L’AIME asks a bigger question about our relationships. Drawing on quantum mechanics, love, memory, culture and the impossibility of ever truly knowing another person, JE L’AIME is a thought-provoking exploration of how two people can share a life, yet experience it in entirely different ways. Photo: Rory Murphy The five-week UK season opens in South London, moves west, near Notting Hill, for three weeks, then moves for its final week to East London on the edge of London Fields. Arriving as themselves, as one of only twenty guests at each performance, guests step into a world that feels private, immediate and beautifully real. Or is it? When the evening ends, Liv and Vic's story doesn't resolve so much as multiply. What really happened? Which memories can be trusted? And if two people can live through the same moment and carry away two different truths, which one do you believe? Normal is not Universal. Blue Fondue's JE L’AIME will tour various London neighbourhoods from 9th October to 14th November 2026. Exact locations will be revealed 48 hours before each performance. Tickets are priced from £75 per person. For more information and to book tickets, visit bluefondue.co.uk

Image: Alice Immersive Wonderland This November, Alice Immersive Wonderland will make its world debut in London at Dock X in Canada Water, inviting visitors to step inside the iconic universe of Alice in Wonderland. More than 160 years after Lewis Carroll first introduced readers to Wonderland, his literary classic is being brought vividly to life in an extraordinary new immersive production where visitors will come face-to-face with iconic characters from Wonderland, including the White Rabbit, Cheshire Cat, the Caterpillar, the Mad Hatter, the Queen of Hearts and, of course, Alice. Designed to stimulate the senses and spark the imagination, this spectacular new 120-minute production invites audiences on an unforgettable journey through Alice's extraordinary story. Across ten immersive spaces spanning 26,000 sq. ft., Alice’s story unfolds through theatrical storytelling, live performance, projection mapping and multisensory environments, creating a rich and emotionally engaging journey through Wonderland. Visitors will be invited to fall into the Rabbit Hole and embrace a world where perceptions blur, scales shift, and dreams meet with madness as they follow their curiosity deeper into Wonderland. Each element of the experience has been designed for all ages to enjoy, encouraging visitors to embrace their imagination and sense of adventure as they journey through the mind-bending Doors Room and into the hypnotic Den of the Caterpillar, where they ponder the defining question: Who are you? Concept Art: Alice Immersive Wonderland Stepping into the Rabbit House, visitors will see Alice change size in this striking scene before losing themselves in the Forest of the Cheshire Cat and arriving at the iconic Mad Tea Party, where the table comes alive with illusions and characters caught in a loop of madness. Visitors will also encounter a series of narrative 'Curiosity Keys' interludes throughout the experience, hosted by English comedian, writer and broadcaster Paul Taylor, offering engaging insights into Alice’s world. The journey then leads audiences into the Queen’s Court, where they encounter some of Wonderland’s most iconic characters. Along the way, they meet the Queen’s eccentric servants played by live actors and make their way through a game of chess and Flamingolf, before finally reaching her iconic throne. From there, they continue to Lewis Castle, where the story behind Alice in Wonderland, the life of Lewis Carroll and the enduring cultural legacy of his work are explored. The experience concludes in the Hall of Dreams, a spectacular finale where monumental 360° projection mapping brings Alice's extraordinary journey to an emotional conclusion, inviting audiences to reflect on the ever-shifting boundary between imagination and reality. In addition to the 120-minute Alice Immersive Wonderland experience, visitors will also have the opportunity to join in and discover The Alice Tea Party – an immersive Tea Room inspired by the world of Wonderland and its unforgettable characters, featuring themed culinary creations, such as cakes representing a white rabbit, a red rose, or a mushroom, and hospitality experiences in a setting like no other. Concept Art: Alice Immersive Wonderland Working alongside London-based promoter FKP Scorpio Entertainment UK Ltd, the experience has been produced by French company Cités Immersives with Rivaj Group / Encore Prod, marking a new milestone in the international expansion of France’s leading immersive entertainment company. In addition, the team worked with English Literature specialists, Professor Robert Douglas-Fairhurst and Lawrence Gasquet, as part of an Expert Advisory Committee throughout the creation of the experience. Alice Immersive Wonderland will offer visitors an exciting new way to experience this timeless tale, guiding them on a spectacular sensory journey into Wonderland. Alice Immersive Wonderland opens at Dock X in Canada Water on 13th November 2026. Tickets will be priced from £26.00 for adults and from £19.00 for children. For more information and to book tickets, visit aliceimmersivewonderland.com

COLAB Theatre will send audiences through six floors of live horror to investigate an outbreak that may be trying to communicate. Image: COLAB Theatre COLAB Theatre will launch SPORE, a limited-time immersive horror experience, this October at a new venue on Gray’s Inn Road. In the 90-minute immersive horror experience, audiences pull on protective suits and enter a quarantined former dental school where a fungal growth has taken hold. Two investigation teams have already disappeared. Participants become the next team, moving through treatment rooms, labs and corridors to recover evidence, collect samples and establish a communication network. Live performance turns the search into an encounter with the outbreak and those it has changed. Image: COLAB Theatre The question is whether the organism is a danger to contain or something trying to make contact. As the team uncovers what happened to those before them, it must decide what happens next. Set across six floors, SPORE brings together site-specific theatre, interactive mystery and live horror. Up to 30 people take part in each 90-minute performance. COLAB Theatre are one of London's leading immersive theatre companies, creating close-contact, story- driven experiences for small audiences across a portfolio of atmospheric venues in and around London Bridge. Recent work has spanned immersive escape rooms, live-action horror and site-specific theatre, with a focus on new writing, tight ensembles and intimate audience formats. COLAB Theatre's SPORE will run at COLAB, 123 Grey's Inn Road, from 17th October to 8th November 2026. Tickets are priced from £38.50 per person. For more information and to book tickets, visit sporelondon.com

Image: Battersea Arts Centre/Immersive Octopus Battersea Arts Centre has announced the stellar experiential theatre cast and creative team for the world premiere of Room 13, an Immersive Octopus and BAC Co-Production. This experiential horror is built around a fictional world rooted in the aftermath of the fire at Battersea Arts Centre over 10 years ago. Drawing on folklore, local paranormal cases and the supernatural, multi-award-winning director Tom Maller (Peaky Blinders: The Rise, Doctor Who: Time Fracture, The Paddington Bear Experience and Secret Cinema productions of Casino Royale, Blade Runner, and Romeo + Juliet) creates a spine-chilling experience that blurs the lines between local history and imagined unreality. Room 13 runs from 16th October to 1st November at Battersea Arts Centre. The performances continue the London venue's experimental, boundary-pushing autumn season celebrating extraordinary new work from exceptional artists. The production will be brought to life by two first-class immersive performers Megan Louise Wilson - Juniper and Jules (Pleasance); Pride and Prejudice* (*Sort Of) (UK Tour); Doctor Who: Time Fracture(Immersive Everywhere); and Pool (No Water) – Royal Court) and Jeffrey Mundell - Landship (official selection Raindance Film Festival 2026); The Good Ship Murder (Channel 5) and Blade Runner (Secret Cinema). Photos: Megan Louise Wilson and Jeffrey Mundell Room 13 is brought to Battersea Arts Centre by Director & Conceiver Tom Maller, Script Writer Bells Pendergast (Guardians of the Galaxy, Stranger Things - both Secret Cinema), Designer Christian Ellinas for Niche Productions (The Traitors: Live Experience), Sound Designer Matt Farthing (Phantom Peak, Time Run, Sherlock: The Game Is Now), Lighting Designer Max Sharp (Lost Lending Library - Punchdrunk Enrichment), Costume Designer Anna Dixon, Production Manager Charlie Rayner for Niche Productions, Executive Producer Stephen-Patry-Makin, Producer & Game Designer Joe Mills, and Co-Game Designer Tristan Rogers. Director Tom Maller says: At Immersive Octopus, we tell stories that place the audience at the centre of the experience. We use performance, special effects and gameplay to transport you away from the real world. In Room 13 we do this on an intimate scale, blurring the lines between fact and fiction and inviting you to bravely take a step into the unknown. I’m hugely excited to be working with a team of creatives and performers on this project who are the best at what they do - it’s a really exciting group who are at the forefront of immersive practice - accomplished and highly innovative. It's also a privilege to be working with Battersea Arts Centre. As one of London's most atmospheric buildings, with a rich history to respond to, alongside a long tradition of supporting artists making unusual work, it is the perfect place to create a piece like this. Tarek Iskander, Artistic Director and CEO of Battersea Arts Centre, says: At Battersea Arts Centre, we’re always excited by artists who reimagine what theatre can be, and Room 13 is a brilliant example of that. Tom Maller and the team at Immersive Octopus have created a thrilling experience that transforms a single room at the front of our building into the setting for a bold new story, drawing inspiration from its unique history. As part of our autumn season of adventurous new work, Room 13 invites audiences to step into the unknown, explore the unexpected, and experience BAC's iconic space in a way they never have before. Immersive Octopus' Room 13 runs at Battersea Arts Centre from 16th October to 1st November 2026. Tickets are priced from £20.00 per person. For more information and to book tickets, visit bac.org.uk

Be warned: This WhatsApp-based version of the BBC series will take over your life and have you questioning every friendship... Image: CityDays With the finale of last year's The Celebrity Traitors drawing in nearly 15 million viewers, it's fair to say that the smash-hit BBC TV series is the closest thing we've got nowadays to appointment viewing. The show's mix of deceit, betrayal and subterfuge has proved to be utterly captivating television and has gone on to spawn versions in nearly forty countries around the globe. UK-based fans of the series have been particularly spoilt, with an excellent immersive version of the experience located in Covent Garden and an upcoming stage show set to feature Nick Mohammed, due to open next year. The latest addition to this ever-growing list of Traitors-adjacent experiences is The Traitors: Anywhere, which reimagines the show as a WhatsApp-based social deduction game that plays out over the course of a week. Produced by CityDays (who are no strangers to adapting TV series into interactive games with their scavenger-hunt-style experiences based on Race Across The World currently running in five cities across the UK), The Traitors: Anywhere takes every major element of the series - from breakfasts and daily missions through to round tables and murders under the cover of nightfall - and transplants it onto the phones of up to 30 players at a time. After spending a nerve-wracking, exhausting and supremely stressful week playing the game with a group of friends turned enemies, we can confidently say this: The Traitors: Anywhere is the closest you’ll get to experiencing what it’s actually like to be on the TV series without having the run of a remote castle and several weeks off work for you and your friends. It's also some of the most fun we've had in years. It had us questioning every friendship we had, losing sleep over potential gameplay decisions and taking up every free moment we had for a full week of our lives. Work, social commitments and day-to-day responsibilities all fell by the wayside as our Screen Time reached an all-time high, and we became completely engrossed in the game. Photo: CityDays So how does the experience work? Before the game begins, groups form a castle of anywhere from 8 to 30 players. The organiser (who sets up the game but is otherwise a regular player once proceedings are underway) arranges a date for the game to begin and has the ability to change the game's daily schedule to best suit those playing. By default, breakfast and each day's mission kick off at 07:30 and run until 13:30; the round table follows, concluding at 18:30; and the Traitors Conclave runs until 21:30, but these can be tweaked as required. All players are added to a WhatsApp group chat, where breakfast, round table discussions and a lot of the generally devious behaviour takes place, but the missions, round table voting and murders all go via the game's Host, an automated WhatsApp account that delivers key information throughout the game (think of them as a virtual Claudia, and you're not too far off...). Players are heavily encouraged to send video messages or voice notes through the Host during each banishment, which are later shared with the entire castle as the verdict comes in. Those who are banished or murdered have their ability to talk in the group chat removed, rendering them no longer in the game, but they're able to watch the chaos unfold throughout the remainder of the experience. Image: Castle Dashboard in The Traitors: Anywhere While most of the biggest reactions, slip-ups and accusations unfold in each castle's main group chat, the game quickly spreads far beyond it, with numerous other conversations springing up behind closed doors - whether it's additional group chats between players who trust each other, one-on-one chats between potential Faithfuls, or real-life interactions between those still in the game that no one can ever prove took place. Outside of strategising, players can look forward to daily missions which take anywhere from 5 to 20 minutes to complete and allow the castle to accrue gold and increase the total pot. The missions offer plenty of variety, ranging from multiple-choice quizzes about fellow players (all the information comes from a pre-game 'interview' each player completes) to Wordle-like games and team challenges that group players into smaller teams. Besides bragging rights (not that any player worth their salt would reveal how well they did to the rest of the group...), they're the only opportunity for those still in the game to earn shields and other powers, which can have a significant impact on how the rest of the game unfolds, particularly when a shield prevents the Traitors from murdering a specific player. It'll come as little surprise that the daily round tables and banishments are tense affairs. With so many conversations likely happening outside of the main group chat, it's not always clear which way the votes will go, and anyone presenting their theories has to be prepared to back them up with evidence to successfully get people on board. Because everything said in the main group chat stays there for the game's duration, there's a permanent record of how people are presenting themselves, and players can comb through it to their hearts' content. Image: Role reveal in The Traitors:Anywhere Thanks to the duration of the game (a week or more for larger groups), players will find themselves getting more and more invested with each passing day. While it's still shy of the three to four weeks it takes for the TV series to be filmed, The Traitors: Anywhere is the closest any spin-off has come to recreating the all-encompassing feeling of being in Ardross Castle, and discussions about each upcoming roundtable and who we suspected most dominated nearly every conversation we had that week. Given the experience’s length, players will also inevitably come up against real-life commitments - another element of gameplay that’s unique to The Traitors: Anywhere. During our game, a particularly lively round table was swiftly followed by several players having long-standing plans to see a West End show. Amongst the group, we later learned, was a Traitor who spent the evening biting their tongue and avoiding going on their phone for fear of blowing their cover. The deceit was so calculated that once the game was over, they admitted to researching which colours people find most trustworthy and planning their outfit accordingly, all in an attempt to avoid arousing suspicion. For other players, this blurring of real life and the game lasted far longer, with several couples having suspicions of their partners for the duration of the game, turning what might look from the outside to be an alliance into another source of unease. Image: Breakfast in The Traitors: Anywhere Depending on what people's day jobs are, there's a chance that some players won't be incredibly active, but during our game, even those with the most time-intensive jobs managed to keep up with proceedings - even if it meant they had a couple hundred messages to catch up on while travelling home. Being quiet could therefore be both a genuine consequence of having a busy life and a useful strategy for anyone trying to avoid attention. Given the price to play (£8.99 per player per game), the experience is remarkable value for money. Having made it to the endgame, we easily spent over 50 hours engaging with the game over the course of a week. Those eliminated early inevitably get less time with the game, but watching the game unfold day by day still proved to be an engaging experience. Once players are eliminated from the game, they’re still able to complete each day’s missions from beyond the grave, working against each other to win a free pass to play again. Our 18-strong castle has expressed interest in playing again in the future, but for the sake of our sanity, social lives and careers, we’ve agreed to let some time pass before re-entering the castle. It’s a phenomenal experience, but it takes over your life. ★★★★★ [Game passes gifted in exchange for an honest review] The Traitors: Anywhere runs on WhatsApp for groups of up to 30 people. It's currently available to players in the UK and Ireland only. Game passes are priced from £8.99 per person, with discounts available for large groups. For more information and to buy game passes, visit thetraitorsanywhere.com.

The interactive game-show experience gets a Halloween twist, turning players into contestants in a lost television special filled with Halloween pop culture and unexpected surprises. Image: BuzzAttack/Fever Forget watching Halloween specials on TV. This year, get ready to be in one. This Halloween, BuzzAttack is getting a complete transformation and will bring a haunted television twist to London with BuzzAttack Halloween Special: Episode 31, beginning on 1st October and running until 1st November 2026. Thirty-one years ago, a Halloween TV special was abruptly cut off before a winner could be crowned. The show's presenter was left trapped inside the broadcast signal, bound by a haunted contract that says he will not be released until a winner of Episode 31 has been crowned. Now, 31 long years later, the studio lights are flickering back on, the monitors are glitching, and the unfinished show has come back to life. Players who dare to enter the studio now become the new contestants of Episode 31, tasked with putting their Halloween knowledge to the ultimate test. Using speed, memory and reflexes, they must make it through nine rounds of the haunted broadcast to be crowned a Halloween Master. Photo: Fever The Oracle will test their knowledge of Halloween traditions, legends and symbols, while Count the Plague challenges players to a frantic visual challenge featuring spiders, bats, rats and other creepy creatures before time runs out. The Cursed Archive dives into the world of horror films, books and video games, while Break the Curse puts the players ́reflexes to the test. The Summoning Seal combines questions, riddles and strategy, while The Intruder tests their attention to detail before it's too late. The Possessed Song turns famous tracks into a guessing game, and The Ritual will challenge players to remember complex supernatural sequences, all leading to the final test. Don't Look Yet takes players to the experience's grand finale, showing clips from horror films and series that stop just before the scare, challenging contestants to predict what happens next. Photo: Fever London is one of just two select cities worldwide where Episode 31 truly comes to life. On select dates, the haunted broadcast doesn't just stay on the screen. The mysterious Zombie Host has escaped the broadcast, joining the contestants in the studio and stirring up trouble when they least expect it. Much more than a Halloween-themed trivia night, BuzzAttack Halloween Special: Episode 31 has been completely transformed into a larger-than-life Halloween TV experience. From the sights of new graphics and animations to the sounds of eerie screeches and screams, prepare to be fully immersed in a world of Halloween TV horror. Image: BuzzAttack/Fever BuzzAttack is brought to life by Bombastik! and produced by Fever, the world’s leading platform for live entertainment, and Inventive Productions, an award-winning experiential company. It is sure to bring an adrenaline-fueled trivia showdown perfect for friends, families, corporate groups and competitive spirits alike. Will you become a Halloween Master? Step inside the haunted broadcast and join the challenge! BuzzAttack Halloween Special: Episode 31 runs on select dates from 1st October to 1st November at the Rosewood Building near Hoxton Station. Tickets are priced from £16.90 per person. For more information and to book tickets, visit feverup.com