The No Proscenium Podcast

Cesar Hawas, executive producer of Particle Ink: Speed of Dark, an incredible new show that seamlessly blends projection-mapped characters with live performers to create an immersive work like no other. It's playing now in Las Vegas and you really should go!Plus: Landon Zakheim of the Overlook Film Festival drops in to talk about this year's immersive offerings at the New Orleans celebration of all things horror this June.Show NotesParticle Ink: Speed of DarkOverlook Film FestivalThe Los Angeles Immersive InvitationalThe Denver Immersive Gathering Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Graham Wetterhahn of After Hours Theatre Company joins host Noah Nelson to talk about the upcoming Los Angeles Immersive Invitational, a 48-hour pop-up festival that challenges immersive creators from across LA to make new work out of thin air and share it with the public just two nights later. After a successful 2019 event, this year's edition will be held at the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles. Listen to learn which companies and artists are joining the weekend's festivities.Audience tickets for the Invitational go on sale this coming Monday.HeadlinesVR Researchers Simulate Kissing (Gizmodo)Japanese Immersive Art Collective Sues California Company for Copyright Infringement (ARTNews)Tribeca Immersive LineupShow NotesWOW Festival DiaryReview Crew Podcast: WOW FestivalReview RundownCall SheetGames For Change Festival Registration OpensAssociate Producer: Parker SelaMusic: Chris Porter Producer and Host: Noah Nelson   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Kevin Gossett hosts as Laura Hess and Noah Nelson report back from the 2022 Without Walls Festival in San Diego. The now annual festival, produced by La Jolla Playhouse, returned to Arts District Liberty Station with a collection of plays, performances, and public art pieces. The Crew tackles just a slice of this jam-packed event.Monuments [6:51]TransMythical [11:42]Ants [14:06]Somnium [17:35]Black Séance [28:06]A Thousand Ways Part Three [44:07]40 Watts From Nowhere [58:36]Show NotesWOW 2022 Festival DiaryBook Club: The Night Circus (May 17th @5pm PDT) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we talk with Owen Kingston and Chris Styles of Parabolic Theatre in London about their current season of immersive works and the company's new home the CRYPT in the East End, which they've shared with a few productions rehomed from the canceled Vault festival.Show NotesParabolic TheatreThe Los Angeles Immersive InvitationalReview Crew on Big Beautiful BRANDS: Doctor Who, Bridgerton & MoreAssociate Producer: Parker SelaMusic: Chris Porter Producer and Host: Noah Nelson   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Kevin Gossett hosts a conversation all about the kinds of big branded experiences that are many people’s first foray into immersive.Shelley Snyder joins from London to talk Doctor Who: Time Fracture [spoiler warning at 12:00] while LA correspondent Briana Roecks and Arts Editor Laura Hess detail their time at Netflix’s Bridgerton ball in LA (which has popped up in Chicago and D.C., but is different from the Secret Cinema one in London. Got it?) [13:45]Plus there’s talk about I Know What You Did Last Summer, which JFI put together for Amazon. [37:40] Plus you know we had to mention Arcane. (Another Netflix show. Huh, maybe they should do more of these. Ted. Call me. I have the solution to your stock problems.)  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's a mega-episode this week starting with a panel of rebels & rogues who offer their travel tips for journeys on Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser. Journalists Brooke McDonald & Todd Martens and experience designer Nick Tierce, all of whom were amongst the first travelers on board the Halcyon, join us for a spoiler-free discussion that aims to help those who are traveling on board the ship make the most of their experience… with just a little dash of design theory sprinkled in for good measure. [7:50]Plus we talk with performer/creator Stepy Kamei about her currently running one-on-one phone experience 'We Should Meet In Air', which brings audience members into contact with Sylvia Plath in the last year of her life. (CW: mention of suicide, discussion of mental health). [51:00]All that and we announce the return of the Los Angeles Immersive Invitational and how YOU can be art of it [open segment], plus the Pick of the Week [47:00], and Headlines [5:40]!Show NotesBrooke's Review of Starcruiser (Simplemost)Todd's Review of Starcruiser (LA Times)NoPro Review Rundown (f. 'We Should Meet In Air')Los Angeles Immersive InvitationalReview Crew: Pick Up The Phone, Willya?Associate Producer: Parker SelaMusic: Chris Porter Headlines: Kathryn Yu, Executive Editor of No ProsceniumProducer and Host: Noah Nelson   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Patrick McLean takes on the host duties and chats with Leah Davis and Laura Hess about the often overlooked genre of telephone-based immersive shows. The Crew dives into what makes the format tick, starting with a discussion of Leah's time with Sylvia Plath (in a sense) as part of 'We Should Meet In Air,' and carrying on with talk of Capital W's 'A Call From The Resistance,' the work of Candle House Collective, and the multiple manifestations of 'The Ministry of Mundane Mysteries.' Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Leanne Pedante (Head of Fitness) & Jonny Ahdout (Head of Product Marketing & Community) for the VR fitness app Supernatural join host Noah Nelson again on this the second anniversary of the launch of the best fitness app in VR and then some. Only this time we're in person and it's a blast. [8:25]From NYC: correspondent Allie Marotta interviews Kendra Slack and Jordan Chlapecka of Linked Dance Theatre about the currently running The Incomplete Collection. [32:40]Plus the Pick of the Week [28:12] and Headlines.Show NotesLustration Q&ANoPro Book Club: Planning Your EscapeReview Rundown for 4.5.22Review Crew Book Club Special: Snow CrashGuest Review: The Creator Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This time out Blake Weil, Patrick McLean, and Kevin Gossett report back from the NoPro Book Club and dive into Neal Stephenson's seminal Snow Crash, the 1992 book that brought us the term "metaverse" laid the groundwork for countless imitators and an industry.Coming up next from the NoPro Book Club: Laura Hall's Planning Your Escape. The club meets for its discussion group next Tuesday, April 12th at 8pm EDT/5pm PDT. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we talk with Amy Ashton, producer of La Jolla Playhouse’s Without Walls Festival which runs April 21st - 24th at San Diego’s Liberty Station — it’s the longest-running theatre festival of its kind here in the United States and this marks the beginning of an annual cycle for the festival. [4:36]Then solo performer Siobhan O’ Loughlin will be here to chat about the upcoming remount of her piece Every Day I’ll Hope, which returns to LA this month. [37:00]Plus Kathryn Yu has this week's immersive headlines and the Pick of the Week [32:49].Associate Producer: Parker SelaMusic: Chris Porter Headlines: Kathryn Yu, Executive Editor of No ProsceniumProducer and Host: Noah Nelson   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.