REVIEW: THE TEMPEST BY RYAN M. LUEVANO If you like theatre and immersive experiences then you’ve likely seen the ads for The Shakespeare Center LA and After Hours Theatre Company’s premiere of The Tempest: An Immersive Experience, a fully reimagined immersive performance. A performance where “Guests will find themselves shipwrecked onto the shifting sands of […]

REVIEW: THE IMMERSIVE NUTCRACKER FÊTE BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO When we think of The Nutcracker, Tchaikovsky’s ballet comes to mind as it’s the most famous adaptation of this E.T.A. Hoffmann story. However, for anyone who’s been on social media this holiday season, “The Immersive Nutcracker Fête” by Fever also comes to mind. Billed as “the most […]

REVIEW: THE CRIMSON CABARET BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO Immersive theatre is all the rage right now and in the last couple of years it’s been finding it footing on LA. This whole movement started in the UK pioneered by the British theatre company Punchdrunk. Their shows like Faust to the currently running productions of Sleep […]

REVIEW: THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNEST  BY RYAN M. LUÉVANO Immersive theatre is on the rise all over the world, and now LA’s 413 Project Theater makes its contribution with a sophisticated experience that combines high tea dinner with a performance of Oscar Wilde’s beloved comic masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest. There are no […]

REVIEW: 1984 BY: RYAN M LUÉVANO George Orwell’s seminal work 1984 leaps out of the book and onto The Broad Stage in Santa Monica in this thrilling production by the Headlong, Nottingham Playhouse and Almeida Theatre from the UK. This gripping adaptation created by Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan recounts Orwell’s dystopian novel conjuring a […]