15 stories by "Noah J Nelson"
If you haven't been to New York to see Sleep No More or Then She Fell you've probably been wondering what the big deal is about immersive theatre. Maybe you've caught a few of the shows I've…
In this edition of the No Proscenium column: reviews of RETROGRADE and A SILVER LINING and some thoughts on the i-word. It's been a busy couple of months in the LA immersive theatre undergro…
Note: this is less of a formal review and more of a field report. Chalk Repertory Theatre, the theatre company behind this year's site-specific Fool For Love and Lady Windamere's Fan launche…
Performance Art comes in at a strange angle. Almost always conceptually driven, the field is wide open in a way that few other theatrically related crafts are. Craft isn't the right term in …
The best thing about live theatre is that it is always in 3D. In the case of The Theatricians Theater Group's production of Noah Haidle's Mr. Marmalade the three D's are demented, delirious,…
One of the highlights of this year’s Hollywood Fringe Festival was Source Material’s Into The Fog, a visually lyrical piece of physical theatre that manages to stir up a lot of e…
Last month an email popped up in the NoPro inbox from someone I'd never met, which is part of the fun of exploring the emerging LA immersive theatre scene. It wen a little something like thi…
Star Cross'd just might wind up being the most frustrating production I'm going to take in at the Hollywood Fringe this year. The high concept: Romeo & Juliet as a dance-theatr…
We'll start this one with a disclosure: I was invited to see two prior workshop productions of Bike Odyssey LA, so what follows is not so much a review as my notes on its current form. I'm h…
It is early enough in the development of the movement that's been labeled immersive theatre that what does and doesn't qualify is still up for grabs. Even the terminology is in flux. Some pe…
Inspired by the 1975 short film by Russian animator Yuri Norenstein, Source Material's Into the Fog is a poetic movement theatre treat at this year's Hollywood Fringe Festival. Not a literal…
I've been tracking the Will Play For Food Theatre Group since the 2012 Hollywood Fringe and their production of The Nina Variations. It was then that I first became a fan of director Scot…
Halfway into the Theatricians’ God of Abraham I turned to my companion and said: "I've never seen sketch mindfuck before." That's the most succinct way I can describe this delici…
Lost Moon Radio has been a Hollywood Fringe mainstay from the beginning, bringing their blend of "dry comedy and wet rock & roll" to each festival. Throughout the rest of the year the tr…
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