Theaterati

There was no better, more thought-provoking, and more exhilarating show this season than Off-Broadway’s Sleep No More, the walkthrough theatrical experience that sets the story of Macbeth in 1920s film noir (also featured on Gossip Girl).

6 Floors. 100 Rooms. All curated and designed to simulate the world of Macbeth. Think graveyards, apothecaries, and sleazy jazz haunts where actors are able to move freely, and you as an audience member (forced to wear a white Venetian mask the whole time), are able to follow actors around depending on whose storyline you wish to follow. It’s choose-your-own-adventure.

You may do anything but touch the actors, or speak inside the multi-storied venue, but otherwise the world of Sleep No More is yours for the taking. If there’s a library, feel free to unhinge a book and browse through the pages. If an actor is reading a letter, feel free to peer over his or her shoulder and read along. And if you’re lucky, an actor will grab you and drag you into a room, lock it, and then share with you a monologue or an intense emotional connection that only you as an audience member of a voyeur, will have access to at that particular moment.

The show goes on loop thrice and is never the same, and there is a speakeasy that offers champagne and absinth which serves as your home base for the duration of the show period - which leads to me to this exciting news. Reposting this from the email I received.

Direct from New Orleans, and on the way to their sold-out 50th Anniversary Concert at Carnegie Hall, the world-renowned Preservation Hall Jazz Band will headline a week of very special late night performances of Sleep No More at the McKittrick Hotel (Jan 2-5).

Oh how I wish I could fly back to New York for this…