Best Proscenium Podcasts (2025)

We're still on hiatus, but we recently got a chance to visit the new home of The Willows in LA and talk with Justin Fix and Stephanie Turek of JFI Productions as we toured the new home of one of LA's favorite immersive shows. The show has gotten a glow up in this new production, and fair warning that there are a few audio spoilers of new elements. …

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Episode 500 Part 9: The Last Word (Coda) 46:06

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We've reached the end. Of Episode 500 and Season One. Which means one last word from our host. See you in Season Two. (But don't act too surprised when we pop up a few times for some specials between now and then.) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Episode 500 Part 8: Launch Party (Bonus) 1:45:25

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This one is for the diehards. On Friday, August 29th, 2025 we held a Launch Party for Episode 500 in the NoPro Discord. We had no idea who would show up. To our delight Jacob Patterson, who you had a chance to hear in the last part of the marathon, ARGN’s Michael Anderson — who gives us a spoiler-free expectation set on Masquerade, the immersive Ph…

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Episode 500 Part 7: An LA Immersive Joy Ride 3:02:43

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We start Part 7 off where the show began, way back in Episode ZERO, which we first released on SOUND CLOUD as a pilot for a potential series, with an interview with Annie Saunders of Wilderness, whose The Day Shall Declare It jump started that renaissance era and got the local performing arts world taking things seriously. Annie and I look back on …

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Episode 500 Part 6: The Last Review Crew of Season One 1:23:16

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And now is the part of the Episode 500 Marathon where we get to some lasts. In this case, the last Review Crew of Season One. For this one, which was the last we recorded, and the last thing we officially recorded for Episode 500, LA Reviews Editor Kevin Gossett and Chicago Curator/Remote Editor Patrick McLean join me for a chat that ranges from ha…

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Episode 500 Part 5: An Unstructured Conversation About Immersive Theatre 1:41:48

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Welcome to PART FIVE of the Episode 500 marathon "An Unstructured Conversation About Immersive Theatre," which, really, could also be the title of the whole dang podcast but that might just break the very ontological concept of SEO. Come to think of it, that might not be a BAD thing. On this part of the Megasode we touch base with Episode One guest…

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Episode 500 Part 4: Review Crew Morning Zoo 1:39:29

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In Part Four of our celebration of TEN YEARS of NoPro, Noah taps into his alternate-dimensional form as a Morning Zoo radio host, unbeknownst to London curator Shelley Snyder, her London cohort Thomas Jancis, or NYC curator Allie Marotta. But before that chaos is unleashed, we check in with The Wild Optimists — Ariel Rubin & Juliana Moreno, whose f…

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Episode 500 Part 3: The Heart 2:16:37

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Look: when you do a thirteen or so hour long retrospective on a ten year long project you’re going to wind up with a part that stands out to you as the center of it all, and I knew going into the recording process that the central interview for this part would be that for this run. The only real question was where to put it and what to pair it with…

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Episode 500 Part 2: Review Crew Mixtape - The Gang Saves Chevy's 1:54:53

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Welcome to PART TWO of No Proscenium’s Episode 500 Celebrating TEN Years of the NoPro Podcast with the first of three REVIEW CREW MIX TAPES… this first one features SF Curator Brian Resler — whose couch is integral to the origin story of an entirely different website that covers immersive things… our associate producer Parker Sela, who also hails f…

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Episode 500 Part 1: A Quick Jaunt Through The Immersive Cosmos 1:58:37

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For the past ten years NoPro has been your guide to Everything Immersive… and this is the first part of the multi-part celebration - slash - victory lap that is EPISODE 500. Over the course of this weekend, for about TWELVE HOURS, give or take, okay maybe closer to THIRTEEN HOURS we will be checking in with over two dozen of our favorite people to …

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Venice Immersive 2025 w/Eliza McNitt 1:04:03

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This week writer and director Eliza McNitt joins us to talk about Venice Immersive, the annual XR extravaganza inside the Venice International Film Festival, where at this year’s event she is the President of Venice Immersive's International Jury, which will judge the 30 pieces in competition. SHOW NOTES Venice Immersive Venice Immersive 2025: XR E…

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Gillian Leitten, CEO of The Lumen Prize 1:05:02

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This week we’re joined by Gillian Leitten, CEO of The Lumen Prize because today is that day that the 99 finalists for the Prize are announced (check the Show Notes) and Leitten is here to talk with us about the prize which celebrates artists forging new systems of meaning through technology’s evolving creative frontier. We give a special focus on t…

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Franki Chan of IHEARTCOMIX 1:02:21

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This week on the show Franki Chan, founder and chief creative officer of IHEARTCOMIX, the award-winning creative marketing agency who joined us last weekend at The Next Stage Immersive Summit along with the team from #METAFORYOU of Terence Leclere, Dasha Kittredge, and Annie McGrath, to talk about the 2-night overnight horror horror experience at t…

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Sweet & Lucky: Echo 1:02:46

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Zach Morris of Third Rail Projects and Charlie Miller of The Denver Center for the Performing Arts’ Off-Center join host Noah Nelson to talk about the upcoming Sweet & Lucky: Echo — a companion story of the 2016 hit Sweet & Lucky –– which helped put Denver’s immersive scene on the map. SHOW NOTES Sweet & Lucky: Echo Third Rail Projects The Denver C…

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Detour Productions' Pompeii 54:28

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This week Parker Sela takes over the show to talk about Pompeii, no not the ancient Roman city that was destroyed by Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD, but the Fosse-tacular immersive by Detour Productions that is coming to San Francisco at the end of this month. Billed as “part Fosse fantasy, part queer cabaret, part end-of-the-world dance party,” Parker chec…

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night at the podvintory - Arkham Asylum 1:02:56

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The Infinity Crew got a cabin together over the weekend. We recorded several podcasts. Today we bring you: Arkham Poker. Riley is playing Black MaskMarn is playing Two FaceJay is playing PenguinEmma is playing Harley Quinnand Clowne is playing... herself... da joker baby We are on the Moonshot Podcast Network, which can be found at Moonshotpods.com…

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Meow Wolf's Phenomenomaly 53:15

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This summer a spectacle has bloomed at Meow Wolf’s Convergence Station in Denver and Omega Mart in Las Vegas, bringing a new interactive performance layer that unfolds on a continuous loop and new characters from uncharted corners of the multiverse in the form of dancers, puppets, and shimmering creatures called Flickerwermz. It’s called Phenomenom…

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Review Crew: Masquerade Buzz, Tribeca Immersive, Voidspace and more 1:41:25

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This week on the show it’s a hangout show as members of the NoPro Review Crew — namely Toronto curator Katrina Lat, New York correspondent Nicholas Fortugno, our associate producer Parker Sela, and catching up part way through NYC curator Allie Marotta as we chat about a whole lot of things including the brisk sales on Masquerade — that’s the immer…

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DreamPark: The Mixed Reality Theme Park of Tomorrow, Today 38:17

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This week on the show we’re joined by long time friend of the show Brent Bushnell — co-founder of Two Bit Circus, scion of the famed Bushnell family, and one of the earliest subscribers to the No Proscenium newsletter — who is here to talk about a new venture he is a co-founder of along with Aidan Wolf and Kevin Habich — DeamPark which turns mixed …

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Worlds In Play; Spies Among Us 1:12:58

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This week on the show we’ve got another double header. First up, Jake Pinholster the Dean of the College of Fine and Applied Arts at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Creative Producer & Director Scarlett Kim — the producers of Worlds in Play, join us to talk about the upcoming gathering of play practitioners—game and theatre artists …

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Theme Parks & Immersive Double Header: DC Heroes & Villains Fest at Six Flags; NoPro After Dark 2:10:28

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This week on the show we’ve got an extra-long double header with some real clarity of purpose as we take a look at IMMERSIVE inside Theme Parks. First up, Mike Ostrom, Manager of Entertainment and Events for Six Flags Magic Mountain and WOW! Entertainment Inc’s Mark Brymer join me to spill the details on DC Heroes & Villains Festival - an immersive…

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Tribeca Immersive 2025 52:45

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Today on the show we’re talking about this year’s Tribeca Immersive offering at the Tribeca Festival which is currently running in New York City. This year the lineup has come together thanks to a unique partnership between Tribeca, Onassis ONX, and Agog: The Immersive Media Institute. To tell us how that all came together we’ll be joined this week…

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Behind The Magic of The Labyrinth Masquerade 1:06:04

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This week on the show we go into the field for a visit to Sypher Arts Studio where Labyrinth Masquerade founder Shawn Strider and producer Jacquie Adorni give us a tour of the treasure trove of costumes that make up the living tapestry that is the Labyrinth Masquerade — the Twenty Seventh edition of which will take place this coming August 15th & 1…

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22 - How to Make AI + Human Creativity The Winning Formula 30:43

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In this episode, we’re talking with Proscenium’s VP of strategy and resident expert on AI, Henry Evans. Henry blends the intelligence of AI with the creativity of human ingenuity to create memorable moments for live events. In this episode he breaks down how to think about AI in ways that are easy, actionable, and actually fun. So hit the download …

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The Matrix, Cosm Style w/Little Cinema's Jay Rinsky 54:49

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Little Cinema's Jay Rinsky joins us to talk about his most ambitious project yet: bringing The Matrix — the 1999 blockbuster that defined action movies for a generation — to Cosm’s titanic video domes. In classic Little CInema style they’re using theatrical techniques to bring the world of The Matrix outside the film frame and onto the wrap around …

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Zelda - The Proscenium 1:45:34

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Riley Hopkins & Their Amazing Friends continues telling fanfiction stories, this time in THE LEGEND OF ZELDA! Talk about this on tumblr with #Zelda Rhataf or or bluesky with #ZeldaRHATAF Follow the cast on socials at: Riley: badfuckinpodcasts.com on bluesky Alan Sells: https://bsky.app/profile/alansells.bsky.social Jacqueline Swampert: swampert.tum…