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Following its acclaimed runs in New York, Austin and São Paulo, where more than 500,000 guests experienced the trail, Disney Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas Light Trail is coming to the UK for the very first time, transforming Arley Hall & Gardens in Cheshire into the wonderful worlds of Halloween Town and Christmas Town from 22nd October 2026 to 3rd January 2027.

Continuing a longstanding creative collaboration that started with Faust in 2006, followed by The Masque of the Red Death in 2007 and The Drowned Man in 2013, the multi-award-winning theatre company Punchdrunk, will mark 50 years of the opening of the National Theatre’s home on the South Bank with Ghostlight, a new immersive production.

Voidspace has announced the full line-up for Surfing the Void, an online festival showcasing interactive digital work from creators including Chronic Insanity, But Why? and Seth Kriebel. Surfing the Void will run from 14th to 27th September 2026.

Koro will bring Trading Stories, an immersive storytelling marketplace, to Leadenhall Market on 18th and 19th September. Over two days, this free immersive marketplace transforms public spaces into moments of connection, where stories are traded, memories are shared, and small acts of encounter become the currency.

The London Dungeon has just announced that its new horrifyingly historical Halloween show, Curse of the Mummy, will run from Saturday 17th October to Sunday 1st November 2026. Based on the terrifyingly true history of the ‘Unlucky Mummy’, guests are transported to the delivery bay of the London Museum in 1889, where the infamous mummy board has just arrived - along with something far darker.

Leading immersive entertainment company Eclipso will bring its newest immersive experience, Everest: The First Ascent, to Venice later this month, where it has been officially selected for the Venice Immersive Competition at the 83rd Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica. The experience will have its world premiere in Venice from 2nd to 12th September 2026, before opening in Eclipso's Camden Town venue on 30th September 2026.

Award-winning theatre company Dante or Die invites audiences into the passenger seat of a black cab for Driving Home, a new immersive documentary exploring the lives, memories and journeys of five taxi drivers across contemporary Britain. Transforming a decommissioned black cab into a pop-up cinema, this free 20-minute experience seats just three people at a time. Sitting inside the cab and enveloped by spatial audio, audiences watch a 20-minute film unfold across the windscr

The Nikon Comedy Wildlife Awards, the global competition that has spent a decade using humour to campaign for wildlife conservation, is coming to FRAMELESS, London’s largest permanent immersive art experience. Opening on 12th September, a brand-new retrospective experience will bring together ten years of the competition’s funniest images presented at full scale inside the habitats where they were captured.

Ôl | Haunts is the first Welsh-language virtual reality work selected for competition at the Venice International Film Festival, marking a major milestone for Welsh immersive storytelling. Selected for the Immersive Category at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival, Ôl | Haunts takes audiences on a nostalgic journey back to 2006 - twenty years on. The work will be presented on Venice Immersive Island from 2nd to 12th September, marking its international premiere.

Peaky Blinders Underworld, which is located a stone's throw from London Bridge station, is an immersive experience inspired by the hugely popular BBC series. Made up of a fully operational recreation of the Garrison Tavern (which is free to visit) and an hour-long immersive experience set in and amongst Small Heath (which requires pre-booking), Peaky Blinders Underworld invites guests to dust off their flat cap and help bolster the Shelby family's position as Birmingham's mos

Tickets are now on sale for The Traitors: Anywhere, an officially licensed social deduction game inspired by the BAFTA and Emmy-winning global hit TV phenomenon The Traitors. The game brings the tension, strategy and psychological intrigue of The Traitors directly into players' everyday lives, played entirely through WhatsApp, with no additional apps or downloads required.

A new interactive installation celebrating Madonna’s birthday will arrive in central London on 16th August. Titled C’MON MEET ME ON THE DANCEFLOOR, the experience brings together music, large-scale visual storytelling and fan participation across the immersive screens of Outernet London. Created and directed by Lookport Studio, the installation has been designed for the venue’s vast 360-degree digital environment, bringing Madonna’s visual world to an entirely new scale.