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For 2026, the creative team behind BATSU! will debut GANBA!!, an energetic interactive ninja training show for families. Through sword training, physical comedy, martial arts, water fights and audience participation, young warriors will test their focus, agility, teamwork and courage through a series of hilarious challenges as they train to defeat the Batsu no Akuma (Spirit of Punishment).

Following a hugely successful residency earlier this year, author and illustrator Anna Llenas’ iconic children’s picture-book series, The Colour Monster, returns to FRAMELESS, London’s largest immersive art experience, with The Colour Monster Goes to School.

In The Dark, a live music experience set in complete darkness that offers a one-of-a-kind journey into sound, will tour the UK for the first time this autumn, following several critically acclaimed, sold-out seasons in London. This extraordinary 70-minute show is performed completely in the dark, with a company of 30 live musicians and vocalists moving silently through the venue, entirely unamplified, surrounding a seated audience who wear eye masks throughout.

The Timewalk Exhibition, produced by Türkiye-based DEM Museums, is the company's debut immersive exhibition in the UK. Running at Immerse LDN below Excel London until 30th September 2026, the 60-minute-long experience invites guests to step back in time and learn about ancient civilisations through 360° projections, spatial sound and cinematic storytelling.

Little Lion Entertainment has confirmed that Arcade Arena London will officially open its doors on Saturday 5th September 2026, marking a significant milestone in the company's continued expansion of the live video game attraction sector. Opening with the PAC-MAN Live Experience, Chaos Karts and the world premiere of Alien Invasion, Arcade Arena has been designed as a flexible, multi-experience venue capable of delivering simultaneous, high-capacity immersive experiences.

Truthmachine places twelve audience members in an intimate interrogation room. Throughout the 30-minute experience, one volunteer is connected to a custom-built polygraph system and subjected to a live interrogation. As biometric sensors track heart rate, breathing and galvanic skin response, the rest of the audience becomes the jury, tasked with deciding whether the volunteer is telling the truth.

The Van Gogh Shogh - an interactive solo show featuring award-winning Philadelphia-based performer Donna Oblongata and directed by Francesca Montanile Lyons - sees the infamous painter, complete with bandaged ear, fur-lined cap and green overcoat à la Van Gogh's 'Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear', recast as a gig-economy delivery rider who happens upon a modern-day immersive exhibition dedicated to their own work.

From races across the city against the clock and stunning video mapping inside Cathedrals to expeditions into the darkest depths of Peru, here are our recommendations for the best family-friendly immersive experiences in London this summer holiday...

Room 13, an original immersive horror experience from Tom Maller (director of Peaky Blinders: The Rise, Doctor Who: Time Fracture, The Paddington Bear Experience and Secret Cinema's Casino Royale, Blade Runner, and Romeo + Juliet), is set to launch at Battersea Arts Centre this October for a two-week limited run. Inspired by the 2015 fire at Battersea Arts Centre, the spine-chilling 35-minute-long production blurs the lines between local history and imagined unreality.

Following high demand, The Traitors: Live Experience has released a new wave of tickets for the autumn season, with bookings now available for games running from 8th September to 8th November 2026. Since launching last year and introducing brand-new missions this Spring, the immersive attraction has continued to delight fans, inviting players to step inside the world of the BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning television phenomenon.

exit strategy's How to Win a Gameshow, which comes to Edinburgh Fringe this August, is a participatory show that follows Graham, who has spent an indeterminate amount of time trapped as a contestant inside a bizarre game show. The show explores our own capacities for complicity under observation, our impulses as a group and as individuals, and our presumed anonymity in theatrical, social, and technological spaces.

Immersive comedy-horror Jill's Tupperware Party, which comes to Edinburgh Fringe this August, is the latest interactive production from Asparagus Mousse Productions - an artist-led theatre company co-founded by performers and makers Coral Bevan, David Alwyn and Ricky Hunt, who have worked extensively with the likes of Secret Cinema and The Lost Estate.