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Phantom Peak, London's leading open-world immersive experience, will open its new flagship venue at Westfield Stratford City on Friday 4th December 2026. The new venue is a multi-level, accessible home for the experience, built by Tandem Set and Scenery and powered by technology from across The League of Adventure Group. It follows the original Canada Water venue, which closed on 28th February 2026 after 625 performances, having welcomed over 160,000 guests since launching

One of Europe's biggest immersive horror attractions, The Nightmare Realm, is making its UK debut this October, bringing 17 years of Irish horror, storytelling and theatrical spectacle to London for the very first time. Running for just 18 nights from 9th October to 1st November 2026, The Nightmare Realm will transform the historic Avery Hill Mansion in Greenwich into an immersive world of fear, launching its new theme, A Nightmare From Overseas.

In Every Single Sound in the World, the debut clown show from Manchester Fringe’s Best Newcomer nominee Natalie Patuzzo, an alien arrives on Earth with a simple task: to collect every single sound on the planet. Using her voice, everyday objects, and audience interaction, Natalie recreates and generates new sounds. The show also serves as a meditation on Natalie’s experience as an autistic person and the alienation children with autism experience. We sat down with Natalie

Groundbreaking immersive theatre company Punchdrunk will reopen the gates to the set of its hit production of The Burnt City at its home base in Woolwich this September. Marking three years since the production’s final performance, Punchdrunk will reawaken the immersive environment of Troy for a special one-weekend-only screening of Persephone, a film of the original production as it was performed.

The multi-award-winning creators of Richard III (a one-person show) and Timonopoly, Brite Theater, return to Edinburgh Fringe this August with their audience favourite, Hamlet (an experience). An interactive and participatory adaptation of Hamlet, the show allows audience members to get up close to the prince himself as he directs them in the story of his life. Ahead of its Edinburgh Fringe run, we caught up with Emily Carding to talk about the show.

Rydell High School has traveled from the American 50’s to give immersive theatregoers a taste of the malted and sugar-coated past, complete with hair grease, lindy hops, and leather jackets in Secret Cinema’s remount of Grease. And while there is no doubt that the energetic approach to this classic musical is a toe-tapping crowd-pleaser, a lack of attention to the company’s immersive roots leaves the audience feeling Alone at the Drive-In.

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.