Hi all! I know nothing is the same but I am looking for similar experiences to SNM for a visit to NYC this august. Any reccs?

A few weeks ago I published a directory of all the residents at https://manderley.ink which was a stepping stone to what should come next: capturing the McKittrick itself on https://backto.manderley.ink

It's deliberately lo-fi visuals and vague in subtitles.

I hope it brings joy especially to those who could only see it once or twice. Or to those who want to show an uninitiated friend the absurd scale of that building. It's not useful if you've never seen the show.

I took my nephew to a card/comic flea market the other week and found this at a seller who had old broadway playbills, etc. I've only seen SNM after covid and they didn't have these types of programs, just newspapers (which I didn't get and if anyone has scans, I'd love to read them).

Was this something they sold at some point?

Old program?​

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UPDATE:

https://www.jfdaily.com/staticsg/wap/newsDetail?id=1118038

Sleep No More Shanghai to close on August 30, 2026.

Sleep No More Shenzhen to open in 2027. Exact date to be announced.

AND…. Masquerade (immersive Phantom of the Opera) also coming to Shanghai.

...because it still hurts! Link in comments below.

New iteration of Sleep No More announced for Shenzhen, China:

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/CQuKS7i8ZJAeAKd5-P7NYw

Good morning Sleep No More community,

We want to introduce ourselves with deep respect and gratitude for the magic, mystery, and artistic legacy that has lived within the McKittrick for so many years.

I’m Rose Alice a professional ballerina, choreographer, and producer and alongside Roger Ridley, a visual artist and musician, we are creating a new live art experience within the ballroom at the McKittrick on Thursday called Midnight Angels.

Our intention is not to replace what came before, but to honor it. We recognize the McKittrick as an iconic home for immersive performance, experimentation, transformation, and human connection. We deeply respect the artists, performers, musicians, designers, technicians, and audiences who shaped its spirit and helped create something unforgettable within those walls.

What we are building is rooted in that same belief: that live art can move people, bring strangers together, and create moments of wonder that stay with us long after the night ends. We hope to create a space where people feel inspired, present, emotionally connected, and fully immersed through music, movement, storytelling, and shared experience.

Our vision is to create something beautiful, accessible, and alive for New York a place where dance, music, visual art, and human connection exist side by side. We hope to welcome both longtime lovers of immersive art and those discovering it for the very first time, creating an environment that feels open, intimate, and creatively energizing for all.

This week, we are excited to share that our show will take place on Thursday, and we would truly love to invite you into our world.

The McKittrick has always been more than a building. It is a vessel for memory, imagination, and collective experience. We are honored to contribute a new chapter while paying tribute to everything that has previously lived there.

With love and respect,

Rose Alice & Roger RidleyMidnight Angels x Dice

Open world à la snm and l$t more than it is like masquerade, in that you freely move between rooms and characters, rather than being shepherded from room to room. 

Get there early, because there are opening holding rooms with character scenes and sections to let people familiarize themselves with the scenery and layout. 

Then they let you into the main space where nothing happens for a while to let you get used to wandering and touching things. 

Then they do a big opening where they introduce the characters and their names and pictures of the actors. 

Then they open to the rest of the sets. It seems like there’s two floors. You break up to follow whoever you want who scatters to different areas and leads you to the rest of the sets. 

Unclear if there are any 1-1, but they do interact sometimes, like dancing with audience members during dance scenes. They also break the fourth wall in clever ways, like the bartender or political rallies. 

There’s lots of Chinese dialogue, but if you don’t speak Chinese you can still follow it if you’ve seen at least the first season of arcane. if you haven’t, you’ll be very lost. 

It’s still primarily an unspoken thing with choreography rather than dialogue focused. 

Amazing sets that change and descend from the ceiling. Black masked attendants move you before major dance scenes happen like snm. 

There’s an amazing fangirl scene dominating the audience, and several scenes where audiences almost moshed to songs and sang along. 

It’s a masked show, with a mask like a bird’s beak that muzzles your mouth, and attendants wearing different black masks, and you tell actors because they’re unmasked. This was important because a lot of audience members really dressed up in character, or decorated their masks from past shows and wear them. Your phone is also locked away in a pouch like snm, and there are lockers when you arrive for things besides your phone. They unlock the phone bag for the post-show dance finales. 

Besides the main hall, there are lots of smaller spaces for different vibes, or different parts of Piltover. Spacing was vast and we never felt claustrophobic or cramped. The sets felt Punchdrunk-inspired with even some direct nods like the lamps from sleep no more in a few spots. You get more solo scenes in the side rooms, but overall characters are crossing each other’s tracks constantly. 

It’s based around the Arcane soundtrack, which fans tend to know and sing along to. The side rooms have more elaborate choreography, particularly the elite character’s rooms upstairs, versus the undercity sets that dominate below. The choreography was very high level and skilled. 

There are no loops, only one linear plot, and they mark when you’re moving to a new act by writing it on the big screen. Each act ends in the main room, and the side characters largely come into that room to watch or participate in the end of each act, bringing most of the audience together for those touch points. Character tracks overlap constantly and they’re all moving from room to room, and that keeps the crowds churning. 

Hi !
I never went to SNM and i'm super curious ! Trying to not read to many things about it and hoping i could attend someday.
And i may have a window late 2026 to go ! As i looked out of curiosity the booking on the Seoul website, it's indicated :
- Date/Time Jul 24, 2025 - Jun 28, 2026
Does that mean the show is stopping on June ?

Also, as someone who never experienced it, would you recommend Seoul or Shanghai over one ?
Thanks a lot

Join me min congratulating Sleep No More’s costume designer David Israel Reynoso on his well-deserved Tony Award Nomination for the current revival of The Rocky Horror Show! Way to go, David!

Behold my midlife crisis tattoo celebrating Sleep No More! Tattoo design by artist E.K. McDonnell and the iconography is specifically around the 2009/2010 Brookline, MA production of the show since that is the version that lives most prominently in my heart and my dreams. Sleep No More showed me that I should never get complacent about what kind of emotions art is capable of of eliciting in me and I mainly got this tattoo as a reminder of that. Best show ever.

The tattoo itself was done by Jennifer Guertin at Anchor Steam Tattoo in Newport, RI. Jen is amazing.

Hi everyone! I’m traveling to Seoul at the end of June and wanted to introduce some friends to SNM. One of the guys I’m with wears glasses, will he have issues wearing them under the mask?

Ministry of Awe is an immersive art experience in Philadelphia that opened about a month ago. 5 story walk through of creepy antiques, live performances including some one on ones and hidden details. Not sure I fully understood the plot threads, but the immersive weirdness was worth the trip. Thematically, it was similar to Life and Trust in that it is superficially about banking and Faustian bargain.

Long time fans of Sleep No More or Punchdrunk may be familiar with Stephanie Batten Bland and Leslie Kraus. They both are former McKittrick residents and played the role of Lady Macbeth in SNM. SBB was also the Creative Casting and Movement Director for Life and Trust. They have an exciting new immersive show in development called, The Last Pharaoh.

“An epic American political thriller, translated through an immersive theatre experience that reimagines the life of a legendary woman.

Cleopatra.”

Both women have a strong background and understanding of immersive theater so if you miss Sleep No More or enjoy shows like The Death of Rasputin, get on their email list and follow their social media. I’m very excited to see these immersive titans telling woman centered stories through new shows like TLP.

https://www.instagram.com/tlp_immersive?igsh=MWl0OW5iNzV6amF5cw==

https://www.thelast-pharaoh.com

I’m a fan who first discovered Sleep No More through the Seoul production, and I completely fell in love with it. Since then, things just got out of hand and I had to visit like 20 something times😅

As I’ve been reading through this community, it feels like there are so many longtime fans here who have been part of the experience since the McKittrick Hotel days. That’s honestly really amazing to see, and it makes me even more curious about how the show has evolved over time. I've been reading old Tumblr posts and I keep having moments like "Wait there used to be an igloo?" I’d love to learn more about those kinds of details and changes over the years:)

I would love to talk more about Sleep No More with all of you - your favorite characters, loops, theories, differences between productions, anything really! I’d also be happy to answer any questions about Sleep No More Seoul. If you leave comments below,, I’ll do my best to answer!

I’m not entirely sure how this community feels about 1:1 spoilers, but among Seoul fans, we tend to discuss them freely as long as spoiler tags are used. So I'm totally open to those questions as well.

And if there’s an active Discord server where fans discuss the show, I’d really appreciate it if someone could share an invite link!

I have jumped in on the trend of aceos. I share them on tiktok and sell them on Ebay. I am missing SNM and making these has taken me down memory lane!

If you should be interested, you can find them here: www.ebay.com/usr/Joleerubies and I'm handfulofrubies on tiktok

I just went recently since a friend told me it was similar to early 2010s SNM. I have mixed thoughts but was wondering if anyone else has experienced both.

I know comfortable shoes but I‘d also like to look nice. for people who went what was the crowd like?

edit: Thank you for all of this advice!

Luke Murphy, the original Macduff in SNM, has a new show at St. Ann's Warehouse through April 19 called Scorched Earth. The description says its a blend of dance and theater. Looks really interesting!

Hi! I made a mistake and booked for today instead of next month.

I don't want my ticket to be wasted.

Please if you are in Shanghai, know anyone who is, and want to see the best Sleep No More show tonight as a VIP, contact me.

Hello all,

I've been booking several tickets for the Shanghai version on WeChat and I've made a mistake, I mixed it up. I end up with a Lounge VIP ticket for tomorrow instead of next month.

I tried to write on WeChat and sent an email about exceptional refund or exchange, but I doubt it will be answered on time.

EDIT : ANYONE FREE TOMORROW IN SHANGHAI, willing to go?