This week we have a doubleheader as first we are joined by Third Rail Project’s Co-Artistic Director Jennine Willlet and musician Coyle Girelli to talk about their new collaboration True Love Forever, which has just opened in NYC.

Then Immersive Experience Institute co-founder Kathryn Yu joins me as we break down just how next year’s Next Stage Immersive Summit — coming up Jan 17-19 in Pasadena, CA — is going to work as the event evolves some new forms and formats.

• True Love Forever
• Third Rail Projects
• Coyle Girelli
• Love Kills
• The Next Stage Immersive Summit
• The Next Stage Immersive Summit F.A.Q.

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On this episode: a preview of our 2024 Holiday Gift Guide with Kathryn Yu, Kevin Gossett, Patrick McLean, and Noah Nelson. Find the perfect gift for the immersive fan in yourself (even if that's just you).

GIFT GUIDE LINKS

• Box TWO by Neil Patrick Harris and Theory11
• Clue: Treachery at Tudor Mansion
• The Morrison Game Factory
• Star Trek: Resurgence
• Alan Wake 2
• Star Wars: Outlaws
• Life & Trust Gift Experience
• McKittrick Snow Globe
• Star Wars Etsy Universe
• Meow Wolf Vista Boss
• 2120

NOT GIFT GUIDE LINKS

• Denver Immersive Invitational Accolades (Facebook Post)
• The Next Stage Immersive Summit

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The last time British-Iranian theatre maker Javaad Alipoor joined us was way back in May of 2021 when we talked about Rich Kids: A History of Shopping Malls in Tehran — which at the time we said was “an incredible multi-media theatre piece that links a constellation of Big Ideas into an incredibly human story.”

His most recent work Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World is just about to wrap up it's tour of the US and is the final part of a trilogy of plays – after The Believers Are But Brothers and Rich Kids – that interrogate how technology, global politics and fracturing identities are changing the world.

Exploring the themes of the trilogy is exactly what we do in this wide ranging conversation with one of our favorite artists to talk with.

Warning: there is a description of a fairly gruesome murder, but we do not dwell on it for long. We do dwell on geopolitics on this episode which was recorded before the election in the United States.

• Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World - Washington D.C. Dates
• The Javaad Alipoor Company
• The Denver Immersive Invitational
• LA Fall Immersive Meetup
• The Next Stage Immersive Summit

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