The story is primarily told through meticulously choreographed dynamic movement with almost no dialogue. Whichever ticket you buy, plan on arriving at the building at least half an hour before your time slot so that you can maximize your time. Often times there are two shows per night – start times ranging from 4pm for the early birds to 10:30pm for the night owls. You will have two more chances to watch the “beginning” of the show as it loops back around later in the evening. That being said, the show consists of three one-hour-long loops, so if the first entry time is sold out, don’t panic. If you decide to purchase a ticket to anything other than the earliest time slot, know that you will be missing out on the very beginning of the story. SLEEP NO MORE is an immersive adaptation of Macbeth with a run time of about three hours. I want to share it with others, and more importantly, I want to pass on the respect and gratitude that I feel toward the show. All of this is to say that I care deeply about this show. The memory of that very first visit led me to seek out the immersive theater community in L.A. Particular songs, smells, or even the décor in some hip speakeasy will immediately snap me back to 2011 and the first time that I experienced the show. One might even say my wedding had a subtle SLEEP NO MORE theme. I spent a summer working front of house on the show and sneaking into the space on my breaks. I’ve shelled out money that I didn’t really have in order to return to the McKittrick Hotel a dozen times since the show opened. Now, I don’t claim to be the end-all-be-all expert, but for the better part of a decade, this show has been a constant influence in my life. Still just as obsessed as ever, my friend had volunteered on the show by “fireproofing the apothecary,” a phrase that sounded completely ridiculous at the time, but is wholly impressive in retrospect. A few years later, in March of 2011, SLEEP NO MORE opened its doors in New York.

I can only remember tiny details something about Shakespeare, something about the show being staged in an old elementary school, and something about… dancing? I didn’t get it. I had never seen someone talk about a show with such fervor. In 2007, a friend of mine at NYU told me about an immersive theater show that they had seen in Boston.

Sleep no more yelp