{"id":233445,"date":"2025-09-17T09:01:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T09:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/233445\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T09:01:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T09:01:26","slug":"immersive-play-room-204-takes-over-a-nyc-hotel-room-every-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/233445\/","title":{"rendered":"Immersive play ROOM 204 takes over a NYC hotel room every Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Few places are as dramatic or revealing (or, unfortunately, filthy) as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/newyork\/hotels\/best-hotels-in-nyc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York City hotel room<\/a>. But this fall, you can rest assured that the filthy part won&#8217;t be part of a new immersive play that will unfold in very close confines behind a hotel room door.<\/p>\n<p>ROOM 204, premiering Thursday, September 18 inside\u00a0a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/newyork\/hotels\/walker-hotel-greenwich-village\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Walker Hotel<\/a> guest room in Greenwich Village, reimagines what immersive theater can be. Think Scenes from a Marriage spliced with the voyeuristic intimacy of Sleep No More: a bruising portrait of a love affair in all its turbulence, performed not from a stage but\u00a0almost in the audience&#8217;s laps.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/newyork\/theater\/the-40-best-off-broadway-shows-to-see-in-fall-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The 40 best Off-Broadway shows to see in fall 2025<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ROOM 204\u00a0stars\u00a0Anjelica Fellini (Teenage Bounty Hunters,\u00a0The French Dispatch) and\u00a0Dennis Flanagan (Ozark, American Rust) in a loose adaptation of William Gibson&#8217;s classic romantic dramedy Two for the Seesaw (previously adapted into the Broadway musical Seesaw) for an audience of just 10. The piece is directed by Ovation Award Winner Becca Mozo, with associate and movement direction by Sleep No More\u00a0alum Taylor Massa.<\/p>\n<p>The production marks the debut outing for Zusammen Theatre Project, a new, female-led collective\u00a0dedicated to\u00a0transforming unexpected spaces into stages while collaborating with small businesses and offering intimate, affordable productions. For ROOM 204, that means seating just 10 people a night every Thursday through November 13. Each performance is a front-row seat, because there\u2019s no such thing as the back row when you\u2019re pressed against the wallpaper. That also means the &#8220;turn your cell phones off&#8221; rule is more important than ever.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Zusammen\u2019s work is also an answer to Broadway\u2019s ballooning ticket prices and the paradox of live theater\u2019s accessibility problem. By taking the work into unconventional, donated spaces, they\u2019re betting on a future where audiences don\u2019t just consume theater but inhabit it.\u00a0Tickets are limited, the space is tighter than your first NYC studio\u2014and that\u2019s the point. If you want to see theater that\u00a0doesn&#8217;t feel produced by committee, grab your spot before the room fills up.<\/p>\n<p>ROOM 204 runs Thursdays, September 18\u2013November 13, at Walker Hotel Greenwich Village. For more info and to buy tickets, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkerhotels.com\/walker-hotel-greenwich-village\/experiences\/#!\/e\/room-204-e23c92e0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Few places are as dramatic or revealing (or, unfortunately, filthy) as a New York City hotel room. 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