The best immersive theater in New York right now

A multitude of searing sights crowd the spectator's gaze at the bedazzling and uncanny theater installation Sleep No More. Your sense of space is blurred as you wend through more than 90 discrete spaces, ranging from a cloistral chapel to a vast ballroom floor: a purgatorial maze that blends images from Macbeth with ones derived from Hitchcock movies—all liberally doused in a distinctly Stanley Kubrick eau de dislocated menace.—David Cote 

Austin McCormick and his outré dance-burlesque troupe, Company XIV, pull new tricks out of their elaborate sleeves at an intimate spinoff venue located near the group's principal space in Bushwick. Cabaret chanteuses, sexy dancers, circus performers and fancy cocktails complement the prestidigitation in a cozy speakeasy environment.

Set your boats against the current and prepare to be borne back into the Jazz Age as the U.K.'s Guild of Misrule brings its long-running immersive adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's quintessentially American novel to New York City. The show, directed by Alexander Wright, unfolds interactively in a ballroom space at the ritzy old Park Central Hotel that has been retro-renovated to evoke Jay Gatsby's West Egg mansion. Audience members are encouraged (but not obliged) to dress up in 1920s finery. Dance a charleston, raise a glass and watch the American dream collapse under its own bejeweled weight.

An actor drinks heavily (in the vein of Comedy Central's Drunk History) and then tries to corral others into enacting a story by the Bard. Bibulous excess is encouraged.

Tom and Betsy Salamon’s unique adventure—part interactive theater, part scavenger hunt, part walking tour—draws participants into an amusing web of puzzles and intrigue. The three-hour Village tour travels through quirky Greenwich Village on Saturday afternoon. Groups of as many as 11 are booked every half hour.