The Great Gatsby - The Immersive Show
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The Great Gatsby - The Immersive Show
83%
83%
(600 Ratings)
Positive
91%
Mixed
6%
Negative
3%
Members say
Entertaining, Delightful, Clever, Absorbing, Ambitious

About the Show

The roaring twenties are reborn in this new immersive take on F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel.

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Critic Reviews (6)

The New York Times
June 29th, 2023

“This production faces a typical problem for immersive adaptations of literary works: how to translate a beloved text via a format that is better served by a de-emphasis on the text.”
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Time Out New York
July 11th, 2023

“ ‘The Great Gatsby’ can be an entertaining night out on the town if you think of it less as a play and more as a night of dress-up...The beat goes on for those who ride the show’s current, eager to be borne back into the past.”
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New York Theatre Guide
June 26th, 2023

“The elusiveness of love and of the American Dream are the novel's most prescient, somber themes, and all the characters ultimately feel them. Those themes are still baked into this ‘Gatsby,’ but the true draw is the party, to get swept up in a bygone era at its most lavish, liquored, and loose-limbed.”
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New York Daily News
June 25th, 2023

“This is an inventive and intriguingly populist new staging of an iconic novel that already has informed all manner of adaptations. Here, it is genuinely hard to tell the actors from the customers, only the elegant design of Vanessa Leuck’s costumes offers a meaningful distinction.”
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Theater Pizzazz
June 28th, 2023

“The gathering’s raison d’etre is a theatrical experience—called ‘The Great Gatsby-The Immersive Show.’ Sadly, it pains me to report that director-adaptor Alexander Wright has done less-than-full justice to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic American novel—and that no amount of atmosphere changes that central fact.”
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T
July 2nd, 2023

"For a light, frothy evening out, this immersive show is your ticket, but don’t expect anything to last longer than the bubbles in the champagne they’re selling. Try reading the book."
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