Take Me Back to Manderley
I have been waiting over ten years to see Sleep No More and finally got to experience it last weekend on one of its final extensions. I live across the country but have been following this show and...
View ArticleThe Everlasting Dream
For months a close friend kept talking about this show that she had seen a bunch of times called Sleep No More. I had never heard of it. By chance last June she asked me if I wanted to go. Well, I like...
View Articlea dream come true
after doing my research for the better part of 6 years, i was finally able to make my reservation in january. i was going solo, and it was exactly how i imagined it. more than anything, this is an...
View ArticleDances of the dark
As I entered the McKittrick I clung to my father’s arm at the age of fourteen with a red ribbon drawn around my neck, not knowing what was in store. I stepped into the stairwell listening only to my...
View ArticleLike Moving Through a Dream
My first visit to the McKittrick was actually quite recent. Fresh out of my first breakup, my heart hurting and wanting to do something special for myself, I spontaneously booked a solo trip across the...
View ArticleHere comes Malcolm Twitter…
The McKittrick is home to a deliriously wonderful set of mysterious residents whose stories we return to see again and again. Most frequenters will have a favourite resident. Mine, infamously, is one...
View ArticleA Treasure House of Passion and Secrets and Love
I first visited the show in 2012 with my ex-partner. We were instantly obsessed. Desperate to lay bare its mysteries, we returned again and again, unravelling its secrets and piecing together its...
View ArticleForever changed, Forever Grateful
From the moment you step into Manderley you should know you’re in for a spellbinding, life-changing experience. Nothing is expected and everything is so wonderful. From those quiet moments exploring on...
View ArticleI can’t express
If I could, I would tirelessly write a damn novel about what the McKittrick means to me. But all I have to say is this. Thank you for the tears, the laughter, the dark halls, the flashing strobe...
View ArticleWhere Do You Find Art?
On one of my last visits to the McKittrick, I was in conversation with one of my favorite residents, the lovely Evelyn in the bar, and she asked me “where do you find art not on stage?” She followed by...
View ArticleI Left My Heart at The McKittrick
There’s only one thing about my Sleep No More experience that I wish I could change: I wish I’d heard about it sooner. It’s a dark world, but live performance and art help remind me of the collective...
View ArticleThe Matron
I race through the maze bathed in blue light, exhilarated at the isolation of the near-empty room, then I stumbled upon a few people, standing utterly still, facing the corner. I turn and see the hut....
View ArticleThank You Note
I just wanted to write a thank you note to the performers. To put it briefly, you’ve given me a taste of an feeling that I now crave so horribly and continuously that the only way I can think of...
View ArticleMy Dearest McKittrick Hotel
My Dearest McKittrick Hotel, I have never experienced anything quite as wondrous as the moment I stepped into the lobby of the McKittrick Hotel. I knew I was in for an extraordinary experience as soon...
View ArticleI Hope This Place Changes You
I first found the McKittrick Hotel in December 2023. What I thought would be a single visit turned into a whirlwind I never anticipated, and I have returned again and again. Every time I step inside...
View Articleon facing my fears
I was a scared kid. Even as a teenager, I worried about the dark, fires, murderers…the list goes on. When my parents first visited the McKittrick, they told me all about it – the mystery, the stories,...
View ArticlePurely Magical
My Dearest McKittrick, I’ve never met a temptress quite as alluring as you. Every time I visit, I discover something new and exciting: sometimes it’s a scene I’d never come across before; or it might...
View ArticleA Favourite Haunting
Last night I found myself in the dim lights of Gallow’s Green without a soul in sight. For a magical moment I felt terribly, wonderfully alone. I was truly unseen, a wandering ghost roaming a hollow...
View ArticleTime to Sleep
Forever grateful for the magic, and love you’ve given New Yorkers and millions of others for over a decade. You’ve changed how we look at art—you’ve created an incredible hunger for more. Now, it’s...
View ArticleIt hurts, it lingers
Exactly 6 months have passed since I, too, slept no more. Realising that I will only ever once set foot in the smoky shadows of the Mckittrick is poetic, sure, but also ever so depressing; I only got...
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