ROOM 204, premiering Thursday, September 18 inside a Walker Hotel 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 almost in the audience's laps.
ROOM 204 stars Anjelica Fellini (Teenage Bounty Hunters, The French Dispatch) and Dennis Flanagan (Ozark, American Rust) in a loose adaptation of William Gibson'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 alum Taylor Massa.
The production marks the debut outing for Zusammen Theatre Project, a new, female-led collective dedicated to transforming 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’s no such thing as the back row when you’re pressed against the wallpaper. That also means the "turn your cell phones off" rule is more important than ever.
Zusammen’s work is also an answer to Broadway’s ballooning ticket prices and the paradox of live theater’s accessibility problem. By taking the work into unconventional, donated spaces, they’re betting on a future where audiences don’t just consume theater but inhabit it. Tickets are limited, the space is tighter than your first NYC studio—and that’s the point. If you want to see theater that doesn't feel produced by committee, grab your spot before the room fills up.
ROOM 204 runs Thursdays, September 18–November 13, at Walker Hotel Greenwich Village.
Written by Mark Peikert
