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The McKittrick Hotel

To Do Sunday: Eat No More

The McKittrick Hotel, staging ground for the theatrical experience Sleep No More, has branched out ever-so-slightly: tonight brings another immersive and interactive jaunt through the space, but one with food being served! The website Underground Eats celebrates its launch with Absurdity at the McKittrick, an evening taking as its setting the 1939 World’s Fair during which Read More

After-party report

Sleep No More castmember Omagbitse Omagbemi before the dirty, sexy carnage. (Robin Roemer Photography)

A Bloody Good Time at Sleep No More‘s McKittrick May Fair

Rounding the corner of 27th street last night, a spectral scene materialized. Droves of revelers, all clad in white, were awaiting entrance to the McKittrick Hotel, the unlikely site of Sleep No More, the orgy-enactment of Macbeth, where we also spent New Year’s Eve. The phalynx of colorless merrymakers, a boisterous, poltergeist crew, was gathering for the theater’s one-night-only post-performance May Fair bash. Read More

Book Parties

Piper Perabo reads from "Solace." (Christopher Gabello/Interview Magazine)

Secret Sunday Salon at the McKittrick Hotel Launches Jay McInerney’s “Solace” and New Literary Series

The first sign that something strange was going on at The Forgotten, a new salon series literary doyenne Brooke Geahan kicked off Sunday night, was the ratio of hostesses to attendees.

We had come to hear a reading of “Solace,” a new short story by Jay McInerney put out by Ms. Geahan’s soundtrack-augmented e-book house, Booktrack. But the number of pretty, young female attendants on hand made it feel more gentlemen’s club than book club. Read More