Paranormal Activity on Broadway
I'm going to keep this review brief, because to go into any detail would be to spoil the show...and this is a show you don't want spoiled. "Paranormal Activity" - a new, limited run Broadway play, is based on the successful film franchise which came to prominence by using the "Blair Witch" found footage technique, adding some well executed special effects, and taking the genre to a whole other level. How is that supposed to work onstage? Well, not in the same way a film does. But having the "creep" exist in the same room as you is becoming a successful theatrical formula in it's own right, and "Paranormal Activity" (on Broadway) executes it well. Travis A. Knight and Cher Álvarez. Photo by Matthew Murphy The basic (spoiler free) plot is this: Married couple James (Travis A. Knight) and Lou (Cher Álvarez) have just moved from the States to London following what was either a traumatizing paranormal experience by Lou, or Lou having a f...