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The McKittrick Hotel (also known as The McKittrick) is a performing arts venue themed as a 1930's hotel in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City. It is located at 530 West 27th Street and is best known as the setting of the immersive theater production Sleep No More. It has also featured a bar and dining space known as Gallow Green on the roof, a restaurant called The Heath on the sixth floor, and the Manderley Bar on the second floor. In addition to Sleep No More, it has been used as a venue for a number of parties, performances, and special events.

The venue's name is a reference to the Alfred Hitchcock film Vertigo.

Location and theming

The McKittrick spans roughly 100,000 square feet (9,300 square meters) across three adjoining warehouses. There are six stories and around a hundred rooms. This space was used as part of several nightclubs including Twilo and Guesthouse before being converted into the McKittrick in 2011.

The McKittrick was never a functioning hotel, but Emursive, the producers of Sleep No More and many of the other events at the venue, have created a fictitious history for it. According to its official website, the McKittrick was built in 1939 to be New York's "most decadent" hotel but was shut down two days after the outbreak of World War II (six weeks before the hotel's scheduled opening). While not all areas of the venue reflect a hotel theming, they generally maintain a 1930's noir aesthetic.

Programs and events

The McKittrick is primarily used as the set for Sleep No More, a retelling of William Shakespeare's play Macbeth with additional elements from the Paisley witch trials and the films of Alfred Hitchcock. It spans all six floors of the space and is famous for its distinctive masks that audience members are expected to wear as well as its immersive elements. Sleep No More opened on March 7, 2011 and is expected to close on January 25, 2025. It has won numerous awards, including the 2011 Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience and special citations for its production company Punchdrunk at the 2011 Obie Awards for design and choreography.

Since its opening in 2011, the McKittrick has also hosted a wide range of parties and limited-time events, including:

• Hypnotique, a burlesque show
• The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, a partnership with the National Theater of Scotland which brought David Greig's musical to The Heath
• SuperCinema, a series of parties inspired by movies such as Clue and The Great Gatsby
• Bartschland Follies, a late-night show headed by Susanne Bartsch involving a mix of cabaret and burlesque.
• Inferno, a Halloween-themed party
• APPARITIONS, a three-night series of parties scheduled for January 2025 to bid farewell to the New York production of Sleep No More and the McKittrick

Spaces

The McKittrick consists of three main spaces: the Manderley bar, the Sleep No More set, and the top floor/rooftop space used for Gallow Green and The Heath.

See also

• Sleep No More
• Punchdrunk

References

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