June 8, 2017

"Every detail has been taken into consideration and the resulting experience could well be the best theatre you'll see this summer...Most intriguing is that it delves into the question of how Holmes might actually solve his cases in a roguishly handsome production that capitalizes on the unique attributes of its location and whip-smart abilities of its cast..."

May 2, 2017

The Midtown International Theatre Festival returns for another summer of quality stage works. New York's oldest continuing theater festival will present 100 plays in 23 days. MITF: Summer 2017. July 15 - Aug 6, 2017. The Jewel Box at the WorkShop Theater. 312 W.36th Street, NYC. WWW.MIDTOWNFESTIVAL.ORG

November 4, 2016

"Back in 2008, the creators of Unbound Productions - Jonathan Josephson, Paul Millet, and Jeff G. Rack - bet that audiences were ready for something different. That's when the trio began to explore adapting classical literature to create a new kind of immersive theatre no one had seen before. You know them better as the guys who produce Wicked Lit...HOLMES, SHERLOCK AND THE CONSULTING DETECTIVE, written by Josephson, weaves together three stories into a single narrative On November 5 & 6, the public will have an opportunity to experience it in an enhanced staged reading - complete with costumes - at the historic Santa Anita Train Depot, housed on the grounds of the Los Angeles County Arboretum."

October 11, 2016

Q:  What kind of theater excites you?

A:  ... I love having no idea if there are gunshots, strobe lights, more than six characters (or fewer), bad language or great language in a play before I see it. When I read a program before a show I only read the ads and then I go out of my way to patronize those businesses if I can. I love theatre that is tied into its physical community, it's neighborhood. I LOVE site-specific theatre when it's truly specific to the site; I love immersive theatre when it makes me feel and do and think things that I could never do from the seat of a chair. I love seeing, nay, feeling imagination come alive on stage - planets being plucked from the ceiling like apples or a dead daughter speaking to her grieving mother through a mystical red ball. I don't like living room sets, unless something or someone gets really trashed among the ottomans. I do like sets made of trash, especially when then ultimately reveal something counterintutive. I like bold design - sound, lights, costume, special effects, puppets, fights - all of it. I like noise and fireworks and magic tricks. "Bump it with a trumpet." "More frogs and dogs and bears and chickens and... and whatever!!" I like theatre that's fun - serious can be fun; tragic can be fun when it's fiction because having my thoughts provoked is fun, to me. I love a killer 11:00 number. I love a killer cameo or callback. I love an inside joke. I love being reminded that I know very little about most things and lots of other people know lots about many things. I love theatre that compels me to talk about it the whole ride home and think about it the next day. My best theatre experiences make me question if I'm even worthy to judge what I just saw, let alone try to make my own work come to life.

June 1, 2017

"Anyone familiar with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle expects nothing short of the impossible from his legendary creation through the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Fans will not be disappointed when Unbound Productions’ Mystery Lit staging of ‘Holmes, Sherlock and the Consulting Detective’ comes to the Los Angeles County Arboretum in Arcadia.  It will run for 19 performances between June 2 and July 1 in and around the Santa Anita Train Depot. Sponsored by the L.A. Arboretum Foundation, this immersive theatre event is a mash-up of three Sherlock Holmes cases, ‘A Scandal in Bohemia’, ‘The Red-Headed League’ and ‘The Adventure of the Copper Beaches’.  The 105-minute, two-act play is the first Mystery Lit event from  Unbound Productions, which creates the popular Wicked Lit series..."

March 17, 2017

I have a scene in The Box: Los Angeles, a Narrative Experiment in Late Night Theater, at Sacred Fools! MARCH 3 - 25, 2017. Fridays & Saturdays @ 11pm. From the Creators of Serial Killers! THE BOX: LOS ANGELES is an experiment in randomly generated narrative. Given a collection of characters and settings from which to choose, writers created fragments- small scenes and snippets that will then be put together randomly and performed each night. The hope is that a story will emerge - one that is dark, mysterious, and moving.

November 1, 2016

"Jonathan Josephson, Paul Millet and Jeff Rack are the creators of the perennially popular WICKED LIT in Altadena--a triptych of literary adaptations that provide an immersive twist on Halloween fun. The team, best known as Unbound Productions, sits down with host Noah Nelson in the Think Tank Podcast Studio to talk about this year's Wicked Lit, the history of the company, and the non-Spooky Season shenanigans they get up to...:

October 6, 2016

This week: Multimedia artist Miwa Matreyek collaborates and also goes solo at REDCAT. Plus, Tony winner Betty Buckley holds court at Segerstrom Center and Bob Eubanks shares fond memories of the Fab Four.

That Laurence Fishburne Play Staged reading of Jonathan Josephson’s comedy about a struggling playwright and his encounters with assorted celebrities. South Pasadena Women’s Club, 1424 Fremont Ave., South Pasadena. Sun., 3 p.m. Free. www.eventbrite.com

June 1, 2017

“There are three iconic Sherlock Holmes figures — one goes by the name of Holmes, one Sherlock and one is the consulting detective,” says Josephson, with a sly sense of mystery. “We can’t explain in advance without spoiling a big surprise but by the end of the play you’ll know why there are three of them...”

December 1, 2016

"Josephson's short play Grandpa and the Gay Rabbi was winner of the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Theater Festival. He had a 10-minute play at the Humana Festival, He is a five-time finalist for the Actors Theatre of Lousiville's Heideman Award, and a Finalist for the O'Neill National Playwright's Conference., 12 of his plays have been published. But even with some objectively impressive markers, he's still not sure he has 'emerged.;"

October 14, 2016

RECOMMENDED. Wicked Lit has made quite a name for itself over the past several years. At a time when both immersive theatre and Halloween entertainment are in vogue, Wicked Lit is in a prime spot to capitalize on both. Just the novelty of wandering through a graveyard and actual mausoleum would be enough to attract fans of the macabre. But Unbound Productions does not employ the common spook tactics of your run-of-the-mill haunt. Instead, audiences are shown three distinct short plays of high quality. This is theatre. This is horror. This is an event. And this is possibly the best thing you can do if you’re looking to take in a bit of dramatic art during the Halloween season.

September 15, 2016

"Award winning playwright and Executive Director of Unbound Productions, Jonathan Josephson, secured a spot in the upcoming Samuel French Short Play Anthology, by being one of six finalist in the Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival. He chats with me on the phone from Los Angeles. He talks about the inspiration of the piece, as well as, the ongoing happening with his theater company. 
Recorded at Hangar Studios September 13, 2016...."