This fast-paced, funny night of comedy made Boom Chicago famous! Our top cast makes you (and themselves) laugh while waiters bring drinks to your table. It’s a great night out!
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“An hilarious, sadistic, participatory cult classic” Neil Patrick Harris
“NOT TO BE MISSED” Guardian UK
Nominated: Best International Act, New Zealand International Comedy Fest 2025
YOU AWAKE TO FIND YOURSELF IN A DARK ROOM! Come watch and play The Dark Room – the interactive comedy* that mixes high-energy improv with videogaming into one deranged comedy gameshow! After a SOLD OUT Edinburgh Fringe 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024, The Dark Room returns to Boom Chicago for the first time since 2015!
How does it work? The lights go down – and the overlord of improv John Robertson appears dressed as a videogame boss. Four options appear on the screen, and selected crowd members call out the options they want to try to escape The Dark
Room! Or die trying! Will you:
A. Find Light Switch?
B. Check pockets?
C. Czech pockets?
THE DARK ROOM has toured the planet since 2012, gained millions of views on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube and this is its first time back in Amsterdam in 10 years!
“A Rocky Horror for nerds… reader, I howled” ★★★★ Daily Telegraph, London
*It’s interactive in the sense that he only plays with people who want to be played with. If you just want to sit and watch other people die, that’s perfect!
CHECK IT OUT RIGHT HERE:
Insta: @Mr_Dark_Room
TikTok: @RobbotronTwitch
YouTube: @Robbotron
And everything else: thejohnrobertson.com