Press
Millet Creative Media’s work across post-production and live theatre has drawn attention from artists, collaborators, and media outlets alike. Below you’ll find press coverage and features highlighting our creative work and partnerships.
Los Angeles Times - March 26, 2026
This L.A. play wants you to feel the story viscerally — by keeping you blindfolded
I am blindfolded and seated in a vintage armchair set in the center of a darkened, red-lit room with Gothic accents. An actor is performing nearby. I hear their voice, but cannot, of course, see them. I suddenly spring upward in my seat, alarmed at the touch of some sort of cloth — or perhaps a feather? — across my ankles.
Immersive Scene Los Angeles - March 26, 2026
REVIEW: Poe: Pulse & Pendulum
“Blindness can get in the way of business,” suggests a character in this Poe-inspired immersive. Not so in the intriguing production; in fact, it might even enhance it.
Stage Raw - March 24, 2026
REVIEW: Poe: Pulse & Pendulum
What better way to experience the macabre tales of the 19th century author Edgar Allan Poe than in the dark? In adapting two of his more familiar stories, this production dispenses blindfolds to audience members upon arrival, with instructions to cover their eyes once each play begins. Audience members are also advised that there will be “moments of incidental touch and smell during the performances” so you are forewarned. The performers’ voices, in tandem with the phenomenal sound design of Joseph “Sloe” Slawinski, and other chilling effects (things that go bump in the night) pay homage to one of America’s master storytellers.
NOHO Arts District - March 26, 2026
REVIEW: Poe: Pulse & Pendulum
This is absolutely the first time I have had a blindfold on to see a play. And when I say ‘see’ I do, of course, mean ‘not see.’ These productions of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Pit and The Pendulum and The Tell-Tale Heart are performed with the entire audience blindfolded.
Larchmont Buzz - March 26, 2026
‘Poe’: Choose Your Own Adventure - REVIEW
Edgar Allan Poe occupies a peculiar niche in the literary hall of fame. Through his short stories and poetry, he cemented a singular vision of the macabre, one which lent mystery to madness and cast a curious eye toward death. Nearly two centuries later, Theatre Obscura LA has taken up the challenge of translating these stories to the medium of live performance. An unconventional, immersive production, Poe: Pulse and Pendulum builds upon the meditative and imaginative state of the reading experience with theatrical flair.
LA Hidden Gems - April 8, 2026
Theatre Obscura LA’s “Poe: Pulse & Pendulum” closes this weekend at The Count’s Den, DTLA - REVIEW
It’s almost certain that pre-civil war-era Edgar Allan Poe, in his daze of ale and illicit drugs would never have dreamed of the popularity his work would one day attain. Being myself a former denizen of Richmond, VA, one of Poe’s favorite cities, and after visiting his gravesite in Baltimore, Maryland during the pandemic, I have seen first-hand, that the curators and caretakers of the works, life, and mystery that is Edgar Allan Poe, are still busy keeping his legacy and writings thriving and well-produced in today’s dark and dystopian world. With his nightmarishly colored prose and vividly etched imagery however, Poe’s works are almost too beautiful to compare with the modern horrors of our often uncertain, psychologically bristled society. Still, you will always find a stratum of the people who wish to escape, ever-so briefly, into the romantically gothic and vividly splattered stories of the true master of horror. In the United States alone, there are somewhere around 250 Poe-ductions, currently having runs of some sort.
DTLA Weekly - March 17, 2026
Edgar Allan Poe Gets Even Darker at The Count's Den with Theatre Obscura L.A.
In a city known for spectacle and stagecraft, a new theatrical experience in downtown Los Angeles is stripping performance down to its most primal elements: sound, imagination, and fear. “Poe: Pulse and Pendulum,” presented by Theatre Obscura LA, invites audiences to experience two of Edgar Allan Poe’s most haunting tales in a way few have ever encountered them before—completely in the dark.
What the Butler Saw - February 16, 2026
A Conversation with Director Paul Millet
Theatre strips away sight to sharpen the senses. Paul Millet’s Poe: Pulse and Pendulum promises to demonstrate this principle with unsettling precision. Audiences arrive at The Count’s Den, don blindfolds, and surrender to total darkness while two Edgar Allan Poe adaptations unfold entirely through sound and spatial suggestion. The Tell-Tale Heart and The Pit & the Pendulum exist only as voices, footsteps, breathing. The premise raises questions about theatrical immersion that extend beyond novelty. When vision vanishes, what replaces it?
ThisFunktional - March 16, 2026
Video Interview with Gabrieal Griego & Paul Millet
Jesus Figueroa, @Thisfunktional of ThisFunktional.com, talks with co-directors Gabrieal Griego and Paul Millet about Theatre Obscura LA’s POE: PULSE AND PENDULUM, performances starting March 20 at The Count’s Den in Los Angeles.
Stage Fright Theatre - March 22, 2026
Short Video Featurette
The audience is blindfolded for the entire show.
And Finally.... The Daily Mail - March 31, 2026
(Yes, the British Tabloid! - Enjoy!)
Tabloid Feature!
A theater in Los Angeles is charging $60 for audience members to be blindfolded for the whole performance in a bizarre new experience. A debut show, titled ‘Poe: Pulse & Pendulum,’ offered theatergoers a whole new experience – letting them pay $63.80 to see nothing at all.