Variety
Alex McAleer Reads the Room
DATE
Mon 01 Jan - Fri 22 Oct 2027
VENUE
Woodville Studio
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Part mind reading. Part social experiment.
For nearly 20 years, Alex McAleer has studied people and perfected the art of knowing what’s going on
inside their heads. He isn’t claiming to be psychic. Though after a few minutes in a room with him, you
might start to wonder.
In Reads the Room, Alex explores connection and the remarkable ways we understand one another, often
without saying a word.
Through expert people-reading, psychological illusion and a playful sense of mischief, Alex turns every
audience into a live social experiment. Thoughts are uncovered, decisions are predicted, and complete
strangers find themselves revealing far more than they intended.
No two performances are ever the same. Every show is shaped by the people in the room, creating an
experience that’s funny, surprising, and impossible to forget.
You’ll laugh. You’ll question everything. You’ll leave wondering how much of your own mind is really your
own.
“Mind-blowing” — Broadway World
“McAleer has made a career of those you’ve-got-to-be-kidding-me moments” — Boston Globe
“Wonderfully warm” — Theatre Monkey
“Unnerving, impossible, but most of all entertaining” — Cultivated
“The best thing I’ve seen in theatre for a very long time” — North West End
