Life And Trust is a historic bank that has bankrolled New York’s greatest innovations for centuries. Located in the beating heart of New York’s Financial District, Life And Trust guards the secrets of the rich and powerful within its walls. For those who wish to pull back the curtain on American ambition, Life And Trust offers a rare opportunity to discover the value— and the cost— of cherished dreams and desires. If you long to know your worth— and better yet, to earn it— enter Life And Trust’s timeless vaults for a chance at freedom, abundance, and immortality.
Emursive produces immersive experiences in extraordinary places. As proprietors of The McKittrick Hotel and Conwell Tower, Emursive produces the award-winning Sleep No More, the highly anticipated Life And Trust, and the mind-bending Speakeasy Magick. Emursive also produces numerous live concerts, intimate music festivals, showstopping events, and spectacular themed holiday celebrations at Gallow Green, The Club Car, Manderley Bar, Conwell Coffee Hall, and The Overlook Bar.
You can skip the gym the day you take in the new show from Emursive, the enterprising theater company behind the long-running (more than twelve years) immersive show Sleep No More. For their newest production, they’ve pulled out the stops, providing an experience that, if it can’t quite be described as theater, is certainly…something. Bigger, more lavish and clearly more ambitious than Sleep No More, Life and Trust is also something of an endurance contest, lasting three hours and taking place on six floors of a financial district skyscraper. By the time you’ve finished attempting to follow its thirty characters involved in 250 overlapping scenes, you’ll have more than put in your steps.
Even if you offer a condemnation of the American Dream, the selling point of each is the fun stuff that the Devil offers: the surface-level Jazz Age aesthetics, the thrill of a good party. Avarice is hard to lampoon when you’re also selling themed drinks. Since Gatsby’s copyright has expired, I was surprised that Life and Trust didn’t take the opportunity to write those characters into a few scenes, too — though you might consider J.G. Conwell’s initials.
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| Year | Ceremony | Category | Nominee |
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| 2025 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Scenic Design of a Play | Gabriel Hainer Evansohn |
| 2025 | Drama Desk Awards | Outstanding Scenic Design of a Play | Grace Laubacher |
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