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Express Tribune
21-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
Zoe Kravitz and Austin Butler spark dating buzz after NYC theater outing
Zoe Kravitz and Austin Butler were spotted attending an immersive theater experience together in New York City, reigniting ongoing rumors of a real-life romance. The duo, who co-star in the upcoming film Caught Stealing, were seen at 'Viola's Room' by immersive theater group Punchdrunk at The Shed in Hudson Yards last weekend. Multiple sources confirmed the actors arrived and left the show together, accompanied by their Caught Stealing director Darren Aronofsky. The sighting adds new fuel to reports that Kravitz and Butler grew close during the filming of their movie, where they were seen kissing on set in October 2024. The rumors first emerged in April 2025, shortly after Kravitz ended her engagement to actor Channing Tatum following a three-year relationship. Butler also reportedly ended his long-term relationship with model Kaia Gerber around the same time. 'Viola's Room,' created by the team behind the popular show Sleep No More, is a dark, immersive experience that features a barefoot audience and narration by Helena Bonham Carter through headphones. Known for drawing celebrity attendees, the show's intimate format adds to the intrigue of Kravitz and Butler's joint appearance. While Butler's representative has previously denied any romantic involvement, neither star has addressed the rumors publicly. Their upcoming film, Caught Stealing, is based on the novel by Charlie Huston, who also wrote the screenplay. Butler plays a washed-up baseball player caught in the criminal underworld of 1990s New York. With public appearances like this adding to speculation, fans will be closely watching the duo as the film's release approaches.
Vogue
26-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Vogue
I Survived ‘Viola's Room,' a Spooky New Immersive Show Narrated by Helena Bonham Carter
The real world is plenty scary right now. Forget turning on some gruesome horror movie: reading the daily headlines is enough to make just about anyone scream. All the same, I couldn't resist doubling down on the fear factor and checking out an eerie, immersive new art experience that opened in New York City this week. On through October at The Shed, the show, titled Viola's Room, is directed by Felix Barrett and produced by Punchdrunk, the award-winning theater company behind Sleep No More. An interactive, hour-long journey, it has guests weave barefoot through a labyrinth of darkened rooms and halls (by designer Casey Jay Andrews), while a delightfully spooky Helena Bonham Carter narrates a fable, based on the 1901 story The Moon Slave by Barry Pain, through provided headphones. Even with no live actors or jump scares, it makes for an intensely effective—even somewhat poetic—haunted-house experience. Guests walk through Viola's Room. Photo: Marc J. Franklin When I arrived for my prescribed time slot, I was surprised to find that there was only one other brave soul in my group. (Viola's Room is designed to be experienced by no more than six people at a time.) Our instructions were simple enough: do not lose sight of each other, and follow the flickering lights from space to space. (I was more than happy to let my partner lead the way.) In the first space—a teenage girl's bedroom, its walls adorned with Tori Amos and Buffy the Vampire Slayer posters—Carter instructs us to lie down as she begins to tell the gothic tale of a princess who disappears from her castle, abandons her prince, and mysteriously journeys into the night. In time, the room around us was plunged into darkness, the only light coming from inside a blanketed fort in the corner. When, skeptically, we crawled into that fort, we immediately entered into a brand-new space: a maze of hallways lined with ghostly, draped white sheets. As Carter's narration goes on, she describes the princess's descent into an enchanted and ominous forest—just as we, too, were taken through ever more otherworldly settings. Walking barefoot, we traversed terrains that felt alternately grassy, sandy, and like concrete, our surroundings ranging from a forest landscape to a high-ceilinged chapel featuring stained-glass windows suffused with a foggy light. Another room with a giant dinner table had balloons lining the ceiling, though in the darkness their strings felt more like vines, or even spiderwebs.
