The Jury Experience in Los Angeles

The Jury Experience is a piece of courtroom theatre that Fever produces itself, and the audience is the jury. You arrive, staff show you to a seat in the zone you paid for, and the theatre becomes the courtroom. A judge presides, the two sides argue, witnesses give evidence and are cross-examined. Fever says its cases are inspired by true events and built to twist, and the trial runs for 60 minutes.

The Los Angeles case is The Deadly Boat Ride. On a summer night the son of a powerful politician takes the wheel of the family speedboat with an ex-lover and old friends aboard. Hours later one is dead, one is in a coma and the son faces a murder charge. Was it jealous rage, or is there more to it? That is the question put to the room.

The audience does the deciding. Fever says you vote at key moments, that those votes shape hidden angles in the case so that every show is different, and that the final vote is the verdict: guilty or not guilty. How you vote depends on the venue. The Jury Experience’s own site says it is either a QR code shown in the room, which opens a voting page on your phone, or a paddle you raise when the judge asks. Phones stay on silent otherwise, and photos are for the curtain call, without flash.

It plays the Glorya Kaufman Performing Arts Center, a 299-seat theatre on the Vista Del Mar campus at 3200 Motor Avenue, used for dance, music, theatre and film. On 11 November 2026 Fever had four dates on sale, each with shows at 16:00 and 18:30: Saturday 14 November and Saturday 5 December 2026, Saturday 23 January and Sunday 21 February 2027. It holds 4.4 from 115 reviews on Fever on 11 November 2026, with reviewers praising the acting and how much the audience is involved. Ages are 12 and over, with under-16s accompanied by an adult.

Los Angeles has plenty to watch; this is the one of our pages where the audience decides the ending. It is a Fever Original, so Fever is the only place to book: the listing says tickets are sold only in the Fever app and on its website, not at the door. It holds 4.4 from 115 reviews on Fever on 11 November 2026, it is an hour long, and with shows at 16:00 and 18:30 it leaves the evening free for dinner.

The date we would book is Saturday 5 December 2026, the cheapest of the four in every zone: Zone D 42.12 dollars, Zone C 50.76, Zone B 56.70 and Zone A 65.34, all with fees. The zone we would book is Zone C. Fever grades the views itself: Front Row best, Zone A great, Zone B and Zone C both good, Zone D fair. Zone C therefore buys the same grade of view as Zone B for about 6 dollars less, and it is 8.64 dollars more than Zone D for a step up from fair to good. Front Row was sold out on 5 December when we read the listing, and Zones A and B were sold out on 14 November.

It suits a stay on the Westside. Shutters on the Beach and Santa Monica Proper Hotel are 9 and 10 minutes away by taxi without traffic, and The Beverly Hills Hotel is 12. From Malibu Beach Inn it is 27 minutes and from Terranea Resort 43.

If you would sooner sit back than vote, our page on Candlelight concerts covers the string-quartet tributes, and Black Rabbit Rose, the magic bar in Hollywood, is the later, livelier night with drinks. With children under 12, who are not admitted here, see our page on the Superman Experience at Warner Bros.