SOMETHING WICKED
THIS WAY SOUNDS

Audible Theater’s immersive headphone
horror transforms the oldest ghost story
trick into a chilling theatrical experience

Imagine listening to an audiobook through headphones when the story begins listening back. That’s the unnerving premise behind A Ghost in Your Ear, the acclaimed London horror hit making its American premiere this fall at Audible Theater’s Minetta Lane Theatre.

Jamie Armitage (photo by Kayt Webster-Brown)

Written and directed by Tony Award nominee Jamie Armitage (SIX: The Musical) in collaboration with acclaimed sound designers Ben & Max Ringham, A Ghost in Your Ear transforms an ordinary audiobook recording session into a chilling descent into the supernatural. As an actor arrives late to record a ghost story, the line between fiction and reality steadily dissolves, with the horrors escaping the page and invading the recording studio itself.

Max and Ben Ringham

What sets this production apart is its innovative use of binaural sound technology. Every audience member wears headphones, placing them directly inside the story through three-dimensional audio that promises an experience unlike conventional theater. The production arrives in New York after a sold-out engagement at London’s Hampstead Theatre, where critics hailed it as “truly terrifying headphone horror” (The Guardian) and “high-tech horror that gets under the skin” (Financial Times).

Ben Jacobs

Audible Theater has quickly become one of New York’s most adventurous producing organizations, embracing works that blur the boundaries between live performance and immersive audio storytelling. A Ghost in Your Ear continues that mission, offering audiences not simply a ghost story, but a theatrical experiment in how sound alone can manipulate fear, suspense, and imagination. Better still, after its stage run, the production will be recorded and released worldwide as an Audible Original, allowing listeners everywhere to experience its haunting soundscape.

For anyone who believes the scariest things are often the ones we hear rather than see, A Ghost in Your Ear may be one of the season’s most intriguing—and unsettling—theatrical events.

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A Ghost in Your Ear
Audible Theater
Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre, 18 Minetta Lane in New York
plays September 29 – November 15, 2026
for tickets, visit A Ghost in Your Ear

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