When the word “immersive” is attached to a theater production, I usually react with skepticism, questioning whether such an approach will enhance or distract from the source material. Immersive theater, when done well, can be a powerful experience, as Albany Park Theater Project has repeatedly demonstrated, but the format also runs the risk of feeling gimmicky or awkward. Plus, in the wider entertainment world, the immersive trend is now so ubiquitous — from virtual reality riffs on Van Gogh’s paintings to renderings of Mozart’s world generated by artificial intelligence — that the word has almost lost all meaning.

How does Anton Chekhov’s “Three Sisters” fare under the immersive treatment? As staged by the Sandbox Theatre Collective, an off-Loop company founded in 2022, the results a

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