Chicago’s own Levi Holloway has established himself as a leader in the horror-theater genre — yes, it’s a thing. But what’s great about “Paranormal Activity” — the U.S. premiere now at Chicago Shakespeare Theater and soon headed to Los Angeles, Washington D.C. and San Francisco — is that this genre specialist has been paired with Felix Barrett. Barrett is the immersive maestro of the British company Punchdrunk and an artist demonstrably skilled in making audiences feel like they have been trapped in a pitch black room with a demon and cannot get out.

So it goes with “Paranormal Activity,” a show based on the Paramount Pictures movie franchise, which specializes in horror in intimate, domestic settings. The live stage version can’t repeat old plots of course, so it comes with a fresh story

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