Sleep No More Shanghai Closes August 30: The Last Weeks of a Ten-Year Legend (2026)

Sleep No More Shanghai closes on August 30, 2026, after ten years, 2,670 performances and more than 750,000 masked guests at the McKinnon Hotel, 1013 Beijing Xi Lu in Jing'an. Until then there is a full farewell season: themed limited runs, midnight special shows, two goodbye parties, and 拾梦画廊, a free ten-year memories exhibition open to the public from July 15. I have sent a lot of first-dates, visiting parents and jaded ten-year expats up those stairs, and the report back is always some version of the same sentence: nothing else in Shanghai feels like that. So consider this your polite, slightly urgent nudge. The clock now has a date on it. Why did Sleep No More matter so much to internationals in Shanghai? Because it never needed subtitles. The show, a co-creation between British company Punchdrunk and SMG Live, retells Macbeth inside a fictional 1930s Shanghai hotel, and it is told almost entirely through movement, music and obsessive set design rather than dialogue. Since its Asia premiere in December 2016 it has been the one piece of Chinese-made theatre you could send any visitor to, whatever language they spoke. The numbers behind the goodbye are genuinely startling…