Escape rooms get an upgrade into a deeper theatrical show

NEW YORK (AP) — You meet in a nondescript reception room in a midtown Manhattan skyscraper. You’re handed a form on a clipboard. Then the receptionist slips away and the doors lock — and all hell breaks loose.
Within an hour, you and your group will have searched for clues in drawers and bookcases to get free, crawled through a ventilation shaft and encountered a woman dangling from a meat hook.
“Paradiso: Chapter 1” fuses the traditional escape room game with theat