EL SEGUNDO, Calif., USA, August 19, 2026 — Nine months after its North American premiere, “The Magicians Table” is proving to be more than a passing curiosity. The immersive close-up magic experience from Right Angle Entertainment opened at Blumenthal Arts’ Blume Studios in Charlotte, North Carolina, on November 19, 2025, and was extended twice before closing March 15, 2026. The production went on to play Boise’s Morrison Center for the Performing Arts from July 9 through August 16, and now arrives in Cleveland, Ohio, where Playhouse Square has already added four weeks to the engagement before a single ticket has been used, followed by a production opening October 21 at Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.
The US expansion mirrors the success of the unique show’s London, UK run where the production premiered at The Vaults Theatre in September 2024, has been extended five times since, and continues to play to delighted audiences. Positive reviews of the show include Marian Kennedy of LondonTheatre1.com naming it a “Must See” and calling the show, “a fabulous, fun and thrilling immersive magic show. Even for those who might think magic and illusions aren’t for them.”
The interactive show casts its audience as mourners at a wake. Dieter Roterberg, a fictional carnival owner and magician, has died, and the evening he designed for his own memorial unfolds exactly as he planned it, down to the seating chart and a stack of letters left for the occasion. His widow, Calliope, and a circle of his closest magician friends carry out his wishes across a pre-show cocktail lounge, where performers work the room with impromptu sleight of hand. Then the evening progresses to a cabaret-style main space, where table-side magic alternates with stage segments woven through with magic, mentalism, live music, and comedy.
Writer and magic director Iain Sharkey traces the premise to an unscripted brainstorm with Right Angle Entertainment, which wanted a close-up magic experience and got, instead, the outline of a memorial service. Sharkey, a longtime co-writer on Derren Brown’s stage shows, built the production alongside executive producers Alison Spiriti and Justin Sudds, Tom Greenwood-Mears, and director and designer Kevin Hammonds. For Hammonds, the assignment was to give audiences a stake in the show that a seat in a theater never could. “It’s everything you could ask for in a theatrical experience,” he said of the finished product.
The staging shifts with each city. Cleveland’s iteration fills a 12-table room at Cibréo Privato, Cibrèo Italian Kitchen’s private dining facility in the Playhouse Square arts district seating 144 guests. The Philadelphia production moves into the Kimmel Center’s SEI Innovation Studio. Both run roughly two hours and are built for adult audiences: Cleveland’s shows are 18 and older, with some Sunday performances open to younger guests by request, while Philadelphia follows the same baseline with an exception carved out for 1 p.m. Saturday matinees, open to guests 14 and older.
Cleveland tickets range from $90 to $150, and are on sale now through playhousesquare.org for the August 26–October 18 run. Philadelphia tickets are on sale now priced from $102 to $175, along with an exclusive Dieter’s Table for 12 experience at $2,381, through ensembleartsphilly.org for the October 21-November 22 run.
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