Penn & Teller To Mark 50th Anniversary With One-Night-Only Radio City Music Hall Appearance

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EXCLUSIVE: Famed illusionists Penn & Teller will celebrate 50 years together with a one-night-only show at New York’s Radio City Music Hall this summer.

Set for Thursday August 21, the performance also will mark the 40th anniversary of the New York stage show that launched the duo into stardom. “We started our careers as street performers,” said Penn Jillette, “then we moved to Off Broadway’s Westside Theatre, then to Broadway and now we finally move to the other side of Sixth Avenue to bring our 50th anniversary tour to the iconic Radio City Music Hall.

If we keep moving eastward, we will eventually play the river.” The show will be produced by The Bowery Presents, Richard Frankel, Marc Routh, Steve Baruch, & Tom Viertel in association with Glenn S.

Alai. (Frankel, Routh, Viertel and Baruch are the same producing team who brought Penn & Teller to New York in 1985). Penn & Teller began performing their innovative magic-comedy act – performances that have celebrated illusion while occasionally deconstructing it – on the streets of Philadelphia, eventually moving to sold-out runs on Broadway.