A magic show built around cocktails, close-up card tricks and a fictional dead carnival owner's unfinished business has extended its run at Playhouse Square, with performances now scheduled at Cibréo Privato through October 18. Tickets for ‘The Magicians Table’ range from $90 to $150, and the show trades traditional theater seating for 12 tables spread across a room designed to feel like a private club.
The production, created by Right Angle Entertainment, follows the fictional carnival owner and magician Dieter Roterberg, whose widow Calliope tries to contact him from beyond the grave and honor his legacy, according to Cleveland.com. Calliope, along with Dieter's ward Ellis and a rotating cast of his magician friends, arrive at a pre-show inside Cibréo Italian Kitchen's private event venue, which is transformed into Dieter's warehouse before the night moves into his private club. Right Angle Entertainment, co-founded in 2014 by producers Alison Spiriti and Justin Sudds, has also built touring properties including Wheel of Fortune Live! and Clue: A Walking Mystery, per Right Angle Entertainment.
Kevin Hammonds created the close-up magic show with what the Cleveland.com report describes as a carnival-esque feel, and he directs and designs the production's inaugural North American tour. Audience members hold cards, serve as assistants and occasionally become part of the act, though the show does not force participation, the outlet notes. Calliope attempts to recreate Dieter's signature tricks as roving magicians work the room, and Hammonds said audiences increasingly want more agency with their theatrical experience.
A Rotating Cast Built for Local Flavor
The performance lineup varies from city to city, night to night and even table to table, drawing on a flexible roster of roughly 15 local and national illusionists — including performers who have appeared on Penn & Teller: Fool Us and at Hollywood's Magic Castle — according to BroadwayWorld. The magic ranges from sleight of hand and card tricks to mind-reading and misdirection, blended with live music, comedy and bespoke cocktails served table-side. Hammonds has said that guests often become friends while discussing the experience afterward.
Behind the narrative is BAFTA and Olivier Award-winning writer Iain Sharkey, who spent more than two decades co-writing stage shows and television specials with British illusionist Derren Brown, according to Ensemble Arts Philly. Brown himself has publicly endorsed the production, calling it “beautifully realised and huge huge fun,” a testimonial that featured prominently when Charlotte's Blumenthal Arts announced the show's North American debut.
From London Stage to a Converted Cleveland Theater
‘The Magicians Table’ premiered in London in 2024 before crossing the Atlantic, making its North American debut at Blume Studios in Charlotte, North Carolina, in November 2025 and running through February 2026, per Blumenthal Arts. From there it embarked on a national tour that has included stops in Tampa and Philadelphia ahead of its arrival in Cleveland.
In Cleveland, the show found its home at 1501 E. 14th St., inside Cibréo Privato — a Tuscan-themed private event space operated by Driftwood Restaurants and Catering that occupies the renovated former 14th Street Theatre and seats up to 165 guests, according to Driftwood Restaurants and Catering. The venue sits within Playhouse Square, which Hoodline has previously anchored as region's arts hub and which is recognized as the largest performing arts center in the country outside of New York City.
Playhouse Square announced in June that the Cleveland engagement would extend by four weeks, pushing the run from its original close date to October 18, a move that reflects strong advance ticket demand ahead of the show's official opening. The show is designed primarily as a 20-plus-minute cocktail-and-cabaret experience for adults 18 and older, though select matinees offer modified admission for guests 13 or 14 and up, per Ensemble Arts Philly's coverage of the tour.
A Growing Commercial Push Behind the Tour
Right Angle Entertainment created its first Vice President of Marketing and Revenue position this July, appointing live entertainment strategist Todd Rossi to oversee commercial strategy across the company's touring and immersive roster, according to a filing noted by the National Law Review. The hire underscores how producers are formalizing executive roles as multi-city, cocktail-driven magic shows expand their reach across North America.
The Cleveland run arrives amid a broader wave of intimate, hospitality-styled magic experiences drawing audiences away from traditional seat-and-stage theater. Hoodline has covered similar momentum elsewhere, including a sold-out Austin hotel magic show that also extended its run through October, and a Chicago venture that saw a $50 million magic mansion open its doors earlier this year. ‘The Magicians Table’ joins a season at Playhouse Square that Hoodline previously detailed as one of its most ambitious, with Potter, Phantom and other major touring productions rounding out the venue's 2026-2027 slate.
