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Best Magic Shows in NYC
$25 to $240, and ten of these run two nights a week or fewer. Check the night first.
No magic room in the city publishes a happy hour — but two tickets include drinks, and one is BYOB.
- 17 verified shows
- 15 publish a price
- from $25
- 10 run ≤2 nights/week
The best magic shows in NYC right now are 69 Atlantic in Brooklyn Heights (the room magicians go to — a Dani DaOrtiz date sold out in 30 seconds), Chamber Magic (64 seats, jackets and ties, Fridays and Saturdays), Magic at the Clock Shop in Carroll Gardens (21 seats behind a working clock-repair shop, with a full bar in the room), Stand-Up Magic at The Gutter ($25, no drink minimum) and Magic After Hours, where they lock Tannen’s after closing and perform off the shelves. Two things to check before you book anything. First, the night: ten of these seventeen run two nights a week or fewer. Second, the address — the McKittrick Hotel has closed and Speakeasy Magick has moved, and a lot of guides still send you to a locked door.
The short version
- CheapestStand-Up Magic and Broadway Magic Hour, both $25 — and Stand-Up has no drink minimum.
- It movedThe McKittrick Hotel has closed. Speakeasy Magick is now at The Overlook Bar, 25 W 24th St.
- Magicians’ pick69 Atlantic in Brooklyn Heights. A Dani DaOrtiz date sold out in 30 seconds.
- Drinks includedOnly two: Magic, Unlocked ($79, a round) and Cloak & Mirrors ($193, two).
- Check the nightTen of seventeen run two nights a week or fewer. Two are Mondays only; one is monthly.
At a glance
The ticket price where one is published, the nights it actually runs, and whether a drink is included.
| Show | Ticket | When | Neighborhood | $ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stand-Up Magic | $25, no minimum | Alt. Sundays | Williamsburg | $$$ |
| Broadway Magic Hour | $25 + tax | Select Saturdays 2pm | Hell’s Kitchen | $$$ |
| Brooklyn Magic Shop | $45 family · $75 night | Sat 7pm, Sun 2pm | Carroll Gardens | $$$ |
| Magic in a Bottle | From $30 + 2-item min | Occasional Tuesdays | Chelsea | $$$ |
| 69 Atlantic | $125–$200 | Thu–Sat | Brooklyn Heights | $$$ |
| Chamber Magic | Dress code enforced | Fri & Sat only | Midtown East | $$$ |
| The Parlour of Deceptions | $95–$195 | Select weekends | Greenwich Village | $$$ |
| Urban Illusions | From $95, BYOB | Weekends only | East Village | $$$ |
| Magic After Hours | Not published (~$85) | 8pm, days TBC | Herald Square | $$$ |
| Monday Night Magic: Close-Up | $110 dinner + show | Mondays | Greenwich Village | $$$ |
| Magic at the Clock Shop | $75–$100 | Thu–Sat 7 & 10pm | Carroll Gardens | $$$ |
| Magic, Unlocked | $79, drinks included | Monthly, 7 & 9pm | Upper East Side | $$$ |
| Speakeasy Magick | From $240 | Tue–Sun, dark Mon | Flatiron | $$$ |
| Cloak & Mirrors | $193, two drinks in | Select evenings | Midtown East | $$$ |
| Jamie Allan’s Amaze | From $65 | Most nights, dark Tue | Hell’s Kitchen | $$$ |
| Monday Night Magic | $52.50–$99.50 + $20 min | Mondays only | NoMad | $$$ |
| The Magician | Not published | Not published | Columbus Circle | $$$ |
Map: where these 17 spots are
Midtown and the Village carry the long-running rooms. Brooklyn now has four, and one of them is the best in the city.
Pins are numbered to match the table above – tap any pin for the detail and directions.
Cheapest tickets
Four shows under $80, including two at $25. More cheap nights out in best comedy clubs in NYC.
Stand-Up Magic
$25 flat with no food or drink minimum — the cheapest real magic ticket in the five boroughs, and one of only three shows in this guide that does not stack a minimum on top of the ticket. It plays the back of The Gutter, a dive bar with eight vintage bowling lanes, which means the bar is open until 4am and the show is the start of your night rather than the whole of it. Two honest caveats: it runs every other Sunday, not weekly — and neither the start time nor the age policy is published on the show’s own site. Both live on the Eventbrite listing. The Gutter is a bar, so assume 21+ and confirm.
Broadway Magic Hour
$25 plus tax, general admission, at the Broadway Comedy Club on West 53rd — the cheapest real magic ticket in Manhattan and the only one on this page explicitly built for a family. Select Saturdays at 2pm from September through December 2026, with four December dates moving to 11am (19, 20, 27 and 29 December). Seating opens 30 to 45 minutes before showtime. Hosted by Jim Vines and Carl Mercurio. Two honest caveats: it is a 2pm matinee, not a night out — and it runs select Saturdays, not every one. It plays a comedy club, and while no drink minimum is published for this show, comedy-club matinees sometimes carry one. Confirm at the door.
Brooklyn Magic Shop
A family-owned magic shop with a real theater attached on the Cobble Hill/Carroll Gardens line, running exactly two shows a week: A Day of Magic on Sundays at 2pm, $45, recommended for ages 5 and up, and A Night of Magic on Saturdays at 7pm, $75, 13+. The family show runs an hour, the night show about 70 minutes. They also run classes and camps and sell tricks over the counter. The local move: it is a ten-minute walk from Magic at the Clock Shop on Court Street — the two make a genuine Brooklyn magic double. The honest caveat: two shows a week, both at the weekend. Nothing mid-week, and no bar in the room.
Magic in a Bottle
From $30, tied for the cheapest ticket in this guide, in The Loft at City Winery on Pier 57 — with a rotating cast of New York magicians working the tables before the stage show, which means arriving late costs you half the evening. Doors 6pm, show 7:30pm. Full wine, cocktail and food service at your table; dinner beforehand is bookable in the restaurant. Curated by David Corsaro. Two honest caveats: there is a two-item per person minimum on top of the ticket, and — the bigger one — there is no date on sale right now. This is an occasional Tuesday series rather than a residency. Get on the list rather than planning around it.
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Close-up and parlour rooms
Twenty to sixty-four seats, and the sleight of hand happens inches away. See also best speakeasies in NYC.
69 Atlantic
This is the room magicians themselves go to. Bloomberg reported in February 2026 that a seventh Dani DaOrtiz show sold out in 30 seconds, describing Taylor Swift-level fanaticism. It is programmed as short residencies by one visiting magician at a time rather than a standing show — Luis Otero 3–5 September, Rafael Benatar 10–12 September, Asi Wind 16–26 September (sold out) — inside Art of Play’s Brooklyn curiosity shop. It also runs Atlantic Fantastic, a three-day magic festival. Three honest caveats: 21+ on every show, prices sit on each performer’s own page rather than a standing card, and it goes dark all August. Get on the list.
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Chamber Magic
The most formal magic ticket in New York and the one that has been running longest — 64 seats in the Madison Room at the Lotte New York Palace, Fridays and Saturdays only, roughly 1 hour 45 minutes with no intermission and no late seating. The FAQ states the dress code plainly: cocktail attire, jackets and ties for gentlemen and dressy attire for ladies. Minimum age 12, and shows often sell out well in advance. The honest caveat, and it decides whether this is your evening: no beverages are permitted in the showroom, in the venue’s own words. Drink in the hotel’s bars before or after. If you want magic with a cocktail in your hand, this is the wrong ticket — see the bar magic section.
chambermagic.com · See our Midtown happy hours
The Parlour of Deceptions
Forty seats inside the Salmagundi Club, a Fifth Avenue art club that looks exactly like the Victorian salon this show wants to be in. Select Saturdays at 6pm and 8:30pm and Sundays at 4:30pm and 7pm — weekends only, and not every weekend. Cocktail attire is required, not suggested. 13+, though the material is written for adults. Two honest caveats: drinks are sold at the bar before the show only — nothing is served during it, and it is 21+ with photo ID to buy — and the building has no elevator, plus a flight of stairs to the front door. Sources disagree on capacity: the show and TDF say 40, Time Out says 50.
Urban Illusions
Twenty guests, seated close together in a basement below street level — and it is BYOB, because the only thing they pour is free black coffee (bottled water is sold at the door). That is either the most charming or the most inconvenient policy in this guide depending on how organised you are, and it is worth knowing before you arrive empty-handed. Fridays at 8pm, Saturdays at 7pm and 9:30pm, 85 minutes with no intermission, tickets from $95. Performer Hayden Childress has appeared on Penn & Teller: Fool Us. Recommended 18+. The honest caveat: weekends only, no weekday shows, and it is a basement with no elevator and no bar.
Magic After Hours
The best premise in New York magic: after closing, they lock Tannen’s — trading since 1925 and, in its own words, the nucleus of the northeastern magic scene — and about ten to sixteen people sit around a table under one light while the host performs items off the shop’s own shelves, including Tannen’s best sellers from the 1930s. Seventy minutes, no intermission, starting promptly at 8pm. 16+. Three honest caveats: Tannen’s publishes neither the ticket price nor the performance days on its own page — both live inside the OvationTix checkout — the shop door unlocks only 15 minutes before, and there is no bar.
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Monday Night Magic: Close-Up
The best-value dinner-and-show in this guide, and the pricing is unusually honest about it: $110 per person covers a three-course dinner, the show ticket, tax and gratuity — all of it, upstairs in the private dining room at Monte’s Trattoria. Magicians work your table between courses, before and after dinner. A show-only ticket is $60 plus a $25 food or beverage minimum. Mondays only, roughly 40 shows a year: doors and dining at 7:30pm, close-up from 8pm, the formal show around 9:15pm. The honest caveat: beverages are never included — the $110 covers food, tax and gratuity and nothing you order to drink.
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Magic with a drink in your hand
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Magic at the Clock Shop
Twenty-one seats hidden behind a working clock-repair storefront on Court Street, with a full cocktail bar inside the room — one of very few magic venues in the city where you actually drink while you watch, served courtesy of the adjacent Luana’s Tavern. The building was P.J. Hanley’s, which claims to be Brooklyn’s oldest bar, dating to 1874. 21+ only, stated in capitals. Thursday to Saturday plus select Wednesdays, at 7pm and 10pm, about 90 minutes. The honest caveat, and it changes the night: the two ticket tiers are not the same experience. “At The Table” seats you at the magician’s table; general admission puts you on a bar stool.
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Magic, Unlocked
One of only two tickets in this guide with drinks genuinely built into the price: $79 guarantees a table or bar-side seat and a round of drinks, in a working speakeasy hidden behind a fake locksmith shop on Second Avenue. Curated and hosted by Mark Clearview with a rotating lineup of magicians and mentalists. 21+, no exceptions. The honest caveat, and it is the whole planning problem: it runs one night a month, with 7pm and 9pm seatings, and the venue’s own page says shows sell out in minutes. If you are not on the mailing list you will never see a date go on sale. Sign up now and book later.
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Speakeasy Magick
Read this before you book anything: the show has moved, and the McKittrick Hotel has closed. Its own calendar page says so, and Sleep No More went with it. Speakeasy Magick now plays The Overlook Bar at 25 West 24th Street, not 542 West 27th — and half the roundups online still send you to a locked door. It runs six nights a week (dark Mondays) at 7pm, with a second 10pm show Friday and Saturday: two hours, a rotating roster of New York magicians working table to table while you drink, 21+ with no exceptions. The honest caveat: at “from $240” it is the most expensive close-up ticket in the city, and drinks are bought, not included.
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Cloak & Mirrors
$193, and it genuinely includes two drinks — the only ticket in this guide where the bar is not an extra line on the bill. About 90 minutes in the Turnbull Townhouse, from the team behind Bar Valentina’s magic programming, with a stated dress code of “jackets and dresses with personality.” Recommended 16+. Three honest caveats, and all three matter at this price: it is general admission with no reserved seats, all sales are final with no refunds, and there is no standing weekly night — dates go up on the Ticket Tailor calendar in batches. Get on the list rather than checking back hopefully.
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Big rooms and moving targets
One open run, one Monday institution, and one that publishes nothing. More in best burlesque shows in NYC.
Jamie Allan’s Amaze
The only big-theatre illusion show with an open run right now, extended through 31 January 2027, at New World Stages Stage Five — and, more usefully, the only show in this guide you can bring a seven-year-old to in the evening. Ages 5 and up; under-5s are not admitted at all. From $65. At 2 hours 15 minutes with an intermission it is by far the longest thing in this category. Tech-driven illusion built around theatrical storytelling. Two honest caveats: it is a proscenium show, not close-up — you watch from a seat, not from two feet away — and it is dark on Tuesdays, with a weekly pattern that moves. Check the calendar.
Monday Night Magic
Billed by its own producers as New York’s longest-running off-Broadway magic show, and it runs Mondays all year at The Cutting Room, with extra dates on MLK Day, Presidents Day, spring break, Columbus Day, Thanksgiving and New Year’s. Three published tiers: Preferred $52.50, Premium $79.50, VIP $99.50, with full bar and table service, tables seating 2 to 8. Age 8+, which makes it the most kid-tolerant of the grown-up rooms. Two honest caveats: there is a $20 food or beverage minimum per person on top of the ticket — budget it before you sit down — and skip the balcony, where seats are sold as partially obstructed.
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The Magician
Dan White’s show has left the NoMad Hotel — that run is over, and every guide still pointing you at a hotel bar in NoMad is out of date. It is now billed inside a “secret theater” at the Museum of Arts and Design. 18+. The honest caveat, and it is the whole card: almost nothing is published — no price, no showtimes, no run time — and tickets are sold through an email early-access list rather than a public on-sale calendar, with the show’s own page saying performances often sell out in minutes, over a month in advance. Join the list. The address here is the museum’s published one, not the show’s; confirm before you travel.
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NYC magic shows: FAQ
How much do magic shows cost in NYC?
From $25 to ’from $240’, based on published prices in August 2026. The floor is Stand-Up Magic at The Gutter in Williamsburg at $25 with no food or drink minimum, and Broadway Magic Hour at $25 plus tax. Magic in a Bottle starts at $30. In the middle: Magic, Unlocked at $79, Brooklyn Magic Shop at $45 family and $75 adult, Monday Night Magic from $52.50, and Urban Illusions from $95. At the top, Cloak & Mirrors is $193 and Speakeasy Magick is ’from $240’. Fifteen of the 17 shows verified for this guide publish a price.
Is Speakeasy Magick still at the McKittrick Hotel?
No. The McKittrick Hotel has closed – its own calendar page says so, and Sleep No More closed with it. Speakeasy Magick now plays The Overlook Bar at 25 West 24th Street in the Flatiron District, not 542 West 27th Street. A lot of current roundups still list the old address. Two other shows have also moved: The Magician left the NoMad Hotel for a theater inside the Museum of Arts and Design, and Gary Ferrar’s Nothing Here Is Real is retired, replaced by Cloak & Mirrors at the Turnbull Townhouse.
Which NYC magic shows include a drink?
Only two. Magic, Unlocked on the Upper East Side is $79 and guarantees a table or bar-side seat plus a round of drinks. Cloak & Mirrors is $193 and includes two complimentary drinks. Everywhere else you buy them separately, and several rooms stack a minimum on top of the ticket – $20 per person at Monday Night Magic, $25 on show-only tickets at the Close-Up show, and a two-item minimum at Magic in a Bottle. Chamber Magic bans drinks in the showroom outright, and Urban Illusions is BYOB with free black coffee.
Which magic shows in NYC are 21+?
Four are hard 21+ in their own words: Speakeasy Magick, Magic at the Clock Shop, Magic Unlocked and every show at 69 Atlantic. The Magician is 18+, Magic After Hours is 16+, Cloak & Mirrors recommends 16+, and Urban Illusions recommends 18+. At the other end, Jamie Allan’s Amaze admits ages 5 and up, Broadway Magic Hour is billed all-ages, Brooklyn Magic Shop’s Sunday family show is 5+, Monday Night Magic is 8+ and Chamber Magic sets a minimum of 12. Stand-Up Magic publishes no age policy but plays a bar.
Which NYC magic shows have a dress code?
Three. Chamber Magic enforces cocktail attire in its own words – ’jackets and ties for gentlemen and dressy attire for ladies’. The Parlour of Deceptions requires cocktail attire, stated as required rather than suggested. Cloak & Mirrors asks for ’jackets and dresses with personality’. Speakeasy Magick encourages guests to dress as they would for any special night out, but does not enforce it. Everywhere else has no published code.
Last updated: August 2026. Prices and hours change – confirm with the venue before you go. Spot something out of date? Let us know.
