Guide to the Penn & Teller 50th Anniversary Tour at Radio City Music Hall

The Emmy and Obie Award-winning duo comes to the famed venue to celebrate five decades of making magic and illusions.

Joe DziemianowiczJuly 10, 2025, 04:00

Watch closely and don’t blink! You’ll want to be all eyes during the Penn & Teller 50th Anniversary Tour, the newest production from the celebrated mavericks of magic known for their unique blend of illusion, comedy, skepticism, and social commentary.

Penn Jillette, the tall, talkative frontman, and Teller, the silent and mysterious partner, have been performing together since the mid-1970s. Together they’ve built one of the longest-lasting and most distinctive careers in show business.

This touring show celebrates their career, with an NYC stop at the storied Radio City Music Hall in August. Learn more about the event, and then make your tickets appear on New York Theatre Guide.

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What is the Penn & Teller 50th Anniversary Tour about?

Penn and Teller’s latest live show offers a high‑energy blend of comedy, audience participation, and thought-provoking, how’d-they-do-that trickery that’s become their signature. The show culminates in a finale built to wow.

Where in NYC is the Penn & Teller 50th Anniversary Tour performing?

Penn and Teller perform on August 22, 2025 at at Radio City Music Hall, located next to Rockefeller Center in midtown Manhattan. The over-6,000-seat venue’s Art Deco grandeur and soaring proscenium add dazzle to every performer's act. No oversized bags are allowed. The venue is accessible, with specific services and offerings listed on the Radio City website.

What is the run time of the Penn & Teller: 50th Anniversary Tour?

The show runs approximately 100 minutes without an intermission. So, the performance unfolds — poof! — as a nonstop stream of wonder and wit.

What is the age recommendation for the Penn & Teller 50th Anniversary Tour?

Based on the information available, there is no official age restriction for attending Penn & Teller at Radio City Music Hall. However, the venue suggests that guests under 18 years old be accompanied by a parent or guardian.

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What kinds of magic do Penn & Teller perform?

Known for being daring, provocative, and hilarious, the duo has been called “The Bad Boys of Magic,” thanks to their signature transparency and how they showcase honesty in illusion. Penn has been known to admit, “This is a trick.” Their shows blend offbeat magic and sleight of hand, kicky comedy, and endearing missteps.

What can I expect at a Penn & Teller show?

The Penn & Teller brand is a mix of mindful misdirection, comedic timing, and controlled chaos. Their 50th Anniversary Tour gets off to a brainy, buzzy start in a bit that combines the “crowd wisdom” theory of statistician Francis Galton (P&T always give credit where it’s due) and a jar of jellybeans. A later routine features a bowl of soup and a gorilla (you read that right).

The show relies on audience involvement, drawing volunteers on stage for tricks and emphasizing that they don't employ any audience plants. Play your cards right, and you could be in the production!

Who else will be performing at the Penn & Teller 50th Anniversary Tour?

Penn & Teller announced that the acclaimed dance group Pilobolus will make a special appearance before their NYC performance. “We’ve worked with Pilobolus before,” said Jillette in a statement. “We’ve written magic tricks with them to do in their dance performances. They’ve never asked us to dance, and we don’t know what’s in store when we get together onstage at Radio City Music Hall. We should probably tell them that we never made it as Rockettes.”

Have Penn & Teller performed live in NYC before?

Since bursting on the scene 50 years ago, Penn & Teller have been regulars in NYC. “New York meant everything to us,” Jillette has said. Their 1985 Off-Broadway debut, a show titled Penn & Teller, earned them a Special Citation at the Obie Awards and helped pave the way to their Emmy-winning TV special Penn & Teller Go Public.

Penn & Teller also played on Broadway in 1987, 1991, and, most recently, 2015. In a review for that show, New York Theatre Guide’s critic called the pair “a thinking person’s magic act [...] equally adept at pulling a rabbit from a hat [and] a thought from an audience member's mind.”