"IT'S GOING TO HIT BIG - and deservedly so."

The Wall Street Journal

Thrilling. Ivo van Hove's staging is electrifying.

Time Out

A total Triumph. Bryan Cranston is magnetic.

The Guardian

“Secret is way beyond the usual brand of magic”

The Wrap

At a cultural moment when the idea of “owning the narrative” has become the cliche du jour, he boldly posits that the stories we tell ourselves are precisely what limit our perceptions.

Ben Brantley New York Times

Brown will “astonish, and perhaps scare the crap out of, you. If you need to know how it’s done, you have my deepest sympathy”

Deadline

"Make no mistake, Secret has enough characters, story, conflict, emotion, surprises, and payoff to rival the output of any dramatist. To call this just a magic show or a mind-reading demonstration or a hypnotist act is to miss its artistry and intelligence."

TDF

★★★★ Brown oozes confidence and charisma, you can’t turn away. Secret is enough to make even the most hardened skeptic think twice.

Time Out

If you like your brains scrambled, or over easy, or poached or any way other than the way you usually carry them around, Derren Brown is the fella for you. Brown is a living rubik’s cube. he is the pied piper of possibility. He takes the magic that is theatre and kicks it into the stratosphere while you are watching and pulls an entire zoo out of his hat. Go see this show.

New York Theatre Guide

Secret is an intoxicating dream, a riddle, a game that makes one feel as if he’s stepped through the looking glass and taken on a trip for a couple of hours through a dizzying hall of wonders. Funny, bewildering, almost frightening, and even sometimes poignant, Brown redesigns what one should expect from a magic show.

StageBuddy

“A wild-eyed, “how’d he do that” romp. Derren Brown is self-effacing and enthused with coal-shovels full of charm”

HuffPost

"We gave it an A. Brown dumbfounds with a stunning colonnade of tricks, physical and psychological, limned by the sensation of third-rail danger. A thoughtful, nimble script - Secret is real magic."

Entertainment Weekly

“An astounding piece of psychological theater. Secret challenges audiences to look at the ways our personal mythology guides our lives. The first-act finale is as thrilling and mind-boggling as any of the great curtain-closers from the entire canon of American drama.”

TheaterMania

A Critics Pick! “An enthrallingly baffling show plunging into the deepest recesses of his volunteers’ thoughts, with results that have you slapping your forehead."

Ben Brantley The New York Times

You have probably never seen anything like Derren Brown. It’s so remarkable that you will think everyone in the audience is a plant, but I assure you, it’s all real. The UK’s most famous mentalist is going to blow your mind.

Broadway Box

“★★★★ Boy, is he a mind reader.  Brown sent people spilling back out into the lobby and on to the sidewalk and into the subway still quizzing each other.  Secret is a salutary reminder that even in a disenchanted age, some mysteries remain”

The Guardian

“SWEETLY, VIVACIOUSLY, IRRESISTIBLY GOOD! Boots off to director/choreographer JERRY MITCHELL!”

The Washington Post

“THE THEATRE VIBRATES LIKE A DANCE PARTY! CYNDI LAUPER knows how to SPREAD JOY! Her score has DRIVING ENERGY and an UPLIFTING SPIRIT. JERRY MITCHELL’s choreography is TERRIFIC!”

Variety

“THE VERY MODEL OF A MODERN MAJOR MUSICAL. It’s IRRESISTIBLE, with a HEART-STRONG cast. If you’ve been low, KINKY BOOTS may be just the thing to get you back on your feet!”

Time Out New York

“KINKY BOOTS STEPS UP and STANDS OUT! Proof that girls and boys everywhere DO JUST WANNA HAVE FUN!”

New York Magazine

“THE MOST TALKED-ABOUT SHOW ON BROADWAY! So much FUN, YOU’LL DANCE OUT OF THE THEATRE. YOU’VE GOT TO SEE IT. CYNDI LAUPER delivers the BEST BROADWAY SCORE IN YEARS!”

ABC News

“THE HOTTEST MUSICAL ON BROADWAY! INSPIRATIONAL AND HIGH-SPIRITED, KINKY BOOTS is an emotional button-pusher about finding your passion, overcoming prejudice and transcending stereotypes."

Ben Brantley The New York Times

“HARVEY FIERSTEIN kicks up MUSICAL COMEDY HEAVEN!”

Fox

“PERFECT for giving your out-of-town guests THE IDEAL BIG BROADWAY EXPERIENCE!”

The New York Observer

“SWEET and COLORFUL! A BIG OL’ LOVE STORY about sons, the families we make and red patent leather. HARVEY FIERSTEIN SPINS THEATRICAL MAGIC!”

Associated Press

“THE HOTTEST THING GOING ON RIGHT NOW!”

100.7 WHUD

“You’d be a HEEL not to have fun at KINKY BOOTS! It’s CAUSE FOR CELEBRATION!"

Entertainment Weekly

“DAZZLING and JOYOUS! This show is a reminder that both musicals and shoes can LIFT YOU UP!”

Daily News

“The Broadway show that EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT. KINKY BOOTS WILL HAVE YOU UP AND ASKING FOR MORE!”

Joe Causi CBS Radio

“An IMPECCABLE, MUST-SEE HIT! YOU ARE IN FOR SOMETHING SPECIAL. An INCREDIBLE night in the theatre.”

examiner.com

“It’s why the word FABULOUS was invented! BIG BROADWAY in the BEST WAY! A SPLASHY, BOUNCY, SMART show with a heart, beltable songs and hilarious numbers.”

The Philadelphia Inquirer

“Leaves you BREATHLESS. A GREAT EVENING TO REMEMBER!”

WOR Radio

"Nathan Lane all but sets fire to the stage."

Ben Brantley, The New York Times

"A summit of American screwball comedy!"

Time Out New York

"Jack O'Brien directs an impeccable revival that delights in the tasteless vulgarity of that fabled era."

Variety