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.

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.

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Secret is way beyond the usual brand of magic”

“★★★★ 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”

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”

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

“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.”