This World Premiere played to sold-out houses during the 2013 Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts.

In a unique twist, the audience joined Houdini onstage to face the empty theater seats. A mysterious magician’s assistant and her two fellow apparitions lead Houdini into the afterlife, as his life flashes before his eyes like the old circuit vaudeville shows he used to play. Fighting to make good on his promise to his wife, Houdini tries to escape the boundaries of death, proving once and for all the presence of an afterlife. But not even the world’s greatest escape artist cannot escape death.