They've Got Magic to Do! Penn & Teller Will Return to Broadway This Summer at the Marquis Theatre

Thirty years after their New York premiere and 40 years after they first started as a team, PENN & TELLER will return this summer for a strictly limited six-week engagement at the Marquis Theatre (46th Street between Broadway and 8th Avenue) from July 7 - August 16. Opening night will be announced. Tickets will go on sale on April 16th.

This will be a rare opportunity for New Yorkers and tourists to see Penn & Teller here; they will immediately return to their record-breaking Las Vegas run at The Rio at the end of the Broadway engagement. The Broadway engagement will include both elements of their Las Vegas show and classics from their repertoire.

About the return to Broadway, Penn Jillette said, "When I was born in Greenfield, Massachusetts, I felt I should have been in NYC, and when I moved there I was home. We loved being on Broadway. We love doing our show in Vegas, but even after all this time in Vegas . . . well, coming back to Broadway feels like we're coming home. Our hearts never left. Do they make Elmo costumes in my size?"

PENN & TELLER made their stunning off-Broadway debut in 1985 and first played Broadway in 1987. Following a national tour, they returned to Broadway in 1991 with The Refrigerator Tour which then moved off-Broadway. Their last New York stage appearance was a week-long engagement at the Beacon Theatre in 2000. Their numerous honors include an Obie Award, an Emmy, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The New York Times has called them "a matchless team of self-mocking sorcerers" and called their show "an iconoclastic assault on the temple of magic." WNEW-TV said "If there's any justice they should rot in hell. Until then, see them."

PENN & TELLER will be produced by Marc Routh, Richard Frankel, Tom Viertel and Steve Baruch, the same team that produced their New York stage debut, and each of their subsequent Broadway and off-Broadway engagements, Penn & Teller; Penn & Teller: The Refrigerator Tour; and Penn & Teller Rot in Hell.

For 40 years PENN & TELLER have defied labels-and at times physics and good taste-- by redefining the genre of magic and inventing their own very distinct niche in comedy. With sold out runs on Broadway, world tours, Emmy-winning TV specials and hundreds of outrageous appearances on everything from "Letterman" to "Fallon," "Friends" to "The Simpsons," "Modern Family" to "Top Chef," comedy's most enduring team shows no signs of slowing down.

With an amazing seven wins, including 2013, as "Las Vegas Magicians of the Year," their 14-year run at The Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino makes them the longest running and one of the most-beloved headline acts in Las Vegas history, outselling every other resident magician on The Strip.

Their acclaimed Showtime series, Penn & Teller: Bullshit! was nominated for 13 Emmys and is the longest-running series in the history of the network. The show tackled the fakes and frauds behind such topics as alien abduction, psychics and bottled water.

Currently they have two series airing on television: Penn & Teller: Fool Us! for The CW, on which up-and-comers and magic veterans try to fool Penn & Teller for a chance to star in the duo's hit Las Vegas stage show; and as judges on SyFy's Wizard Wars, where magicians are tasked with preparing a magic performance from ordinary everyday objects.

Along the way, they've written New York Times best-sellers, hosted their own Emmy nominated variety show for FX, starred in their own specials for ABC, NBC and Comedy Central and produced the critically lauded feature film documentary The Aristocrats. Their acclaimed documentary, Tim's Vermeer, follows Texas-based inventor Tim Jenison on his quest to discover the methods used by Dutch Master painter Johannes Vermeer. The Sony Pictures Classics film was nominated for a BAFTA and shortlisted for the 2014 Oscars.

As individuals, they are just as prolific. Teller directed versions of Macbeth and The Tempest that toured to raves from The New York Times and Wall Street Journal, co-wrote and directed the Off-Broadway thriller Play Dead and has written two books. Penn has written three books, including the New York Times Best Seller, "God No!," hosted the NBC game show Identity and donned his ballroom shoes for the 2008 season of ABC's hit Dancing With The Stars. Penn recently showed his business savvy on the past two seasons of NBC's All-Star Celebrity Apprentice.

Marc Routh, Richard Frankel, Tom Viertel and Steve Baruch (Producers) have produced and managed a wide range of productions since 1985 when they produced their first off Broadway production of PENN & TELLER at the 249-seat Westside Arts Theatre, the event that first brought "a couple of eccentric guys who have learned how to do a few cool things" to national attention. In the years since, their 80+ productions on and off-Broadway, on tour and in London and in Asia include Hairspray, The Producers, Angels in America, Driving Miss Daisy, Smokey Joe's Café, The Norman Conquests, A Little Night Music, Gypsy, Sweeney Todd, Company, Little Shop of Horrors, The Sound of Music, Love Letters, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, Old Jews Telling Jokes and Stomp. Their productions have been awarded 36 Tonys, 47 Drama Desk Awards, 38 Outer Critics Awards, 4 Grammys, 8 Olivier Awards and 2 Pulitzer Prizes. They have the rare distinction of having won Tony Awards in all four "Best" categories - play, musical, revival of a play and revival of a musical. They are the proud owners and operators of 54 Below, Broadway's nightclub, in New York City.

PENN & TELLER will play at the Marquis Theatre (46th Street between Broadway & 8th Avenue). Tickets will go on sale on April 16th.www.ticketmaster.com 877-250-2929.