HOUDINI SPEAKS TO THE LIVING May 28th & 29th & 30th - 2026 - 8PM at Smoke & Mirrors Theater in House of Magic

Marking the 100th anniversary year of the Great Houdini’s death!

The House of Magic is proud to present this original work, as meticulously researched from the Ransom Center’s Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle archives.

The year is 1926, and the Great Houdini is taking his crusade against Spiritualism and fake mediums straight to the public in a series of performance lectures filled with magic and seance-debunking. At the same time, his good friend Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries, is lecturing on behalf of Spiritualism, believing it to be “a great Philosophy” that will usher in a new age for mankind. Watch these two legends battle out the true nature of magic.

Over a year of research went into Houdini Speaks to the Living, bringing material straight from correspondence, essays, photographs, diaries, and books from the Harry Ransom Center’s Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle collections. About 75% of the play is verbatim theatre, so in a sense the House of Magic is indeed conjuring the very essences of Houdini and Doyle. Enjoy magic, ghost stories, and a great evening of theater. BYOB 21+ Tix 16+