VARIETY: “In & Of Itself,” Produced by Neil Patrick Harris and Directed by Frank Oz, to Open Off Broadway

BY GORDON COX / “In & Of Itself,” the Frank Oz-directed magic show that played L.A.’s Geffen Playhouse last year, will get an Off Broadway run this spring from a varied team of producers that includes Neil Patrick Harris.

The hybrid show, which fuses magic with storytelling, is created by Derek DelGaudio, the magician whose “Nothing to Hide” (seen in New York in 2013) was directed by Harris. Joining Harris and his Prediction Productions on the project are Werner Entertainment led by Tom Werner, the prolific TV producer (“Roseanne,” “The Cosby Show,” “Survivor’s Remorse”) who is also the chairman of the Boston Red Sox, as well as Gary Goddard Entertainment (Broadway’s “The Encounter”).

Oz, who’s directed movies including “In & Out” and “Little Shop of Horrors” and voiced characters from “Sesame Street” and “Star Wars,” stages “In & Of Itself” with an interdisciplinary creative team that encompasses conceptual artist Glenn Kaino, on board as artistic producer; composer Mark Mothersbaugh, the frontman of the band DEVO; and A.Bandit, DelGaudio and Kaino’s “performance-art collective” credited as production designer.

The New York engagement will run 10 weeks, April 5-June 18, at the Daryl Roth Theater, the Off Broadway venue owned by Broadway producer Daryl Roth, whose production of Paula Vogel play “Indecent” opens at the Cort Theater later this spring.

Read at Variety: http://variety.com/2017/legit/news/in-and-of-itself-neil-patrick-harris-frank-oz-new-york-1201984612/