Highlights this weekend include a Las Vegas-meets-Broadway style spectacle starring celebrated escape artist Lord Nil, an M. Night Shyamalan retrospective and Kel Mitchell ‘s nostalgia-driven food festival.

There’s also free events including a Bob Mackie exhibit in SoHo and Troy Anthony’s music-centered adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Pericles” in Morningside Heights.

Theater

“Lord Nil: 7 Deadly Sins”

Stage 42 — 422 West 42nd St., Manhattan (Hell’s Kitchen)

Through Aug. 31, Various showtimes.

Times Square may be inching closer to getting its controversial casino plans approved thanks to this new stunt-magic spectacle that has taken theater audiences by storm during its limited engagement. Not the typical theater fare, the 70-minute show is not a play or musical but more of an imm

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