Adults who believe magic shows are exclusively for the juvenile set are doing themselves a disservice—especially when the magician Dan White is alive and well and doing his act with such deft sleight of hand that even the most skeptical will find themselves mesmerized.

White is a known quantity among in-the-know Hollywood types (Sacha Baron Cohen, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ashton Kutcher) and New Yorkers, who flocked to his weekly show at the NoMad hotel to watch him do his “time-traveling” card tricks, in which he predicts how a guest will draw a series of cards, and then relates one of them to a moment from that person’s past.