lucky time With ‘Mindplay,’ Vinny DePonto Wants to Bring More Awe Into Your Life

When Vinny DePonto was a student at Manhattanville University, he really wanted to major in magic. But that wasn’t an optionlucky time, so he created his own course of study, combining theater and psychology into a major he called psychology of performance art.

“I used a little trickery to major in magic,” DePonto, 38, recalled during a recent interview at a West Village coffee shop.

The intersection of stage and psyche is where DePonto takes audiences in his mentalist show “Mindplay,” directed by Andrew Neisler and running through April 20 at the Greenwich House Theater. In it, DePonto alternates between tender remembrances of growing up in a close-knit Italian American family in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., and seemingly supernatural feats that involve him calling audience members onto the stage to talk about their most personal memories.

Image“Mindplay” is scheduled to run through April 20 at the Greenwich House Theater in Manhattan.Credit...Chris Ruggiero

During the performance I attended,jiliace sniffles and gasps could be heard around the theater as DePonto, who wrote the show with Josh Koenigsberg, sat across from a man and discerned details about the man’s dead father and his beloved harmonica.

DePonto has been reading minds for roughly 20 years, and he has cited as inspiration Ricky Jay, the renowned magician and mentalist who died in 2018. He said he caught the magic bug as a boy when his father gave him a shoe box of disappearing handkerchief-style tricks.

We are having trouble retrieving the article content.

Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.

Here’s what Mr. Trump has said about Mr. Robinson.

kaboom slots

The fires remained small, burning less than an acre of land combined, because local residents and firefighters worked quickly to extinguish them, according to Cal Fire. Mr. Hernandez, a resident of Healdsburg who was accused of setting the fires while off duty, was booked into the Sonoma County Main Adult Detention Facility on six felony counts and was being held on $2 million bail.

Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.

Thank you for your patience while we verify access.

Already a subscriber? Log in.

Want all of The Times? Subscribe.lucky time