Derren Brown is bringing his bag of tricks to Broadway.

The renowned British mentalist, who for years has been mystifying audiences in person and on television with what appears to be an ability to read minds, will play a four-month run at the Cort Theater, starting in September.

“Well, who wouldn’t?” he said when asked why he wanted to bring the show to Broadway. “What an amazing chance.”

He arrives at a time when mind magic seems to be enjoying a bit of a renaissance — not only did Mr. Brown have an Off Broadway run, at the Atlantic Theater Company in 2017 , but so did Derek DelGaudio, and the group of magicians called the Illusionists have for four years been performing over the holidays on Broadway.

“I think magic generally is particularly of interest when the cultural narrative that we would otherwise live by dips out of favor,” Mr. Brown said. “Over the last couple hundred years we proudly dispensed with superstition, but now death is just frightening and absurd. And that’s where the world of psychics and mediums are perfect — they can provide a semblance of meaning.”