Breaking updates, announcements, and developments across the magic industry.
Harrison Greenbaum's What Just Happened? ended its off-Broadway run at Aslyum NYC this April. That doesn’t mean, however, that the show is over. Greenbaum will be taking What Just Happened? on tour across the country, bringing his off-Broadway performance to places in Pennsylvania and elsewhere.
Harrison Greenbaum's What Just Happened? ended its off-Broadway run at Aslyum NYC this April. That doesn’t mean, however, that the show is over. Greenbaum will be taking What Just Happened? on tour across the country, bringing his off-Broadway performance to places in Pennsylvania and elsewhere.
A walking tour heading to Waterloo, Ontario, has more than a few tricks up its sleeves. The experience is called Magic & Shenanigans and is produced by variety artist Phil LeConte and magician Billy Kidd.
Genii readers sound off on the new length of reviews; read an author's (changed) perspective.
“We were just weird, weird guys who did this weird little show that we really, really liked. And then, because of Lorne Michaels, Saturday Night Live changed everything.”
For 25 years, Steve Cohen’s Chamber Magic has been a fixture of New York City.
Tarot is getting showcased in London this year. From January 31 to April 30, the Warburg Institute is hosting an exhibit called Tarot—Origins & Afterlives.
In 1966, Robert Harbin performed his new illusion, The Zig Zag Lady, on the live variety show Sunday Night at the London Palladium.
This February, the CBC put out a podcast episode about Henry Box Brown, an enslaved person in Virginia who, in 1849, shipped himself to freedom in a wooden crate.
Paul Valadon died on this day, 1913, in Phoenix, Arizona. He was supposed to be Kellar’s successor, but in 1907 Howard Thurston raced back to America and secured the contract instead.
“For those who believe, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not, none will suffice.”
This day in 1874 was not Harry Houdini’s birthday. But he celebrated his birthday on this day all his life. Wanna know why?
The Loft has shows seven nights a week, 363 days a year. (The only days it’s closed are the Fourth of July, and—one of the most hallowed days of the year for many—Super Bowl Sunday.)