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If you are looking for information about hiring Dynamo, star of TV series Dynamo: Magician Impossible, for your event, call our team now on 0845 006 2442. If you have a specific event in mind you can enquire here, to save yourself some time and a member of our team will be in touch. Here [...]

Guy Hollingworth, a renowned UK magician, debuted The Expert at the Card Table ten years ago at the Edinburgh Comedy Festival to rave reviews, refined the show over many performances into a spellbinding night of magic and mystery, and now brings it to The Broad Stage in Los Angeles, California, under the direction of beloved [...]

Exactly 100 years ago today, a famous magician called The Great Lafayette perished in a fire in the Empire Theatre, Edinburgh. His life was extraordinary and this week, magicians are appearing in Edinburgh to pay homage to the master illusionist. Read more here: The Great Lafayette

Pickpocket magician, James Freedman writes: I placed a Wanted Ad recently for some old pickpocket posters. Maybe I shouldn’t have used the phrase ‘cash waiting’ which prompted a suspicious email reply. The whole saga is told here… The original advert said: WANTED Any pickpocket posters, photos or other ephemera & pickpocket themed effects. Cash waiting… [...]

Playwright Alan Bennett was mugged this week by a gang of girls who secretly flicked ice-cream onto his jacket, then as they ‘helped’ him to clean it off, they quietly helped themselves to his wallet too. But another similar distraction scam is currently doing the rounds in London and one of our team, professional mindreader [...]

  The team behind The Magic Circle Headquarters has been awarded the title “Venue Team of The Year”.   The announcement was made by the Association of Event Organisers at the annual Excellence Awards held at the Hilton on Park Lane and hosted by comedian Jason Manford. This is the latest industry honour for the [...]

  After dipping our toes in the social networking pool by joining Facebook, we thought we’d try our hand at the latest craze to sweep the world – Twitter. So if you already a member, follow us ‘Magicianscouk’ and if you aren’t then we feel it is high time you sign up!   Our parent [...]

  Yes we’ve given in to the world of social Networking! You can catch up with the latest news, gossip, offers and events going on in the wonderful world of Magicians.co.uk on Facebook! We will also be adding the link to our fantastic ‘Trick of the week’ podcasts, where subscribers can see a trick and [...]

  James Freedman was invited to 10 Downing Street again recently and was caught on camera by the policeman who took this photo!   James, a stage pickpocket and magician, was described in Time Out as “possibly the world’s best pickpocket”. He has entertained royalty, heads-of-state and celebrities in over 25 countries and has earned [...]

  As you can probably imagine, December is a very busy time here in the Magicians.co.uk offices. And it’s not just our performers who are busy, the bookings team are doing their usual brilliant job scheduling the hundreds of magical appearances (and disappearances!) we make in the weeks before Christmas. But someone, who’ll remain nameless to protect the [...]