The Melbourne Magic Festival is casting its spell across Melbourne once again from June 30 to July 13 with over 300 performances of 75 different shows including international guest magicians from all over the world! For our first show of…
Lie, cheat, steal, win…words of advice a friend once jokingly gave me to get ahead in life. Nicholoas J. Johnson’s life motto isn’t too dissimilar: persuade, influence, manipulate, which is put on display at his Melbourne Magic Festival show, Sway….
Melbourne Magic Festival, where have you been all my life? Conveniently nestled into the Collingwood Art Precinct (home to Circus Oz and the beautiful Melba Spiegeltent), this is officially the largest festival of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere. The…
The curtains opened to the magic and comedy duo of Dom and Dumber with their new show called Gone Girl at Melbourne Magic Festival. Gone Girl, was not just a spectacle of magic, but a tale (or tail if you prefer)…
‘Psychological illusions, mind-control and temporal distortions’. White Lies sounded like an intriguing show and having sold out at the Perth Fringe, it was no surprise that the opening night at the Melbourne Magic Festival was also a sell-out. This is…
Do you consider yourself a Moulder or a Scully? Do you want to believe or are you a stone cold skeptic? Lawrence Leung’s Very Strange Things is a hilarious combination of both wonder and logic, and it’s showing between 11-15…
The Melbourne Magic Festival Close Up Gala Show was massive, with two performances occurring simultaneously on the two main theatres of the venue. Nicholas J Johnson opened proceedings for those of us in Studio 2 by encouraging us to clap…
MagicSports is a wonderful opportunity for magicians to show their comedic side. It’s TheatreSports, but using magicians instead of actors and with magical objectives as well as theatrical ones. The end result is entertainment unlike anything you’ve ever seen before….
In the foyer of Northcote Town Hall, the smell of burnt popcorn hung in the air. We headed into Studio 2 to find a very different atmosphere, the dark, yet somehow inviting, lair of Cath Jamison. We could tell we’d…
The Confidence Artist promises to help us discover such skills as the secret of telling a good lie and how to cheat at cards without getting caught. In typical magician style, Nicholas J. Johnson doesn’t really teach us those things….