The Magicians Room hides its front door inside a claw machine arcade on the LINQ Promenade, which tells you most of what you need to know about the place before you've seen a single trick. Behind it sits a 200-seat theater running magic through the day, and two of its resident acts split so cleanly that choosing between them takes about ten seconds once you know the difference. One is an afternoon comedy magic show that takes children from five. The other is an evening of mind reading with a minimum age of seven. They're ordered here youngest first.
Farrell Dillon: the afternoon one, with the jokes
Farrell Dillon is a Rare Honors graduate of the Chavez School of Magic, which is a real distinction and not a press-release flourish, and he appeared on all eight seasons of Masters of Illusion on the CW before settling into this room. The show runs on comedy first, with sleight of hand and a few genuinely dangerous stunts underneath it, and he works the stage alongside his wife Amanda. It's the afternoon slot, it takes kids from five, and it's the one to book when the group includes somebody who claims not to like magic.
Where: The Magicians Room, LINQ Promenade. Format: afternoon comedy magic, sleight of hand and stunts, in the 75 to 90 minute range. Ages: five and up.
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The Conjurors: the evening one, with the mind reading
The Conjurors are Matthew Pomeroy and Natasha Lamb, a British duo whose show here is called Secret Wonders, and their material sits at the mentalism end of the craft rather than the box-and-sword end. Storytelling carries the structure, large illusions punctuate it, and the mind reading is the part people argue about in the elevator afterward. They've been through Penn and Teller's Fool Us, which is the closest thing the field has to a peer review. Built for grown-ups and older kids from seven, and best suited to anyone who'd rather be unsettled than dazzled.
Where: The Magicians Room, LINQ Promenade. Format: evening mind reading and storytelling with large illusions, in the 75 to 90 minute range. Ages: seven and up.
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Pick by who's in the group, then go find the door
Small children and a spare afternoon: Farrell Dillon. Adults, teenagers, or anyone who likes being fooled more than being made to laugh: The Conjurors. The thing worth planning for either way is the entrance, because the venue is deliberately awkward to find. You go in through the claw machine arcade and take the elevator the room calls a human crane, and first-timers routinely walk past it twice. Give yourself ten more minutes than the walk seems to need. At 200 seats there's no bad row to rush for, which is the quiet advantage of a room this size. For the adults-only, later end of the same scene, our guide to small-room magic shows covers Late Night Magic, and the bigger illusion productions live in our main Las Vegas magic roundup.
