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Live Theatre Returns To SoHo Playhouse This April With Todd Robbins’s “Haunt Quest”

SoHo Playhouse (Artistic Director, Darren Lee Cole) is thrilled to announce the return of performer Todd Robbins to our theater with his new immersive experience, Haunt Quest. This will be the first live show staged at SoHo Playhouse since March 2020.

Todd Robbins’s Haunt Quest will open on 23 April 2021 for a limited audience, keeping with New York’s COVID-19 guidelines. This four-week, limited-run production will take place in The Loft space of SoHo Playhouse with five performances every week: Thursday at 8:00 pm; two shows each Friday and Saturday, at 8:00 pm and 10:30 pm. The play runs at seventy-five minutes.

While the “ghoulishly charming” Todd Robbins is perhaps most recognizable to New Yorkers as a decades-long sideshow, magic, circus, ragtime piano, traditional jazz, medicine show, and burlesque performer at Coney Island, Robbins also currently hosts the Investigation Discovery Channel series True Nightmares (Los Angeles Times).

The performer also recently starred in the critically-acclaimed Off-Broadway show, Play Dead. Robbins created this “joyous evening of true ghost stories” with legendary Vegas magician Teller (of Penn & Teller fame). The show “played to a sold out run at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles.” Robbins also produces New York’s longest-running magic show, Monday Night Magic, and its sister show, Magical Nights at Feinstein’s.

Robbins believes SoHo Playhouse to be the prime venue for his next theatrical venture, Haunt Quest, considering that “the building that houses SoHo Playhouse has been around for about two hundred years.” As such, “many dark events have occurred [at the theater] over the years,” and “many people who had a connection with the building are now dead.”

In his newest work, the Haunt Quest performer will employ “arcane retro-paranormal ghost hunting techniques” intended to “open the souls of the living in order to invite the dead to return.” Robbins reveals that, during this show, “What you will see, you will see with your mind’s eye. What you will hear, you will hear with your inner ear. And when the dead return, you will understand who they are and why they are there.” Robbins also divulges that “each evening’s Haunt Quest will be different and truly unique.”

Tickets ($55) are available for purchase at https://ci.ovationtix.com/35583/production/1043689. Should ticket buyers have questions, they may reach SoHo Playhouse Box Office associates by emailing [email protected].

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Play Dead the Movie with Todd Robbins and Teller

Play Dead the Movie with Todd Robbins and Teller

Live at Bizarre Hauntings – Todd Robbins (in person) and Teller (via technology) will be featuring, with LIVE commentary, PLAY DEAD, the Off-Broadway show co-written by Todd Robbins and Teller! This may be your only chance to experience this! This is part of Weerd Hauntings at Bizarre Hauntings! A night of tribute to the Weerd Weekends of old! Special guests will be announced soon. This is just…

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360: A Magician Prepares

Joshua Stenkamp and Jason Wethington recently authored an unusual and interesting book, "A Magician Prepares - Act One: Interview" that puts a lot of advice from some top professionals in one place. If you enjoy this magic podcast, then you should also enjoy this book because it is like reading a podcast. Even getting into the interview and after the chat is concluded, the authors talk about what they are doing to get to the interview and where they were going afterwards. As an overview of the book, it might best be described by Amazon:

"A Magician Prepares Act One- Interviews" explores the relationship between magic, art, and theatre through intimate conversations with 19 top professionals from the secretive world of magic. Each interview is an unscripted journey of personal stories, unique insights, and valuable advice in creating magical experiences for your audiences.

In the first part of this podcast, Jason brings us up to date on whatever happened to Kostya Kimlat's "Restaurant Magic Business", what is happening on the Portland, Oregon magic scene, then we get into the importance of working with consultants who bring you and your act to another level. After a while, Joshua jumps in as we talk about the book and their character development that is discussed in the book. The story of collecting the stories behind the book is almost as fascinating as the stories themselves.

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333: Todd Robbins - The Man Of Your Nightmares

Todd Robbins is a man of many talents with many "irons in the fire", so to speak. With a background in sideshow entertainment (eating glass, fire eating, driving a nail up his nose, walking on glass, etc.) he has found a niche in the larger public eye on the Discovery Network as the host of "True Nightmares". He is also the star of the theatrical show "Play Dead" co-written by his friend, Teller (of Penn & Teller fame).

In this episode, Todd talks about "spiritualism" performing seances that led to his producing "Play Dead"; his work doing deshow entertainment (for example, how he eats glass); his work with the Big Apple Circus; producing and performing at "Monday Night Magic" in New York City; hosting the hit TV series, "True Nightmares", being one of the famous "Long Beach Mystics" as a young man, all interspersed with some pretty interesting stories along the way.

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Join Carnival Maestro Todd Robbins and award winning filmmaker, Nick Basile on a journey into a world of circus freaks, fire eaters, human blockheads, magicians, contortionists, professional lunatics, and much, much more. 

AMERICAN CARNY - now available Vimeo onDemand

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Couldn't Have Happened to a Nicer Guy: Johnny Thompson Honored by LA Critics

Couldn’t Have Happened to a Nicer Guy: Johnny Thompson Honored by LA Critics

A while back we gave our review of Teller and Todd Robbins disturbing but very entertaining show Play Dead then showing at The Geffen Playhouse here in Los Angeles.

The writing was fantastic and matched the outstanding performance given by Mr. Robbins.  The magic was, though, was truly magical.

Today we learned through Teller’s contribution to Alan Watson’s always jam-packed with goodness Magic…

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Man eating a Light Bulb... Like what you see? 

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Watch AMERICAN CARNY, AN EXCITING DOCUMENTARY STARRING TODD ROBBINS AND MANY OTHER ICONIC'S PERFORMERS NOW ON Amazon, Fandor, Google Play, Playstation, YouTube and BigStar.

AMERICAN CARNY will take you on a journey into a world of circus freaks, fire eaters, human blockheads, magicians, contortionists, professional lunatics, and much, much more.

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See them together again in American Carny. Join Carnival Maestro Todd Robbins and award winning filmmaker, Nick Basile on a journey into a world of circus freaks, fire eaters, human blockheads, magicians, contortionists, professional lunatics, and much, much more.

In this in-depth documentary, you will travel the historic road of the American Sideshow from the circus tents to the American Dime Museum in Baltimore, to the last 'ten-in-onesideshow' that exists today on Brooklyn's infamous Coney Island.

Available on Fandor, Amazon, BigStar, Google Play, YouTube.