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THE NEW YORKER ONLINE
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Hokum That Stands the
Test of Time By Michael Kimmelman
The New Yorker says “Coincident with the Met's ‘Perfect Medium’ show, the scholar and magician Ricky Jay presents a selection of related items from his vast collection of broadsides, posters, books, photographs, and ephemera pertaining to spiritualist amusements and deceptions. Slides from a presentation that Harry Houdini made in 1924 (though he desperately wanted to believe in mediums, he always figured out their tricks) demonstrate a few methods for spirit writing, materializations, and the like; this is accompanied by a recording of Houdini himself and a reading of his debunking lecture and commentary by the silver-tongued Jay.” |
“For the first time in more than a decade,
legendary magician Ricky Jay — considered by many the
best sleight-of-hand artist on Earth — brings his Obie-winning
show, directed by his longtime associate David Mamet, back to
the Southland. The ‘52 assistants’ of the title
are a deck of cards — items that Jay manipulates to stunning
effect in this must-see entertainment.” |
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Read the article from The Washington Examiner
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Read the review by Peter Marks from The Washington Post
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At the Theater With John Heilpern |
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