Est. 1905 — the home of magic
From West End illusion built for a full house to candlelit close-up work at a dinner table, here's what's currently on across London's magic scene.
The screen heist franchise steps onto a real stage — four illusionists staging large-scale sleight of hand and stunt work, with a couple of guests fresh off Britain's Got Talent along for the ride.
The Magic Circle's own members take the stage for their yearly festive show, staged inside magic's most famous clubhouse — posters, artefacts and all.
A smaller, seated format where card work happens close enough that the mechanics still won't explain themselves — followed by a tour of the building.
Brown's newest show reaches the West End after a run of UK tour dates — the usual mix of psychological misdirection and audience participation, short on traditional tricks.
Magician Tony 'Sonic' Middleton runs a Victorian drawing-room set inside a five-star hotel — card work and mind-reading close enough that hiding a move isn't really an option.
Usually booked solid with private and corporate events, Drake opens a handful of public dates a year — the venue itself is only shared with ticket holders.
Dieter Roterburg hosts a rotating line-up of close-up specialists around a dinner table, so the magic happens a hand's width away rather than on a stage.
A comedy-musical about a brother-and-sister magic act, blending genuine sleight of hand and circus skills with original songs — built for families rather than magic purists.
Billed by name alone as "Unnamed Magician," this performer keeps their identity, background and methods deliberately undisclosed — a single-night set of the most fooling card magic in the world.
A touring large-scale illusion show built around escape and disappearance set pieces, staged with a live orchestra and a rotating guest illusionist each week.
A daytime, hands-on show built for younger audiences, with volunteers pulled up on stage throughout and a beginner trick to take home after the final bow.
London has been home to The Magic Circle — one of the world's oldest and most secretive magic societies — since 1905, and the city's mix of grand West End theatres and tucked-away hotel bars still means there's usually a show worth catching, whether that's a full stage spectacle or a card trick three feet from your face.
Every society needs a founder, and ours happens to be dead. The story goes that in the bitter January of 1905, a retired stage mesmerist named Josiah Pell — once billed as "The Unaccountable Pell" — collapsed mid-trick at a private supper in Bloomsbury and never got up again. What he did instead, according to the members who still swear by it, was linger.
For three years, Pell's presence was blamed for every vanished pack of cards, every candle that guttered out on cue, every door that eased shut a half-second before a punchline landed. Magicians being magicians, nobody wanted to be the one to say a ghost was heckling them — until a card mechanic called Eleanor Voss decided to stop treating it as a nuisance and start treating it as an audition.
She left a chair empty at her table one Tuesday and dealt Pell into the game. The cold spot obliged. Within a year, that empty chair had a name — "Pell's Seat" — and a standing invitation at every close-up session in the city. Performers who wanted honest feedback learned to watch which way the flame leaned when they got the sleight wrong.
Conjuring in London was registered as a proper society in 1905 with Pell listed, half in jest, half not, as founding member number one. The clubhouse kept his seat. The custom kept its shape. To this day, whoever books our Séance Room is asked, politely, not to move the chair at the head of the table — it's already taken.
☙ Founding Member No. 1, still not paying dues ❧
Every space at Conjuring in London can be hired for private events, from full-stage spectaculars to intimate gatherings — get in touch to check availability and rates.
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Our main stage, with tiered seating, full lighting and sound — built for large-scale illusion shows, product launches and corporate galas.
A relaxed, low-lit lounge with soft seating — well suited to drinks receptions, informal parties and close-up sets that spill across the room.
A candlelit, round-table space designed for intimate mentalism and séance-style entertainment — perfect for private dinners and small celebrations.
Lined with historic posters, apparatus and artefacts from the collection — a striking backdrop for receptions, launches and exhibition previews.
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From time to time we set aside an honorary seat for mentalists whose work we admire — performers who've shaped the craft well beyond our own clubhouse.
Known for "propless" mentalism — reading a spectator without a single prop in hand — and for the books and lecture material that have made his methods a reference point for the next generation.
Brought mentalism into the national conversation, blending suggestion, showmanship and psychology across two decades of television specials and sold-out stage shows.
A performer and prolific author who's written dozens of books on mentalism theory, and has consulted behind the scenes on television mind-reading acts since his teens.
Trained in forensic investigation before turning it into an act — billed as "the real-life Sherlock Holmes" for deduction routines built on close observation rather than prediction alone.
A fixture of British television mentalism for over two decades, with a run of appearances from Parkinson to the BBC's History of Magic and a reputation for direct, impromptu mind-reading.
Honorary members are invited, not applied for — but everyone else is welcome to try.
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Every trick here has a method behind it — England's ghost stories don't. If tonight's mysteries leave you wanting something with no explanation at all, the country's most haunted places are all a short trip from London.
Nearly a thousand years of imprisonments and executions have made this fortress one of Britain's most reported hauntings — Anne Boleyn's ghost is said to still walk near the White Tower.
Along the palace's so-called Haunted Gallery, visitors have long reported the screams of Catherine Howard, dragged from the room before her execution — and the quieter footsteps of the "Grey Lady."
Centuries of torture and imprisonment inside this medieval stronghold are behind tales of a wailing "Blue Boy" and a white-clad figure said to drift through the old pantry.
Forever tied to the 1612 trial that sent ten locals accused of witchcraft to the gallows — many who visit this quiet moorland hill say that history never really left.
Sources vary and none of this is verified — treat it as folklore, not fact.