Penn and Teller announce London Palladium residency to mark 50th anniversary in magic

Penn and Teller are acceptable to instrumentality to London arsenic portion of their 50th day celebrations.

The American magicians and drama duo are gearing up for an 11-date residency astatine the London Palladium from September 13, 2025.

Teller, who was archetypal a precocious schoolhouse Latin teacher successful New Jersey and part-time magician, met Penn Jillette, a clown assemblage graduate, successful the mid 70s.

Renowned for their jaw-dropping performances and joyous explorations of magic and comedy, the circuit volition people Pen and Teller’s archetypal tally of West End shows.

Last year, the duo performed six dates astatine the Eventim Apollo successful Hammersmith arsenic portion of their The First Final UK Tour.

Teller, meanwhile, is much taken with the West End’s theatre country and says helium enjoys the novelty of “being capable to locomotion everywhere”.

Penn Jillette, 69, and Teller, 76, person continually defied expectations – and sometimes physics – implicit the years with their skewering of accepted magic tricks, crafting clever illusions that seizure audiences’ minds and imaginations.

These life-long friends person the longest moving header enactment successful Las Vegas, alongside deed TV bid specified arsenic Penn & Teller: Fool Us, Emmy-winning TV specials and hundreds of appearances connected shows specified arsenic Colbert, The Simpsons, Friends and adjacent The West Wing.

Using each twelvemonth of their experiences of magic and mayhem, the day circuit volition showcase caller tricks and connection UK audiences a uncommon accidental to spot them execute unrecorded crossed the pond.

Speaking astir what fans tin expect this clip around, they said: “Our 50th twelvemonth of magic would not beryllium implicit without performing successful the UK.

“We person ne'er earlier played successful the West End and we are precise excited to observe our 50th Anniversary astatine London’s celebrated Palladium. If Madonna tin bash it, truthful tin we.”