themahaffey.com<\/a>.<\/p>\nFrom humble beginnings 50 years ago busking on the streets of Philadelphia, to acclaimed sold-out runs on Broadway, magic\u2019s legendary duo \u2014 Penn Jillette and Teller \u2014 continue to defy labels (and at times physics and good taste), by redefining the genre of magic and inventing their own very distinct niche in comedy. They are renown as the longest-running and one of the most-beloved resident headline acts in Las Vegas history.<\/p>\n
Their Off-Broadway debut in 1985 electrified New York with a stage show the likes of which had never been seen. Combining magic, comedy, and social commentary in a theatrical event the New York Times said was a \u201cA witheringly funny \u2026 brazen assault on the temple of magic,\u201d the show moved to Broadway in 1987, the first of three eponymously titled Broadway runs. Their efforts in New York have been awarded an Obie and a Lucille Lortel Award. Their most recent return to Broadway was the highest-grossing nonmusical for the entirety of its run, even out-grossing \u201cHamilton\u201d for one week.<\/p>\n
Performing nearly 300 live shows every year from the stages of America\u2019s greatest performing arts venues as well as the Sydney Opera House and London\u2019s Apollo Theatre, their record-breaking Las Vegas show at The Rio Hotel & Casino has an amazing nine wins as Las Vegas Magicians of the Year.<\/p>\n
The hit series \u201cPenn & Teller: Fool Us!\u201d for The CW Network, on which up-and-comers and magic veterans try to fool Penn & Teller for a chance to star in the pair\u2019s hit Las Vegas stage show, was nominated for a Critic\u2019s Choice Award and has been renewed for an unprecedented 11th season. The show is the longest continual American magic television series in history, introducing the art to new fans and cultivating new generations of innovators within the craft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG \u2014 Penn & Teller will perform on Thursday, Jan. 29, 8 p.m., at the Duke Energy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[33133,63625,596,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-128722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-duke-energy-center-for-the-arts","9":"tag-penn-teller","10":"tag-pinellas-county","11":"tag-st-pete","12":"tag-st-pete-headlines","13":"tag-st-pete-news","14":"tag-st-petersburg","15":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","16":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}