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Comedic Duo Penn
& Teller
Bring
Their Las Vegas Magic Show to Nashville |
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 The award-winning
comedic duo Penn & Teller bring
their hit Las Vegas Magic show to Nashville for
one night only at the Tennessee Performing Arts
Center’s Andrew Jackson Hall on Friday, Oct.
27.
For over 40 years, Penn & Teller have defied
labels – and at times physics and good taste
– by redefining the genre of magic and
inventing their own distinct niche in comedy.
With sold-out runs on Broadway, world tours, Emmy
Award-winning TV specials, a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame and hundreds of outrageous
appearances on “The Tonight Show,”
“Friends,” “The Simpsons,”
“The Colbert Report,” “Modern
Family,” and “Top Chef,”
comedy’s most enduring team shows no signs
of slowing down.
With an amazing eight wins as “Las Vegas
Magicians of the Year,” their 16-year run at
The Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino makes them
the longest-running and one of the most beloved
headline acts in Las Vegas history, outselling
every other resident magician on The Strip.
Their acclaimed Showtime series, “Penn &
Teller: BS!” was nominated for 13 Emmy
Awards and is the longest-running series in the
network’s history. The show tackled the
fakes and frauds behind such topics as alien
abduction, psychics and bottled water.
Currently, the duo hosts the hit series
“Penn & Teller: Fool Us!” for The
CW Network, on which up-and-comers and magic
veterans try to fool them for a chance to star in
their Las Vegas stage show.
Along the way, Penn & Teller have written New
York Times best-sellers, hosted an Emmy-nominated
variety show for FX, starred in specials for ABC,
NBC and Comedy Central and produced the
critically-acclaimed feature film documentary,
“The Aristocrats.” Their acclaimed
documentary, “Tim’s Vermeer,”
follows Texas-based inventor Tim Jenison on his
quest to discover the methods used by Dutch
Master painter Johannes Vermeer. The Sony
Pictures Classics film was nominated for a BAFTA
and shortlisted for the 2014 Academy Awards.
As individuals, they are just as prolific. Teller
directed versions of “Macbeth” and
“The Tempest” that toured to rave
reviews from The New York Times and Wall Street
Journal, co-wrote and directed the Off-Broadway
thriller “Play Dead” and wrote two
books. Penn has written three books, including
the New York Times best-seller, “God
No!,” hosted the NBC game show
“Identity” and was a contestant on the
2008 season of ABC’s hit “Dancing with
the Stars.” Penn recently appeared on two
seasons of NBC’s “All-Star Celebrity
Apprentice.”
Penn & Teller triumphantly returned to
Broadway last summer in a smash six-week
engagement that USA Today called,
“deliciously unsettling.” It was the
highest-grossing non-musical on Broadway for its
run. |
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