The Magicians Room is Coming to Linq Promenade

By Scott Roeben, on October 02 2025
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A new “magic speakeasy,” The Magicians Room, is slated to open at Linq Promenade later this month. It’s October. Of 2025. Contact your sponsor.

Touted as a “first-of-its-kind” venue, The Magicians Room will feature (wait for it) live magic. This “first-of-its-kind” claim will come as a big surprise to The Magicians Study, a magic speakeasy at Mandalay Place. Far be it from us to make anything awkward.

Like “Caesars,” “Magicians” does not have an apostrophe, presumably because we are all magicians. Although, if that were true, everyone would be looking for free tickets to The Magicians Room, which is not a viable business model.

The magic term is “transposition.” We were personally a noted child magician until we had that talent beaten out of us by middle school classmates. Which, we know, explains a lot.

The Magicians Room says it will appeal to families by and adults-only at night.

Here are some words from the news release we are too busy to paraphrase: “Developed and operated by Las Vegas-based Pompey Entertainment, The Magicians Room will introduce a distinctive two-part experience. Visitors will first encounter a modern and cutting-edge ‘crane-only’ arcade—packed with interactive claw machines and nostalgic flair—before discovering the cleverly concealed entrance to the magic showroom. Guests can choose to enter through a ‘human crane’ elevator or venture down the rabbit hole to a secret staircase.”

You know crane arcade games. You use the claw to retrieve prizes. These machines make it think the results are skill-based, but the outcome is predetermined. Like slot machines. In the case of Go Go Claw, literally like slot machines.

Claw machines have a lot in common with brothels, including the illusion of luck.

Once inside, audiences will see magic performed by magicians, the people most qualified to perform it.

The starting line-up will include Farrell Dillon, The Conjurors, Late Night Magic and David Goldrake.

These folks are described as “world-famous and award-winning artists.”

See how we aren’t being snarky? That’s because we want to attend a show and we don’t need anyone giving us dirty looks because we once said their Las Vegas show closed because it wasn’t selling tickets and that tends to mean the show isn’t all that great. How dare we? In this purely hypothetical situation, we may also have said people aren’t clamoring for old-school magic anymore. That, friends, is what’s known in the business as “doubling down.”

The head honcho of The Magicians Room is Damian Costa, of Pompey Entertainment, who ran the doomed Duomo at the Rio and was formerly the V.P. of Entertainment for Caesars Entertainment. He’s the one who said they had good foot traffic in Masquerade Village at Rio. We are not making this up.

Shows at The Magicians Room will be “enhanced by cutting-edge technology such as holograms, augmented reality and immersive effects.” Expect to find yourself immersed in $18 cocktails.

Anyway, yes, people still see magic shows in Las Vegas.

Performing magic in Las Vegas is a special kind of fun. Drunk audiences are, by far, the most receptive to sitting quietly and enjoying the nuances of prestidigitation.

The Magicians Room debuts Oct. 20, 2025. The space is next to Virgil’s Real Barbecue at Linq Promenade.

The afternoon, kid-friendly show is at 4:30. Evening shows are at 8:30 p.m. or 10:30 p.m. Tickets are $25 to $60, a solid value given the average price of Las Vegas show tickets at the moment.

Don’t wait to check out The Magicians Room while you still can!

Fine, we’re a little snarky. But it’s the passive-aggressive kind, the most beloved form of snark, probably.