David Ben

By popular demand: one more performance of David Ben's Tricks at Soulpepper.

See some Tricks! Photos from our opening weekend.

Three decades ago, David Ben left a career in law to pursue his passion: magic. His new show, simply called Tricks, is now playing at Toronto's Soulpepper theatre.

Post City Toronto report: Toronto’s sleight of hand master, David Ben, hits stage this weekend, part of the Soulpepper Family Festival. Read more by Ron Johnson. 

David Ben returns as a guest blogger, describring how music is the secret ingredient for Tricks.

Why do we need tricks? Resident trickster, David Ben, sheds some interesting insights into secrets and tricks in his latest post on (what else?), Tricks.

For the love of it. That’s why I perform magic. Some people think musically, some visually. I think magically. I always have.

"No mere annotation, The Experts gives Erdnase a complete overhaul. ... And by the time the reader turns the final page, the only conclusion is that this book is the work of a sincere student of Erdnase and one of the finest sleight-of-hand artists alive."—JARED KOPF

"This book is a pleasure to page through, and is an important and welcome addition to Erdnasiana. It deserves all the praise it is already getting, and will surely create rabid anticipation for the next two volumes in the trilogy."— JOHN LOVICK