The 81-year old entertainer performs magic tricks and seems to read minds. Now he’s training young boxers.

We went to learn from “Europe’s foremost expert on ‘magic-experience-design.'”

Take Doug Henning’s magic, the goofiness of Wayne’s World, add a healthy dose of ’70s kitsch, and you have Elephant Room, a charming and funny show currently running at Arena Stage.

It’s easy to assume that the decision to split Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the seventh and final book in J.K. Rowling’s wizarding series, into two films was a blatant money grab. And perhaps for Warner Brothers, it was an attempt to squeeze just one more multi-million-dollar opening weekend out of a series that has already grossed 1.7 billion dollars worldwide, and is in position to surpass the Star Wars films as the highest-earning movie franchise in history within the next few weeks. But whether or not it was a crass business decision on the studio’s part, director David Yates and screenwriter Steve Kloves have, for the most part, used the decision to their distinct advantage.