A one-night-only magic show Thursday, Aug. 13, pairs a Portland magic historian with a scholar of Indian street magic inside one of North Portland's oldest homes.

The performance, titled "World of Magic: From Conjurer to Jadugar," brings Danny Schreiber and Shreeyash Palshikar to the Victorian Belle Mansion in the Kenton neighborhood. Advance tickets start at $23.18 on Eventbrite, with door tickets $10 higher if still available. Food and drinks are sold separately.

Schreiber, who performs as "Professor DR Schreiber," is a former television producer and past president of the Society of American Magicians Portland Assembly. He belongs to the Academy of Magical Arts at Hollywood's Magic Castle and has spent more than 15 years teaching close-up and parlor magic to youth through Portland-area schools and community programs. His curriculum covers card and rope illusions alongside magic history, according to Hoodline.

Palshikar holds a Ph.D. in South Asian Studies from the University of Chicago and is a two-time Fulbright scholar whose field research focuses on traditional Indian street magic. He has taught at Albright College and Oxford University.

In performance, Palshikar adopts a traditional Indian stage persona to reenact Victorian-era magic routines, then breaks character to offer scholarly commentary deconstructing Western stereotypes about Eastern mystics, the Hoodline preview reports. The approach blends historical satire with sleight of hand.

The show's title references the word "jadugar," the Hindi-Urdu term for a magician, derived from the Persian "jadu" (magic). Jadugars were itinerant street performers and court conjurers who traveled seasonal circuits across the Indian subcontinent. According to the Hoodline report, their craft significantly influenced 19th-century Western stage illusionists during the Golden Age of Magic, though the tradition suffered a steep decline after British colonial authorities criminalized it.

Western magicians of that era frequently adapted famous Eastern feats like the Indian Rope Trick.

That contested history is what Palshikar's act aims to surface. His 2007 research in Cabinet Magazine documented how non-Indian performers adopted the character of the "Indian magician" on Western stages from the late 1800s onward, and how indigenous Indian magicians then adjusted their own image to meet Western audience expectations.

The venue adds its own layer of history. The Victorian Belle was built in 1885 by merchant David C. Cole as a wedding gift for his bride, Amanda Laura Boone, a great-granddaughter of frontiersman Daniel Boone. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the mansion was among the first Portland-area residences to feature indoor electricity and windmill-pumped hot and cold water. Original Povey Brothers stained glass windows remain intact.

KOIN's Everyday Northwest previewed the collaboration earlier this month, with host Ally Osborne demonstrating one of the tricks alongside the performers.

The show is a single performance with no announced future dates. Check the Eventbrite listing for showtime and remaining availability.