We just had a fantastic weekend at the Common Ground Theatre in Durham and the High Point Theatre in High Point, and now we're getting ready for a 3-day run at the North Carolina Stage Company in Asheville North Carolina! Tickets are available HERE

We did an interview with Brynn Lewallen for the NC Stage blog, which you can check out below. 

While you're at it, why not check out some of the pictures from this past weekend? If you have any pictures from our shows, feel free to send them to impossibilitiesshow@gmail.com and we'll post them on our Facebook and Twitter pages!

Chris and Erik just got back from doing a live TV spot on Fox8 this morning for Impossibilities at the High Point Theatre this Saturday night.

You can check out the interview and performance below, and don't forget to check out Impossibilities this Saturday night at the High Point Theatre! Tickets are available at www.highpointtheatre.com

Very excited to see that Impossibilities was in today's News and Record for the big shows coming up tomorrow night in Greensboro and later this month in High Point.

You can read the story below, to check out the original article click here.

Chris Collins and Erik Dobell are convinced people will spend good money to get duped in all sorts of ways.

“We decided to see what would happen if a magician did a show with a mentalist,” says Dobell, the mentalist.

“The casting was easy,” says Collins, the magician.


“It’s a good thing we weren’t like, ‘I wonder what would happen if a bass guitar player for a metal band did a show with a mime from Brooklyn,’ ” Dobell says.


They call their new show “Impossibilities: Magic, Mindreading and Mayhem!” Their 16-date tour began Aug. 22 in Winston-Salem and includes two Triad stops in September: Friday night at the Community Theatre of Greensboro’s Starr Theatre and Sept. 20 at High Point Theater.


The two sat down recently at Collins’ High Point home to talk about the 90-minute show. The family-friendly event adds a heavy dose of comedy to the magic and mind-reading mix.


“We have our own pieces that we come out and do, and there’s also some two-man pieces that we do,” Dobell says.


It’s not the first time Collins and Dobell have performed together. They became friends after meeting at a magic club in Greensboro a couple of years ago, and Collins opened for Dobell at Studio One in Burlington in 2013.


Their plans to do more shows together got sidetracked when Dobell traveled to Asia to spend time with his wife, who is working in South Korea. When he returned, he and Collins started making serious plans for the “Impossibilities” tour, crafting it for several weeks leading up to the debut last month.


“It’s a scripted, produced show,” Collins says. “It’s not, ‘Now, here’s Erik; now, here’s Chris.’ There’s a theme to the show. It starts with a piece and ends with a piece that ties the whole show together.”


Collins, a native of Norfolk, Va., whose family frequently moved around the country while he was growing up, realized he wanted to be a magician in third grade. Magician Norm Barnhardt did a show at his elementary school, and Collins interviewed him afterward for the school newsletter.


Since becoming a professional magician himself, Collins has performed in Las Vegas, on cruise ships and at corporate events, mixing illusions and sleight of hand with comedy.


Dobell grew up in upstate New York and lived in Ohio before moving to the Triad a few years ago. His funny, prop-heavy mind-reading act incorporates playing cards, bent eating utensils and plenty of audience participation.


Blending their acts “wasn’t as hard as we thought it would be,” Collins says. “Our styles are very similar. We’re both very animated, and we both have a very upbeat kind of presentation style.”


They’re reluctant to give away too much in advance about the “Impossibilities” show, but Dobell does single out Collins’s “world-famous bullet catch.”


“The catch is he does it with paintballs,” Dobell says.