Famous for his extraordinary slight of hand and near-death escapes, the man behind the magic said this was his first regional tour in a decade.

"I actually grew up on five and a half acres in Victoria, we had a lake and were surrounded by cows, so getting to do this tour is a little like getting back home," Cosentino said.

The performance, Live, will centre on four main pillars including levitating and disappearing, close of hand magic, death-defying escapes and even humour.

"The mix of humour among it all is kind of like a good Marvel movie where that comedy aspect is thrown in amid the action to give a great dramatic contrast," he said.

Cosentino has stunned the stages of huge cities all over the world, but said returning to a smaller scale was just as thrilling.

"Every audience in every city and every country is different, no two are the same," he said.

"Places like Wagga are intimate, it makes the magic more powerful and better for the audience because they can get so close.

"I used to go into schools around the region and do little performances before anyone knew me, so places like this are really where I learnt my craft."

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The art of magic came almost as a natural gift to Cosentino, in a time where finding his place in the world was a little more difficult.

"I was a shy kid, I didn't learn to read until I was 12 - My mum was a principal so forced me to learn, and that's where I came across these magic books with pictures and tricks, so Mum helped me practice them and all of a sudden I could read, I gained confidence and the obsession started," he said.

"I performed my very first trick for my father, I made a coin disappear. He was an engineer and couldn't even figure it out so it was empowering for me.

"I realised other kids couldn't do it like I could either so I kept building on it, it was a way for me to kind of escape reality and be larger than life"

Cosentino will perform at Wagga Civic Theatre on November 3.

"Come now, because who knows when I'll be back," he said.