On Halloween, the anniversary of his death, Harry Houdini will be back on stage. The Jewish Museum in New York is opening a new exhibition, “Houdini: Art and Magic,” on Oct. 29, and curator Brooke ...

In this video, I teach the coin tick that fooled Houdini. Thomas Nelson Downs was a magician in early 1900s. He was very skilled and known as the 'King of Coins'. Many say that Downs "was the first of ...

Through the recently digitized scrapbooks of Harry Houdini, you can be transported to the world of 19th-century magic, an era of deception and curiosity about the unknown. Houdini’s “Magicians ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The famed magician and illusionist Harry Houdini will be honored at Jaffrey’s Park ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Halloween is all about the horrifying and the haunting, the wicked and the wacky, embracing all things spooky and mysterious. In the early 20th century, no one was more ...

Houdini was famous for exposing fake magic. Still, one trick managed to stop him cold. The method wasn’t about speed or ...

Howard Thurston, the last great stage illusionist, was hailed as “The World’s Greatest Magician” in the early 20th century. But he has been all but forgotten. He was a contemporary and rival of Harry ...

He was the most famous magician of the 20th century. Yet Harry Houdini’s peers were often scathing about him. His tricks were ...

Written by Jordan Baker, this new play is a period drama about the final years in the life of Harry Houdini, aiming to perform by October 2026. This public reading will be used to gauge an audience ...