NEW YORK — Will wonders never cease? A century after Harry Houdini thrilled audiences with daring escapes from handcuffs, straitjackets and watery tombs, the legendary magician has conjured a major ...

HOUDINI was the stage name of a magician and escape artist who died on Halloween in 1926. It was the one rendezvous with mortality even he couldn't escape. With Martha Teichner we'll now try to unlock ...

In 1917, 80,000 people pressed into the street in Providence, R.I., to watch Harry Houdini dangle upside down from the roof of a newspaper office building and wriggle out of a straitjacket. A master ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Harry Houdini (1874-1926), the renowned magician and escape artist, was one of the ...

On Halloween, 84 years after Harry Houdini vanished forever (er, died), the famed Jewish magician will return to the stage, this time in an exhibit at the Jewish Museum in New York. “Houdini: Art and ...

Will wonders never cease? A century after Harry Houdini thrilled audiences with daring escapes from handcuffs, straitjackets and watery tombs, the legendary magician has conjured a major art museum ...

When Dorothy peered behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz and saw the nuts and bolts that created the ‘Great and Powerful Oz,’ all the magic deflated. We understood, like Dorothy, that the wizard was ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. If he were alive today, Harry Houdini would probably be unsatisfied with the singular job title “magician”. The ...

It isn't often that an individual's name becomes synonymous with the art form they practice. In fact, it is extremely rare, but then Harry Houdini was a truly rare superstar. Consider how the magician ...