At Houdini’s Magic Shop, shelves are jam packed with the unusual. Picking out just the right magic trick can be difficult with so many options, but with any luck, the resident magician can help — ...

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“Houdini,” the new musical now playing at East Haddam’s Goodspeed Opera House, focuses on the life of the famed magician who could free himself from chains, straitjackets and tanks full of water with ...

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 ...

In the 16th century, a British country gentleman named Reginold Scot published a book on magic tricks, hoping it would stem the tide of witch-hangings, a popular pastime just then in the English ...

He’s the most famous magician to ever live, but few realize that Harry Houdini (1874–1926) began life as Ehrich Weiss, a ...

Update: Thomas Poole’s drive-in magic show has been rescheduled to Friday, Sept. 25. When coming up with new magic tricks to perform, Thomas Poole asks himself two questions: “What would be the ...

We look back at Harry Houdini and his magic. See images of Harry Houdini, from The Jewish Museum in New York. Harry Houdini was the greatest escape artist of his time, maybe any time. A century ago, ...

If you've ever wondered where the rabbit comes from when he's pulled from the top hat, we have a book for you. Card tricks and shell games? Ladies sawed in half? All here. Alex Stone has been a magic ...

Liberty Larsen, Richard Young, Sam Strange and Fernando Velasco, known as the Champions of Magic, join TODAY to talk about their magic show Chasing the Unbelievable. “There really is something for ...

APPLETON (WLUK) -- This week, Appleton is celebrating a local legend. Escape artist, illusionist and magician, Harry Houdini, would have turned 150 years old on Sunday. And although Houdini was ...