Illusionist and escape artist Harry Houdini the day he performed his famous stunt in which he was submerged in the East River in a crate and escaped in just under a minute on July 7th 1912 in New York ...

Although her OKC run is getting cut short due to wintry weather, Texan Katie Bender conjures up relatable intrigue with her ...

Pick a card ... any card! One of the first decks of cards ever used by Harry Houdini sold for $43,410 Sunday night at Goldin Auctions. The cards were passed to Houdini's wife, Bess, after his death in ...

NEW YORK CITY -- The Houdini Museum of New York in Manhattan unlocks the life of the greatest magician and escape artist who ever lived. Harry Houdini, whose real name was Erich Weiss, was most ...

Playwright, performer and theater maker Katie Bender is bringing her one-woman show to OKC for performances at Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center.

Magician Ben Pratt will perform Harry Houdini's "Wall of Rope Illusion" at the Park Theatre in Jaffrey on Saturday, Jan. 24, at 7:30 p.m., featuring a 75-minute show of magic, illusions and comedy.

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 ...

Ehrich Weiss (Harry Houdini) born to Rabbi Mayer Samuel Weiss and his wife Cecelia on March 24 in Budapest, Hungary. At age nine, Ehrich and some neighborhood friends establish a five-cent circus.

Tired of ads? Subscribers enjoy a distraction-free reading experience. Click here to subscribe today or Login. Actor and magician John Calvert, at left in an advertisement for the 1948 movie ’The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A lithograph poster for Howard Thurston, the great magician, who was the most famous magician in the world in the early 20th ...

Harry Houdini made a career out of defying death — and yet it wasn't his thrilling escapes from water-filled vessels or skyscraper ledges that caused his untimely demise. According to the Yale ...