David Haig shines as writer and star of this dramatisation about the fraught friendship of two entertainment giants and their debate over what is real or simply illusion ...

In the world of magic, it isn’t enough to simply come up with an innovative trick — you also need to be capable of pulling off the definitive version of it. The history of magic abounds with instances ...

An interest in spiritualism drew the escapologist and the Sherlock Holmes author together but, as actor-playwright Haig’s drama Magic shows, also threw them into conflict ...

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 ...

Hadley Fraser and David Haig star as Harry Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle in this world premiere production, penned by Haig and directed by Lucy Bailey ...

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 ...

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 ...

It may not be magic, but it will do the trick. Harry Houdini fans around the nation are working hard to cobble together funds to fix the legendary escape artist’s Queens gravesite. The nearly ...

The Halloween magic was pure Harry Houdini, as inspired admirers gathered with state Assemblywoman Rebecca Seawright to dedicate the legendary escape artist’s Upper East Side childhood home on the ...