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 ...

NEW YORKNEW 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 ...

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 ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Ehrich Weiss, the Budapest-born son of an immigrant family, decided ...

“Houdini: Art and Magic,” the illuminating show newly arrived at Los Angeles’ Skirball Cultural Center from the Jewish Museum in New York, demystifies a magician and escape artist so spectacular he ...

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 ...

A few months ago, Canadian company SideFX quietly released the 17th "Banshee" version of its bleeding-edge Houdini procedural animation software, which handles all sorts of physics in CGI ...

September provides an opportunity to look back as well as look forward. The celebrations for the centenary of Francis Newton Souza’s birth culminated in the first half of 2025. A unique piece of ...

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 ...

Even almost 100 years after his death, the name Harry Houdini is synonymous with escapology, but less is known about his first great escape - how he left his Hungarian home as a child for a new life ...

Any man who can thread 30 needles inside his stomach using a swallowed strand of black string is someone to be reckoned with. If he can also free himself after being tied in ropes and bound in a ...