In downtown Appleton, Harry Houdini has captured attention for over a century. Although he was born in Budapest, Hungary, he ...

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 ...

My sparring partner” is Arthur Conan Doyle’s affectionate term for Harry Houdini in David Haig’s new drama, Magic, which ...

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 ...

His family immigrated to the U.S. in 1878, when Houdini was 4 years old, and he cherished his childhood memories of Appleton.

NEW YORK - Nestled next to the late Lewins, Blums and Levys in a spooky old cemetery in New York City lies the final resting place of America's most legendary magician, interred under a granite ...

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 — Over a colorful career that’s included an Oscar win for a Roman Polanski film, collaborations with unconventional directors such as Rian Johnson and Wes Anderson and — of course — that ...