Before ‘talkies’ in the movies and long before television, there was vaudeville. Troupes of singers, dancers, musicians and comedians entertained live, on stage, in theaters. The Orpheum Circuit, for ...

Packed into dark parlors that were wet with sweat and thick with pipe smoke and booze fumes, immigrant laborers caroused amid a bawdy stew of singing, dancing and the unadorned fringe of theater. This ...

The live show “The Great Mr. Swindle’s Traveling Peculiarium and Drink-Ory Garden” — an attraction that blends acrobats, vaudeville comedy, and beer drinking — is coming to Boston Oct. 12-Nov. 6 for ...

The ultimate Saturday night collision of music, comedy, cabaret and controlled chaos kicks off on 8 November with a five-week residency running through to 6 December. Vaudeville Smash’d takes over the ...

Vaudeville, long since pronounced dead, had never looked more alive. Last week, on the boards of its old stronghold, Manhattan’s Palace Theater (which surrendered to the movies in 1932), vaudeville ...