Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Not long ago, venues across the country were selling out houses and packing in ...

Foot juggling is an old Chinese and Russian circus trick. It’s not very common in the U.S. Ethiopian-born performer Helen Wonjila learned foot juggling in China, at a school outside of Beijing. She ...

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 ...

The University of Arizona School of Theater, Film & Television’s costume vault is an underground maze of corsets, vests, fluffy skirts, ball gowns and trench coats. Cubbies are labeled as specifically ...

At the turn of the 20th century, vaudeville performances exploded in growth in America, entertaining audiences with a variety of acts from magicians to comedy shows and more. In Astoria, Oregon, the ...

Alison Cullen Cressey teaches dance to kids in the 2023 Camp Vaudeville at the Smoot Theatre in Parkersburg. Registration is underway for the 2024 camp from July 8-13. Cressey returns as an instructor ...

Lord Franzannian (a.k.a. Elizabeth Lord) has a new vaudeville show with performances this weekend and next. Heather Schofner Courtesy of Elizabeth Lord Sherilyn Fenn, best known for her central role ...

Celebrated local playwright Jeffrey Neuman has long been drawn to vaudeville. “So much of what we have inherited in American pop culture comes to us from the vaudeville stage,” Neuman says. “It has a ...

When Manhattan’s Palace Theater (most famed two-a-day house in the U.S.)started to show pictures in 1932, U. S. vaudeville was through. Last week, vaudeville got its first full-length biography, by ...

Red haired Amsterdam native Inez Courtney was 15 when she performed a specialty dance act during a three day run in 1923 in a vaudeville show at the Rialto Theater on Market Street, part of the Keith ...

Star Time (produced by Paul Small) is a creaky vaudeville coupé kept moving only because Lou Holtz, a tireless master of ceremonies, is between the shafts. There is one big-time act: the gracefully ...