Many of us find ourselves looking to connect with our family histories. One man's family history happens to be especially ...

Otto Moser’s opened on East 4th in 1893 where the Wonder Bar is now and lasted a century before moving to Playhouse Square.

It seems a reasonable conclusion that if you hear the statement, “Vaudeville has been good to me,” you are either watching an old TV show in black and white or talking to a performer older than ...

The term "vaudeville" may make you think of musty old theaters and outdated forms of entertainment. But at one point, it was a thriving outlet for artistic expression. It's where music, dance, theater ...

Nobody’s talking about it yet, but something is up with Vaudeville Cabaret at 110 E. Congress St. The bar, largely known for holding a slew of punk-rock, hip-hop and other events during the past ...

This photo from the Allen County Historical Society shows the State Theater, in the 100 block of West Market Street, after it closed in June 1955. The theater and the adjacent Boone Block were razed ...

If vaudeville is all but extinct, it has, at least, a reservation in Britain, a sort of sanctuary for the vanishing boffolo, where variety acts by the dozen still command high prices and audiences ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since Oldtime Songwriter Hughie Cannon wrote the lyrics in 1902, singers have been pleading in every form of jazz from ragtime to bop: “Won’t you come home, Bill Bailey, won’t you come home? Bill ...