Award-winning theatre company New Old Friends in association with Yvonne Arnaud Theatre will present Houdini’s Greatest Escape which will play at Darlington Hippodrome on Tuesday 2 April. Almost 100 ...

Madcap comedies aren’t easy to pull off. The immediacy of theatre can result in story and subtlety being overpowered by spectacle and chaos. You see it in farce sometimes, in pantomime often, but the ...

Harry Houdini is the world’s greatest entertainer. Just as his death-defying escapology stunts have him, and his wife Bess, on the cusp of a career-defining performance for King Edward, he finds ...

Harry Houdini was born at 2:24 a.m. April 6, 1874, in Budapest, Hungary. Born Ehrich Weiss, Harry Houdini easily slipped into his stage name, taken from an admired French magician, J.E. Robert-Houdin.

We might think of intellectual property as a modern concept, but the politics surrounding ownership of innovations at the turn of the 20th century were an absolute bloodbath. With patent trolls like ...