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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 ...

Rick Kissinger hopes the spirit of vaudeville will engage a new audience with a special performance this week at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. Which is really just a fancy way of ...

'Daily Variety' podcast dives into news, trends and personalities making headlines in showbiz Monod offers a vivid description of the experience of taking in a vaudeville show in a big city such as ...

A century ago, a person with a talent for punching bags could make a living at it. On the vaudeville stage, performers like the Vagges ("World Champion Bag Punchers") fitted in neatly with other "nut" ...

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 ...

“I am not a Vassar girl. I never went to school a day in my life. I was raised, if you wish to call it that, in vaudeville, going from town to town, playing with musicians, acrobats, dancers, even ...

Opera on Tap will host “A Night of Irish Vaudeville" at the American Irish Historical Society (AIHS) in NYC on Wednesday, September 25. The special event will bring together Irish and American music ...

"We're fans of rock music from all the way back, and we were just sitting around talking, and we came up with this idea -- 'Wouldn't be fun if…?' So here we are." That's Geoff Tate's explanation for ...

For the better part of two decades, the late Daniel Dumile thrived in the shadows as hip-hop’s elusive mastermind. Never seen without his Roman gladiator mask, the rapper better known as MF DOOM ...