One of New England’s earliest professional magicians, Jonathan Harrington (1809-1881) began his on-the-road career as a ventriloquist “superior to anything we have ever before seen,” New England ...

"If I can open it up then it will be magic, but if I can't it will be tragic," Chanchal Lahiri said before his attempt An Indian magician attempting a Harry Houdini-inspired trick went missing after ...

There’s a revamped elimination format on America’s Got Talent this season, which advances only the week’s top two public vote-getters to the finale — with no Instant Save or any input from the judging ...

What magic there is in the imagination--and how much more imagination is sparked when an unopened "box of magic" is pulled from the recesses of a closet and opened for the first time in more four ...

Over the course of three—soon to be four—seasons, Arrested Development has fantastically documented the douchey ineptitude of illusionist George Oscar Bluth, a.k.a. GOB (a never-better Will Arnett), ...

The stars of Monkey Magic are returning to Five this Sunday to present a new series celebrating the world's best magicians and their greatest tricks, stunts and escapes. Ali Cook ('Monkey Boy'), Pete ...

At the computer graphics conference SIGGRAPH, Marco Tempest of Magic Lab and the MIT Media Lab explained how magic tricks can test people’s psychological responses to emerging technology, like drones ...

What magic there is in the imagination--and how much more imagination is sparked when an unopened "box of magic" is pulled from the recesses of a closet and opened for the first time in more four ...