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 ...

Maybe it’s the architecture. Maybe it’s the history. Maybe it’s the just the feeling you get when you walk through the door. If you’re like us, old theaters are fascinating, whether they’re restored ...

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 ...

A Harlem-born comedienne and actress, Zainab Johnson, delivers joyous laughter in her debut comedy special, “Hijabs Off,” a performance that calls to mind standup’s Golden Age, free of the cynicism ...

A vaudeville troupe based out of College Station will soon take the stage in Brenham. This performance, known as “Big Al’s Historical, Almost Authentic, Electrified Vaudeville Show,” will take place ...

There’s one last expedition ahead for Lewis and Clark, the “Sunshine Boys” of vaudeville. It’s 1972, and the elderly Al Lewis and Willie Clark have been asked to perform one of their classic skits on ...

LEFTY'S LETTERS. Lights dim -- curtain about to go up -- Exit laughingly -- Lefty's idea of how it got started -- And they called 'em [i.e., them] dumb acts! -- The last eight bars forte -- Professor!

Jimmy Webb leads us out of Trash and Vaudeville — the famed St. Mark’s store where he works as buyer and manager — to a spot across the street. Over the buildings he points to a white wall that has ...