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 ...

Kaye Ballard, a singer, comic actress and all-purpose entertainer whose antic performances took her from vaudeville and nightclubs to Broadway, regional theaters, and film and television roles, ...

Aerialists and animal acts. Comics, clowns and magicians. Singers, strongmen, dancers and a dog that supposedly talked, counted and predicted the future. And then, there were names like Armstrong, ...

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Saloon-theaters and park pavilions : the birth of southern vaudeville, 1899-1909 -- The death of J. Ed Green and the birth of State Street vaudeville -- The life, death, and untold legacy of Bluesman ...

BAY CITY, MI-- From 1908 to 1927 magicians, singers, comedians -- and even strippers -- graced the stage of the Bijou Theatre, in forms of entertainment known as vaudeville and burlesque. Although ...

Historian and writer Trav S.D. visits Coney Island. (Photo by Bill Scurry) There truly is no business like show business. The late-19th and early-20th centuries witnessed the birth of vaudeville ...