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Kent Reed laughs when asked if he has actually seen a vaudeville show. “I’m not that old,” said Reed, who is in his early 60s.But Reed, a veteran stage director and actor, has seen enough film to know ...

Vaudeville acts ran the gamut, from the knockabout comedy of Buster Keaton and his parents to staid monologists on the Chautauqua circuit. Appropriately, two new books on the topic are likewise ...

The inevitable transition of the year-old Asheville Vaudeville from the cramped quarters at the BeBe Theatre to the generous hallows of Asheville Community Theatre was perfectly timed with Halloween ...

The life of a teenage hoofer who runs away from home to perform on the vaudeville circuit is examined in "My Vaudeville Man!," the second production of York Theater's 40th season. The show is taken ...

In the days before television and radio, two forces in entertainment dominated much of America’s free time: baseball and vaudeville. But the late 19th and early 20th century pastimes were nowhere near ...

When Manhattan’s Palace Theater (most famed two-a-day house in the U.S.)started to show pictures in 1932, U. S. vaudeville was through. Last week, vaudeville got its first full-length biography, by ...

Star Time (produced by Paul Small) is a creaky vaudeville coupé kept moving only because Lou Holtz, a tireless master of ceremonies, is between the shafts. There is one big-time act: the gracefully ...