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Summer of Magic Launches at N-YHS Tomorrow

As much as it pains me personally to have to report this, the New-York Historical Society is launching a TERRIFIC looking exhibition and program series drawn from and inspired by the collections of magician David Copperfield. Summer of Magic: Treasures from the David Copperfield Collection runs June 15 through September 16. In addition to the items on view, there will be many, many programs about Houdini throughout the summer, one about Adelaide Herrmann (August 4), one about Orson Welles (who was an amateur magician, August 9), a performance by our own Adam Real Man (June 23), and a presentation by Copperfield himself this Saturday June 16. And many many more cool programs, too many to list. Get all the deets here.

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Writer and performer Trav S.D. (www.travsd.com) is best known for his books "No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous" (2005) and "Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube" (2013). He has written for the NY Times, the Village Voice, American Theatre, Time Out NY, Reason, the Villager and numerous other publications. Trav has been in the vanguard of New York’s vaudeville and burlesque scenes since 1995 when he launched his company Mountebanks, presenting hundreds of acts ranging from Todd Robbins to Dirty Martini to Tammy Faye Starlite to the Flying Karamazov Brothers. He has directed his own plays, revues and solo pieces at such venues as Joe’s Pub, La Mama, HERE, Dixon Place, Theater for the New City, the Ohio Theatre, the Brick, and 6 separate shows in the NY International Fringe Festival. In 2014 he produced and directed the smash-hit "I’ll Say She Is", the first ever revival of the Marx Brothers hit 1924 Broadway show in the NY International Fringe Festival.