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To celebrate Black History Month, our Wizard Wednesday series for February will highlight Black magicians of magic’s past. Isaac Willis (1878-1933) was working as a messenger at the White House when the legendary Alexander Herrmann hired the small, spunky seventeen-year-old to play his onstage assistant, Boomsky.  Over Herrmann’s long career,...

It’s Wednesday, and our wizard today is Harry Anderson. Harry lovingly embraced magic’s cheekier side in theatrical con games, cheating, hustling, bamboozling, and scamming his way to a laugh. Harry the Hat could throw monte with the best and pull the Fast & Loose chain faster and looser than the...

It’s Wizard Wednesday, in which we feature a photograph of a performer hanging in the entrance to our shop. This week is an early photograph of Jeff McBride, who remembers his early days at Tannen’s. “1540 Broadway was 'my Tannen's'. My first visit was in 1970. It changed my life...

In our second Wizard Wednesday, our new series where we show photographs from the walls of our store, we bring you Doug Henning seen visiting the shop in 1976. This photo, which has been marked for cropping by its editor, accompanied a New York Times piece about Doug's favorite places...

Welcome to Wizard Wednesday! In this new weekly series, we will pick a photo from the wall that greets you at our entrance and take an in-depth look at the performer pictured. Since we're in the heart of New York City, we decided to start with a fellow New Yorker:...