Ricky Jay, the master-showman magician, actor, scholar, special effects consultant and author who was called “the most gifted sleight-of-hand artist alive” by writers for the most prestigious ...

Even in death, Ricky Jay continues to amaze. The actor, author, scholar and fabled magician who died in 2018 was a popular visitor on local stages and an energetic collector of all things strange, ...

Richard Hatch gave up a career as a physicist to become a magician — and a one-man historical preservation society dedicated to a German author killed in the Holocaust. By David Segal Illusionists, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO — A legendary magician’s personal ...

Ricky Jay: Extraordinary Exhibitions Ricky Jay is one of the world's foremost sleight-of-hand artists, but he's also an author and historian, an actor and film consultant, and a collector of some of ...

Sleight-of-hand magic with playing cards; Off-Broadway show Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants; throwing cards at watermelons While Ricky Jay has long been considered one of the world’s great ...