Gem City Burlesque is creating a unique experience by highlighting talented performers from the Dayton area, while taking a step back in time to the days of speakeasys with live music and burlesque ...

Just the other day, I sat on a Zoom meeting with the general manager of a council-run theatre interested in booking my show Hundred Watt Club for an evening’s worth of fun and frolics. I have these ...

Two years ago, the producers of the RVA Burlesque Festival were in mourning: the event they had been planning for years fell victim to the pandemic and was canceled just weeks before showtime. But ...

Creeplesque co-creators Alabaster and Presley Peach want people to get weirder…and bloodier. “We want people acting completely unhinged on stage,” Alabaster says. “We want to entice and allure and ...

CHICAGO -- Ann Weinert has been a performer since she was 15. But the Chicagoan became enamored with the art of American burlesque as an adult in 2007, and her perception of performing in front of ...

“There’s always something very chaotic that happens on stage or off during the Colorado Burlesque Festival,” says Betsy Bootknocker, one of the event’s executive producers. “I’m always curious about ...

On the first night of the Oregon Burlesque Festival, performer Eva D'Luscious takes the stage for a high heel shoe-themed solo act on Sept. 20, 2024. On a warm Friday night in September, a crowd ...

Burlesque has always been a risqué business. It’s tasteful, even when it feels taboo. But that illicit treatment of the art form is what’s hindered off-Strip burlesque from becoming as mainstream as ...

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