She captivates the crowd at Jumbo’s Clown Room by night and challenges clients at WundaBar by day. Inside the dual life of ...

A Nutcracker Burlesque” brings candy-coated glamour, subversive humor and a dash of tassels to a holiday classic.

"The Nutcracker" is a classic holiday tale that most could likely recite (or at least hum a few bars of) in their sleep. But what if the confections of Clara's dreams got candy-coated in glamour, ...

In this one-woman clown show at New York’s Cherry Lane Theatre, where it’s running through Dec. 21, Natalie Palamides (above) plays both parts in a story about a couple’s fraught relationship. The ...

Next month, I travel to Saint Louis for my very first out-of-town gig. While I saw a few drag shows during college in Santa Fe and have been once to Denver’s Hamburger Mary’s, the bulk of my drag ...

Cleveland Burlesque conjured up the spirit of Halloween with The Velvet Nocturne, its latest revue. Here’s all the action we saw. Emanuel Wallace is a photographer and journalist from Cleveland, Ohio.

Stars and Garters Burlesque hasn't performed in a theater in about six years, but the troupe didn't go away. They streamed a holiday-themed show in 2020 and did a conceptual performance in a wrestling ...

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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 ...

It’s not often that you hear “Shrek” and “burlesque” in the same sentence — but the “Let’s Get Shrekxy” burlesque show hosted by Cherry Bonbon Productions has taken the Orlando scene by storm. In ...

Anna Smith Higgs was just 24 years old when she suffered from a stroke on Christmas Day in 2004, just a month after the birth of her son, Henry. Devastated, she would spend the next five months in the ...