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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The 13th International Ohio Burlesque Festival will be Thursday, August 7, to Saturday, August 9, at Beachland Ballroom & Tavern in Cleveland. Using the theme “Art is Resistance,” ...

Feb. 8—Spend Valentine's Day weekend at the fifth annual New Mexico Burlesque Festival, where sensuality and the human body are celebrated to the highest degree. Burlesque is an entertainment form ...

“Burlesque is considered the art of the tease and the thing about tease is that it can be damn near anything,” Murphy Lawless, a nonbinary producer of the first RVA Burlesque Festival, said.

Someone once told a novice burlesque performer that “funk music isn’t really classic burlesque music.” A new Seattle documentary, starring the same performer who ignored that critique and created a ...

Sugarpill, photo by Marty Davis. Carol Gates has been a Portland drag fan for 15 years, and a burlesque/drag performer for almost as long. She’s dreamed of bar hopping to clubs filled wall to wall ...

A brand new theater festival in Syracuse will host a week-long slate of shows around town, from comedy bits to performances from RuPaul’s Drag Race contestants to a live podcast recording. The ...