Burlesque

An Interview with Billy L’Amour on ‘Gentlemen Prefer Billy’ at Rainbow...

Super-excited to get to talk with Montreal’s oh so fabulous Billy L’Amour, whose career spans ballet, cabaret, and burlesque and is bringing her one-woman...

An Interview with Dr. Torcher on ‘The Weirdo Show’ This Friday...

The Weirdo Show is one of the DC Burlesque and Variety scene’s longest running and most beloved institutions. It started in 2006 and has...

Quinn Lemley on ‘Burlesque to Broadway’ at The Weinberg Center for...

Quinn Lemley is bringing her show Burlesque to Broadway this Friday night, November 6, 2015, at 8 PM to the Weinberg Center for the Arts, in...

Science Fiction ‘Double D-TURE’: ‘The Rocky Horror T*tty Show’ This Friday...

Hello my name is Lucrezia and I am a Rocky Horror-aholic. Like I’ve got “Don’t Dream It, Be It” tattooed on my left bicep....

‘New York Variety All Stars’ at AMP Tomorrow Night at 8...

This Saturday, for the first time ever, the Strathmore’s new venue AMP will be featuring sideshow and variety when Atomic Doll Productions brings the...

‘Nips at Nite’ Plays This Saturday, 9/26@7 & 10:30 PM at...

TimelessTease Productions, a young burlesque troupe out of Baltimore, burst onto the scene last year with a very elaborate and scripted production, Steampunk Seductions....

‘The Burlesque is Coming Tour’ Tomorrow Night at Bier Baron at...

The Burlesque is Coming Tour is a big burlesque deal! This Game of Thrones-inspired tour is making 22 stops across the country – more than...

‘The Glass House, A Sideshow, Variety, and Burlesque Tribute to Geek...

Katherine Dunn’s novel, Geek Love, has awakened and inspired many a carny-hearted performer since it was first published in 1989. Come, enter a world...

‘BROTASSIUM’: A Nutritious Evening of Boylesque This Sunday, July 26th at...

For those who partake of burlesque in the DMV area it’s a pretty steady diet of melons and tomatoes (and certainly there’s nothing wrong...

Buster Britches’ ‘Apocalypse Peep Show’ Coming to Black Cat This Friday,...

If you like to combine your thrills with chills, then you’ll want to be sure to catch The Apocalypse Peep Show, hosted and produced...

Meet the Performers of ‘One Night Only Comedy & Variety Festival’...

For one night only, the State Theatre will host a cavalcade of talent unlike anything you're likely to have seen before. The cast, full...

An Interview with Trixie Little and Evil Hate Monkey

The Burlesque scene in DC and Baltimore is now a pretty vibrant one but once upon a time, about a baker’s dozen years ago,...

Bawdy Shop Burlesque’s ‘Don’t Knock the Block’ Burlesque Hall of Fame...

That bevy of Baltimore beauties known as Bawdy Shop Burlesque have a busy next few months. I recently got a chance to catch up...

An Interview With L’il Dutch

When I first returned to DC “from abroad” in 2009 one of the powerhouses in the local burlesque scene was Li’l Dutch. Besides being...

‘TORCH: Songs from the Gay Life!’ at The Rainbow Theatre Project

A cascade of frothy, kitschy, verbally intricate, and highly theatrical songs pervaded the intimate atmosphere of the Bier Baron Tavern in Washington, DC as...

An Interview with the ‘Strange for Hire’ Sideshow Duo Frankie Sin...

Think that sword swallowing, fire eating, and burlesque are all lost entertainments of a bygone era? Think again. Strange for Hire, presented by Shocked...

An Interview With Reggie Bügmüncher

Burlesque is an adult art form and as such interviews with burlesque performers include adult language. I met Reggie Bügmüncher (pronounced boo-moo-shay) when we both...

The Nativ-A-Tease: A Burlesque-acle on 22nd Street

The Nutcracker, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Miracle on 34th Street… it’s that Christmas Special time of the year when families gather around the plasma flatscreen...

‘Barbarellesque’ is Back This Saturday! Interview with 4 Barbarellas

If you missed Compound 50/50 Productions Barbarellesque last year at the Wind Up Space or this summer at the State Theatre you still have...

An Interview with Rusty Bolts and Bella LaBlanc of ‘Glit-O-Rama: Night...

One of the awesome things (perhaps the most awesome) about burlesque, sideshow, and variety is, in this age of speeding technological advances - they...