Inspired by the era when burlesque dancers’ lives were a continuous feather-and-sequin laden traveling spectacle, a group of New York neo-burlesque performers have taken their show on the road. And ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — A once-thriving burlesque scene is getting a glamorous revival later this month, as local performer and choreographer Jess Worley, known on stage as Scarlett Kiss, prepares to bring ...

Every August the Ohio Burlesque Festival features and attracts performers from all over the country to a three-day celebration of all things burlesque. We stopped by on the second night of the ...

'Some Enchanted Evening, The Songs of Rodgers and Hammerstein' The Hippodrome Theatre invites the public to kick off 2026 with romance, passion, and the music that theatergoers have grown to love: ...

It feels important because every body is a burlesque body in the sense that everybody deserves to be seen as desirable,” Fae ...

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.

Paisley Peach had only seen one burlesque performance before trying her hand at the artform in 2017. Credit: Charla Harvey P aisley Peach’s burlesque career began by accident, but it quickly became a ...

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 ...

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 ...

At nearly every drag and burlesque show, I get asked the same question: How long have you been doing this? I never really know how to respond. The easy, sort of official answer is that I had my ...

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 ...