As the popularity of burlesque has spread around the globe, the New Orleans Burlesque Festival’s Queen of Burlesque competition has become a coveted crown. “New Orleans was my biggest dream,” says ...

Poison Ivory remembers one of the first times she stepped onstage, just four years ago, as an inexperienced burlesque performer in New York, at the weekly “Le Scandal” cabaret show. The audience was ...

The ninth annual Colorado Burlesque Festival is returning to Denver to give audiences the ol’ razzle dazzle once again, bringing together burlesque artists and fans from across the nation for an ...

The 3rd Annual INTERNATIONAL BOOKLOVER'S BURLESQUE FESTIVAL is a one-of-a-kind sensual literary weekend celebration of four uniquely different BOOKLOVER'S BURLESQUE shows that highlight a mix of ...

On Saturday night, October 5th, the New Yorker Festival will stage what is certainly its first burlesque show, but of the up-to-date variety, called The New Burlesque. I first went to a new-burlesque ...

Think of it as a convention of tassels, pasties and feather fans. Boasting five distinctive burlesque shows, nine workshops and a host of parties, the sixth annual New Orleans Burlesque Festival opens ...

“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.

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The New York Burlesque Festival is the largest and most acclaimed festival ...

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 ...

The organizers of the New Jersey Burlesque Festival knew there was precisely one Garden State city that could serve as the event's host city: Asbury Park. “We wanted to have a festival that ...