Every seat in the house was packed opening night of the first ever Florida Burlesque Festival at Fort Lauderdale's Cinema Paradiso. Attendees scrambled to save seats for friends who were on their way.

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“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.

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 ...

Columbus-born Fierce! International Queer Performing Arts Festival will celebrate its 10th anniversary this year with a weekend of shows Thursday through Sunday at Slammers and the District West show ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The ghosts of burlesque and a new wave of performers dance all over Cleveland, long after the city was renowned for shake-it sensibilities. Bring on the Ohio Burlesque Festival - at ...

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 ...

New Orleans is a hotbed of musical and culinary talent. But it’s also an incubator for more esoteric skills, sword swallowing, contortion, striptease and fire spinning among them. Snake Oil Festival, ...

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,” ...