Anyone in the French Caribbean islands of Martinique or Guadeloupe during the carnival festivities will witness a unique and wonderfully subversive tradition: le mariage burlesque. As a legacy of the ...

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It has been a long time coming, but the revived world of burlesque is starting to realize that its soul is in New Orleans. The New Orleans Burlesque Festival returns this weekend for its sophomore ...

Spangles, sequins and skin will be on display again as the Hollywood Burlesque Festival takes to the stage this weekend in an expanded show sure to dazzle fans and newcomers alike. One of the founders ...

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 ...

The festival, co-produced by Wisdom, Little Luna and Ginger Licious (of Cirque d'Licious shows), will feature some 70 performers doing about 60 acts over three evenings -- all at the Howlin' Wolf ...

Burlesque, which usually involves a performer removing at least some of their clothing, can be a fun escape, a form of protest or an expression of complex emotions ranging from grief and anger to joy ...

The burlesque performer known as Kater Tot is inspired by pop-culture characters such as Fester Addams. Imagine if a comic-con and a burlesque festival had a baby. That’s how Annie-Mae Allure, the ...

The Vermont Burlesque Festival raised $1,726 for the University of Vermont Cancer Center to support breast cancer research ...