Upcoming Shows
YOU!!! Get your asses to our shows.
**Only if you're 18+, people! Burlesque ain't for kiddies.
Torch and cabaret ballads; sultry Euro electronica and nu-jazz; 1920s jazz; the Rat Pack's brand of swing; 1960s blues-rock; gothic new wave; 90s pop; anarcho punk cabaret and gypsy rock; all things raunchy and fun
Cabaret, All That Jazz, Purple Rain, Blazing Saddles, Morocco, the Rocky Horror Picture Show, all the burlesque documentaries we can get our hands on -- especially the Velvet Hammer Burlesque and Striptease: the Greatest Exotic Dancers of All Time
Thank heavens for DVR!
Striptease: the Untold History of the Girlie Show, by Rachel Shteir
Horrible Prettiness: Burlesque and American Culture, by Robert C. Allen
Weimar Culture: the Outsider as Insider, by Peter Gay
Can We Do That? Outrageous PR Stunts That Work -- and Why Your Company Needs Them, by Peter Shankman
Burlesque and the New Bump-n-Grind, by Michelle Baldwin
Fosse Fosse Fosse! PRINCE, Dean Martin, Madeline Kahn, Gilda Radner, Marlene Dietrich, The World Famous Pontani Sisters, Michelle L'amour, Nina Simone, Gravity Plays Favorites, the women of Velvet Hammer Burlesque, Sabrina Blaze, Lili Von Schtupp, Dixie Evans, Gypsy Rose Lee (duh), Tina Turner, Jennifer Saunders, Tim Curry, Alan Cumming, Eddie Izzard, Margaret Cho, Cab Calloway, Mel Brooks, Barbara Streisand circa 1960s (pre-Mecha-Streisand), Bette Midler, Tracey Ullman, John Waters, the Steamy Bohemians, and every homegrown goddess out there working her ass off and changing the way people think about women, sex, and BURLESQUE