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 ...

Just the other day, I sat on a Zoom meeting with the general manager of a council-run theatre interested in booking my show Hundred Watt Club for an evening’s worth of fun and frolics. I have these ...

Editor's Note: The story previously referenced Roxi D'Lite as a drag queen; she is not. She's a female burlesque performer, and just as fabulous as a drag queen. Thanks for taking it in stride, Roxi.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

'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: ...

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 ...

Next month, I travel to Saint Louis for my very first out-of-town gig. While I saw a few drag shows during college in Santa Fe and have been once to Denver’s Hamburger Mary’s, the bulk of my drag ...

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 ...