The 22nd Annual New York Burlesque Festival Set For Next Month
The New York Burlesque Festival is the largest and most acclaimed festival of its kind in the world and has attracted sold-out crowds since its premiere in 2003. This October, Thirsty Girl Productions will serve up 4 nights of glitter and glamour in Gotham with over 100 eye-popping performances from international leading burlesque and variety entertainers at four of NYC’s hottest nightclubs.
Times Scare to Close
On Monday, Times Scare announced in an email to staff that the Haunted House will close its cobweb-covered doors indefinitely on Monday, December 7. Undaunted by this news, the burlesque events that have been a staple of the venue since 2013 will continue, steadfastly upholding their mission of "bringing nudity back to Times Square."
THE 2015 WINTER BURLESQUE BLITZ Comes to The Kraine This December
De-stress from the holiday season with burlesque tributes to The Muppets, reality TV, Stephen Sondheim, The Bible, and full-frontal male nudity. The 2015 Winter Burlesque Blitz presented by FRIGID New York @ Horse Trade will run December 27-30 at The Kraine Theater (85 East 4th Street between 2nd Avenue and Bowery).
Theatrical Burlesque Company Pinchbottom Explores the Fantasy Realm of Your Fantasies SWORD, SORCERY & STRIPTEASE
Since Pinchbottom's theatrical debut in 2006, the company has parodied innumerable genres of literature, film, theater, and television - science fiction, spy, western, noir, cirque, sports, biblical, mystery, adventure, Broadway, superhero, mafia, and more. It would seem the dramatic burlesquers taken on every variety of entertainment imaginable… but there's one realm into which they've never ventured: Fantasy.
DEAD SEXY Moves Off-Broadway for Halloween
Times Square's favorite psychotic ecdysiast physician finally tells all as he attempts to bring his long-lost beloved back from the beyond, in this arousingly alarming -- and alarmingly arousing -- new play from the playwright of Pinchbottom Theatrical Burlesque ('Best Burlesque' in NYC, New York Magazine/Village Voice) written just for Halloween 2015.
DEAD SEXY to Move Off-Broadway for Halloween
Times Square's favorite psychotic ecdysiast physician finally tells all as he attempts to bring his long-lost beloved back from the beyond, in this arousingly alarming -- and alarmingly arousing -- new play from the playwright of Pinchbottom Theatrical Burlesque ('Best Burlesque' in NYC, New York Magazine/Village Voice) written just for Halloween 2015.
13th Annual NY Burlesque Festival to Run 9/24-27
The 13th Annual New York Burlesque Festival will feature four days of award-winning burlesque performance with an international cast that includes living burleque legend Judith Stein, the 2008 Queen of Burlesque Angie Pontani, the 2006 Miss Exotic World Julie Atlas Muz and winner of the 2012 Burlesque Hall of Fame's "Best Boylesque" performance Russell Bruner. Weekend Passes available via Brown Paper Tickets.
4th Annual BOYlesque Festival Comes to NYC Today
Jen Gapay of Thirsty Girl Productions (voted #1 most influential/non-performing women in burlesque) and Daniel Nardicio, NYC's 'Best Gay Party Promoter' (Village Voice), join forces for The 4th Annual New York Boylesque Festival, today and tomorrow, May 8th & May 9th, 2015.