It wasn't just the burlesque girl's twirling tassels that made Nick Kostis fall in love. There was the bawdiness of it all. The humor. The titillation. And the fact that Kostis was just 12 years old, ...

Alexandra the Great “48,” Blaze Starr, Tempest Storm, Lili St. Cyr, Candy Cotton, Sunny Dare, Gypsy Rose Lee: The names are as exotic as the performers themselves. They belong to women who bared skin ...

Lili St. Cyr was not a stripper in the modern sense of the word. She emphasized the tease in striptease, and the leggy platinum blond, who many believe was the inspiration to Marilyn Monroe, was never ...

The most popular burlesque star throughout the Forties and Fifties, Lili St. Cyr influenced Marilyn Monroe, performed with Dean Martin, and danced well into her 50s. Author Kelly DiNardo recounts the ...

Elegant, leggy Lili St. Cyr ruled the burlesque stage from the 1940s to the 1960s. She was known for her innovative routines (one involving a flying G string), six marriages, and the mail order ...

“Madonna’s stylist used to shop at her lingerie store; Dita von Teese performs an onstage bath routine in homage to her; she inspired Marilyn Monroe,” author Kelly DiNardo says of the subject of her ...

A thousand patrons — some having paid as much as 40 cents for a front-row seat — would be shouting. The pit orchestra would be playing, brassy and loud. Listen carefully, and you can almost hear it ...

The horn sings a long, sultry note and the woman on stage slowly peels off a piece of her glittering costume. The drum beats. And she bumps a hip in one direction and then in the other. The music ...

Burlesque was all about entertainment, and so is History Theatre’s world premiere of “Queens of Burlesque,” by David Mann. Lovely actresses perform strip-tease routines, ending up topless with their ...

Be prepared to be entertained by April Showers, the current reigning Miss Hollywood Burlesque at BOOBS, BOOKS AND BURLESQUE on Tuesday, March 8, 2016, at the Culver Hotel in downtown Culver City.

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. It was standing room only Tuesday night as hundreds gathered at The Culver ...

Oddball Films presents Vintage Burlesque Bonanza!, a titillating night of burlesque beauties, oddities, and even animation from the 1930s-1950s all screened on 16mm film from the archive. These erotic ...