Cherokee Rose, who won the prize for "most classic" dancer at the 2012 "Great Burlesque Exposition," performs at the opening of this year's conference. (Greg Cook) The crowd arriving last night for ...

Boston burlesque died a painful, bawdy death on Saturday night, when the roaring of "Ballin' the Jack" brought the white certain down for the final in Scollay Square's Casino Theatre. The Metropolitan ...

I recently spent a day in Cambridge that began at an academic conference on cities at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute and ended well into the night at a burlesque show called “Strip Zeppelin’’ held at ...

Even as corsets, feathers, high heels and high kicks were on display at the first-ever Greater Boston Burlesque Exposition last weekend, dolled-up dancers and the fans who went to see them said the ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Though burlesque is thought to be a thing of the past — mainly the 1930s, 40s and 50s — it’s being revived by New England’s leading burlesque troupe, the Boston Babydolls, founded ...

The Boston Babydolls will return to Portsmouth this weekend with a classic show re-imagined, titled "Madame Burlesque." As much an art of the present as it was in the past, the Boston Babydolls aim to ...

The city becomes a stage at First Night Boston, with everything from the iconic ice sculptures in Copley Square to outdoor performances, art installations, concerts and fireworks on Boston Common. But ...

Think of: As a burlesque dancer, she can do horror, humor, or something more traditional. As a comic performer, she can slip from one cheerfully gonzo character to another, like Mo Collins from "MADtv ...