Bastard Keith News

On Saturday May, 4 at 10PM at STAGE 72, Gotham Burlesque will kick-off summer with a hot streak as the show welcomes sizzling headliner and beauteous burlesque star MADAME ROSEBUD.

Tonight, February 14 at 10PM, the GOTHAM BURLESQUE Valentine's Day Show at STAGE 72 (158 West 72nd Street) is a romantic and thrilling way to celebrate Valentine's Day with the one you love...and some of burlesque's sexiest stars.

This month on Thursday, February 14 at 10PM, the GOTHAM BURLESQUE Valentine's Day Show at STAGE 72 (158 West 72nd Street) is a romantic and thrilling way to celebrate Valentine's Day with the one you love...and some of burlesque's sexiest stars.

This December, partake in the ultimate live stocking stuffer at the GOTHAM BURLESQUE Holiday Show tonight, December 15 at 10PM at STAGE 72 (158 West 72nd Street).

This December, partake in the ultimate live stocking stuffer at the GOTHAM BURLESQUE Holiday Show on Saturday, December 15 at 10PM at STAGE 72 (158 West 72nd Street).

Revealed will have its one-night-only special return engagement at the Krane Theater tonight, November 14 at 8PM. Hosted by devilishly charming master of ceremonies Bastard Keith, this show stars the most beloved burlesque performers in New York City and beyond. Come out and experience an evening of salacious striptease and skin, where the climax of each number leaves everything…Revealed.

Revealed will have its one-night-only special return engagement at the Krane Theater on Wednesday, November 14 at 8PM. Hosted by devilishly charming master of ceremonies Bastard Keith, this show stars the most beloved burlesque performers in New York City and beyond. Come out and experience an evening of salacious striptease and skin, where the climax of each number leaves everything…Revealed.

Before the comedy boom of the 1980s began dotting New York and every other major American city with clubs devoted exclusively to showcasing stand-ups, comedians worked primarily between sets at music venues or at random comedy nights at bars and restaurants.  And while the emergence of burlesque as a form of female-empowered entertainment where men and women both cheerfully whoop it up for their favorite ecdysiasts is still only an occasional feature of variously appointed venues, I do think we're heading in a direction where before the end of this decade we'll be seeing the emergence of burlesque clubs – much like today's Comedy Clubs and jazz clubs – providing nightly opportunities for good, clean, non-judgmentally positive body image fun.

Sophie's choice was a casual coin flip compared with decision forced upon a young mother in Alexander Dinelaris' drama recalling the Ottoman Empire's Armenian genocide, Red Dog Howls.  As a 91-year-old grandmother enduring life with the memory of a horrific confrontation with three sadistic Turks, Kathleen Chalfant gives an extraordinarily convincing performance balancing pain and dark humor, climaxing with an agonizing scene where she reveals a sickening secret.  But Chalfant's performance, certainly worth remembering when award season comes along, is all the production has to recommend.

Horse Trade Theater Group announces the fall and early spring lineup for their 14th season, which will include World Premiere productions from Horse Trade's newest resident companies, Theater in Asylum, Less Than Rent, Slash Coleman, and Spookfish Theatre Company and veteran residents Grayce Productions, Dysfunctional Theatre Company, and The Pumpkin Pie Show.

The Metropolitan Room is proud to announce that they now have a bi-weekly Ole Fashioned Burlesque Show at The Metropolitan Room - THE BEST IN NYC. It's Sophisticated. It's Exciting. It's Entertaining. It's a MUST SEE. A guaranteed memorable experience.

New York's intimate concert venue will become even more intimate beginning Friday August 10. On that historic night the Metropolitan Room, 34 West 22nd Street, adds a daring ingredient to its programming mix when it introduces one of Gotham's most talked-about burlesque revues, the sly and spry THE SOPHISTICATES.

New York's intimate concert venue will become even more intimate beginning Friday August 10. On that historic night the Metropolitan Room, 34 West 22nd Street, adds a daring ingredient to its programming mix when it introduces one of Gotham's most talked-about burlesque revues, the sly and spry THE SOPHISTICATES.

Horse Trade Theater Group announces the fall and early spring lineup for their 14th season, which will include World Premiere productions from Horse Trade's newest resident companies, Theater in Asylum, Less Than Rent, Slash Coleman, and Spookfish Theatre Company and veteran residents Grayce Productions, Dysfunctional Theatre Company, and The Pumpkin Pie Show.

Horse Trade Theater Group has announced the following events for August.