Dita Von Teese News

The Byrd Hoffman Water Mill Foundation celebrated its 23rd Annual Summer Benefit & Auction, a one-of-a-kind evening bringing together over 1,000 guests from the worlds of theater, art, performance, fashion, design, and society at The Watermill Center on Saturday, July 30. The event, entitled FADA: HOUSE OF MADNESS, featured new works by Watermill's International Summer Program participants that came from over 25 countries to create installations and performances throughout the eight and-a-half acre grounds. This year, The Watermill Center honored Madame Giancarla Berti.

 Strippers speak, musicians muse and drag queens dare to share. Seen & Heard will feature some of Melbourne's finest variety artists doing what they do best, as well as sharing true tales of their lives behind the limelight.

For burlesque fans, this will surely go down in their diaries as the event of a lifetime.

?Exploring what Cabaret can be is what Artistic Directors Ali McGregor and Eddie Perfect set out to explore in this year's Adelaide Cabaret Festival.  If you have a desire to dive into the unknown and find out just WHAT COMES NEXT, the 2016 program is for you! Opening tonight the 16 day spectacular features 150 performances starring more than 425 artists from Australia and worldwide all produced and presented by Adelaide Festival Centre.

Dita Von Teese is the world's most famous burlesque star and will be making her Adelaide debut in Strip, Strip Hooray on Monday 13 June in the Festival Theatre. From the moment Adelaide Cabaret Festival was on sale Dita clearly became the 'hot ticket' to secure and her show sold out in the first week! With such an overwhelming response, Adelaide Cabaret Festival is excited to announce an additional show of Strip, Strip, Hooray on Thursday 23 June at 7.30pm in the Festival Theatre. Tickets for this show will go on sale on Friday 13 May.

MasterVoices (formerly The Collegiate Chorale) continues the 2015-2016 season with Henry Purcell and Nahum Tate's tempestuous Baroque opera, DIDO AND AENEAS, tonight, April 28, 2016 at 7pm and tomorrow, April 29, 2016 at 8pm at New York City Center, 131 W. 55th Street, New York City.

A friendly reminder! MasterVoices (formerly The Collegiate Chorale) continues the 2015-2016 season with Henry Purcell and Nahum Tate's tempestuous Baroque opera, DIDO AND AENEAS, on April 28, 2016 at 7pm and April 29, 2016 at 8pm at New York City Center, 131 W. 55th Street, New York City.

Full program and tickets are on sale to subscribers from Sunday 3 April and the general public from Wednesday 6 April through BASS 131 246 or online www.adelaidecabaretfestival.com.au Program details are available in the Adelaide Cabaret Festival brochure, get one free by calling BASS 131 246 or log onto the Cabaret Festival website.

Kitten N' Lou are... OVEREXPOSED! running 26-31 February at 8:30pm at The Butterfly Club, 5 Carson Place, off Lt Collins Street.

Electric Wild West circus, cabaret, The Raunch, rides into town this Spring to lay siege to the Southbank.  A modern day sexy, spectacular, melding state of the art technology with whip-cracking energy and featuring a rogues gallery of the most wanted bad-asses this side of Dodge City, the show is set to take London Wonderground by storm as their 2016 opening headliner.  

Actor Christopher Logan, Guest-Star of the upcoming X-Files episode 'Founder's Mutation' (Jan.25th) and films 'Connie and Carla', 'Saving Silverman' and 'Tron Legacy', has produced a coffee table book of top burlesque stars. 'BURLESQUE' is the follow up to 'dr.a.g.' (for dressed as girl), which celebrated top drag performers and was chosen as a VIP Gift at the Sundance Film Festival's Independent Filmmaker's Lounge both this year and last. Logan makes books to raise funding for independent film projects. 'A new way to turn a book into a movie', he quips. 'Connie and Carla' connected Logan to the drag community allowing the first book to come together. 'The drag performers were very welcoming and open to the idea. Everyone was thrilled with the final book.' After 'dr.a.g.', comes 'BURLESQUE', a 160-page large-format book, filled to the brim with stunning full-colour photography of stars Immodesty Blaize (UK), Kalani Kokonuts (Vegas), Little Miss Risk (Vancouver), LouLou D'vil (Finland), the renowned Dita Von Teese, and even a few men like The Stage Door Johnnies. 'Drag is too much fashion for one gender', says Logan. 'Burlesque is when you leave it all on the floor'. 'Exploring the diversity within a subculture allows us to see all sides of it', he says. 'These photographs speak for themselves, letting the performers showcase themselves doing what they do best, with their own signature style'. A nice bit of trivia: the book's back cover photo of Little Miss Risk was shot by Ed Araquel, who was the Stills Photographer on the X-Files shoot. 'BURLESQUE' is available at www.bookthefilm.com Cover photo by Karl Giant, Model: Meow Meow.

From the creators of the international award-winning hit La Soiree Adelaide Festival Centre presents the Adelaide premiere of their brand new show CLUB SWIZZLE at Adelaide Festival Centre from tonight 29 December 2015.

Kitten N' Lou are... OVEREXPOSED! running 26-31 February at 8:30pm at The Butterfly Club, 5 Carson Place, off Lt Collins Street.

From the creators of the international award-winning hit La Soiree Adelaide Festival Centre presents the Adelaide premiere of their brand new show CLUB SWIZZLE at Adelaide Festival Centre from 29 December 2015.

FYI adds two new original series, 'Get Swank'd' and 'Style Unzipped,' delving into the world of fashion, style and trends - both past and present.

FYI adds two new original series, "Get Swank'd" and "Style Unzipped," delving into the world of fashion, style and trends - both past and present.

Ars Nova has announced the lineup for Bridget Everett Gets F*cked by Ars Nova, a one-night-only blow-out concert celebrating everyone's favorite badass b*tch, alt-cabaret priestess and Ars Nova All Star, Bridget Everett. In addition to Everett herself, the benefit concert, directed by Scott Wittman (Hairspray, Rock Bottom), will feature tributes, roasts and send-up performances from Grammy and Tony Award-winner Patti LuPone and actor, comedian and Emmy-nominee Billy Eichner. Comedians, drag queens and entertainers aplenty round out the lineup, including Jim Andralis, DJ Jonjon Battles, Justin Vivian Bond, John Early, Cole Escola, Dan Finnerty, Murray Hill, Champagne Jerry, DJ Sammy Jo, Larry Krone, Erin Markey, Molly Pope, Marc Shaiman, Sweetie, The Tender Moments (Matt Ray, Mike Jackson, Carmine Covelli and Adam 'Ad-Rock' Horovitz), Chris Tyler, Varsity Interpretive Dance Squad (VIDS); plus a few fun surprises.

amfAR will honor Cher, Felipe Diniz and Jean Paul Gaultier at the fifth annual Inspiration Gala São Paulo on April 10, 2015, in recognition of their contributions to the fight against AIDS.

Ars Nova has announced the lineup for Bridget Everett Gets F*cked by Ars Nova, a one-night-only blow-out concert celebrating everyone's favorite badass b*tch, alt-cabaret priestess and Ars Nova All Star, Bridget Everett. In addition to Everett herself, the benefit concert, directed by Scott Wittman (Hairspray, Rock Bottom), will feature tributes, roasts and send-up performances from Grammy and Tony Award-winner Patti LuPone and actor, comedian and Emmy-nominee Billy Eichner. Comedians, drag queens and entertainers aplenty round out the lineup, including Jim Andralis, DJ Jonjon Battles, Justin Vivian Bond, John Early, Cole Escola, Dan Finnerty, Murray Hill, Champagne Jerry, DJ Sammy Jo, Larry Krone, Erin Markey, Molly Pope, Marc Shaiman, Sweetie, The Tender Moments (Matt Ray, Mike Jackson, Carmine Covelli and Adam 'Ad-Rock' Horovitz), Chris Tyler, Varsity Interpretive Dance Squad (VIDS); plus a few fun surprises.

Smithsonian Channel will premiere the second season of its critically-acclaimed original series L.A. FROCK STARS, which follows the doyenne of Hollywood vintage, Doris Raymond, and her Los Angeles shop The Way We Wore, tonight, March 19 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.