Jonny Porkpie News

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. 

Coney Island is the place to spend A DAY ON THE BOARDWALK, A NIGHT AT THE STRIPSHO.' This Burlesque Tribute to The Marx Brothers, Sideshow, and Coney Island returns for three night run Memorial Day Weekend.

Jonny Porkpie’s brand new Burlesque+Drag+Gameshow at Lips! SYNC or STRIP! runs on Fridays though April 25, with seating at 9:30pm / show at 10:00pm. Check out photos from the show.

Jonny Porkpie's brand new Burlesque+Drag+Gameshow SYNC or STRIP! is coming to Lips. Running March 21 - April 25 with seating at 9:30pm / show at 10:00pm.

Jonny Porkpie's DEAD SEXY, a burlesque play blending Halloween thrills, will return to Times Square's Laurie Beechman Theater for select performances in October. Enjoy glamorous ghouls and titillating terrors. Learn how to purchase tickets.

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.

Celebrate the centennial of the Marx Brothers' Broadway debut with THE HERRING BARREL REVUE, an evening of Marx-inspired shenanigans in Times Square. This event is the brainchild of Marx Brothers fanatics NOAH DIAMOND, TRAV SD, and JONNY PORKPIE.

They thought they only had enough stripping Jews for a single night... Instead, the candles kept burning on The Schlep Sisters Menorah Horah for another 15 years!

Jen Gapay of Thirsty Girl Productions and Daniel Nardicio will present The 6th Annual New York Boylesque Festival, November 3rd at Club Cumming, and November 4th at The Highline Ballroom.

Jen Gapay of Thirsty Girl Productions and Daniel Nardicio will present The 6th Annual New York Boylesque Festival, November 3rd at Club Cumming, and November 4th at The Highline Ballroom.

The Schlep Sisters & Thirsty Girl present the 10th Annual Menorah Horah! on Today, December 24th at The Highline Ballroom.

The Schlep Sisters & Thirsty Girl present the 10th Annual Menorah Horah! on Saturday, December 24th at The Highline Ballroom.

Terror has never been so titillating... 'Dead Sexy: The Off-Broadway Play,' returns to The Elektra Theater for Halloween, running October 16, 23 & 30 at 8:00pm, and Oct 29 at 11:59pm.

In the grand tradition of 24 hour playwriting festivals (but naughtier!), this explosive event challenges an audacious cast of striptease stars to conceive, create, develop, and perform an entire scripted burlesque show in just 69 hours.

In the grand tradition of 24 hour playwriting festivals (but naughtier!), this explosive event challenges an audacious cast of striptease stars to conceive, create, develop, and perform an entire scripted burlesque show in just 69 hours.

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." 

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).

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.  

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.

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.