For those curious and seeking sensual, erotic, creative, and avant-garde experiences, this is your starting point. Whether you’re planning a solo adventure, a date night, a polycule outing, a friends’ night out, or marking a milestone event—or maybe it’s just a Wednesday and you’re craving something spectacular—this directory is designed to guide you.
Burlesque is more than sequins and striptease—it’s historically a parody of culture, a sister to theater, a literary form, and one of nightlife’s most enduring and subversive art forms. It has grown to embrace pole, drag, circus, sideshow, kink, and other performance genres that push boundaries and seduce audiences around the world.
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This Burlesque and Nightlife Directory is personally curated by Switchress Shay Au Lait. Every listing reflects a show, troupe, venue, or production she has scouted, attended, or would recommend. Think of it less as a phone book and more as a sensual map of experiences worth seeking out.
You’ll find burlesque shows, supper clubs, immersive theater, drag spectacles, circus-cabaret mashups, pole and kink-infused nightlife, and everything in between. From the gilded stages of Paris to underground speakeasies in New York, from festival circuits to intimate one-night-only events, this is a living guide to where artistry and eroticism meet.
Browse hand-picked entries including:
Iconic Houses & Venues: Crazy Horse Paris, Moulin Rouge, House of Yes, Company XIV, Proud Cabaret London, Duane Park NYC, Bordel Chicago.
Touring & Festival Productions: Haute Velour, AirOtic, Paranormal Cirque, Burlesque Fests, What The Funk?!, The Burlesque Showboat Cruise.
Regional Scenes & Local Gems: Awkward Sex and the City (NYC), Spellbound Burlesque (AZ), Sugar Blue Burlesque (Perth), Raks Geek (IL), The Brass Menagerie (TN).
Black & Queer Spotlights: Jeezy’s Juke Joint, The Cocoa Butter Club, Black Burlesque Directory, ErotiQueer BurlesQue
Experiences Beyond Burlesque: Sad Brunch (Drag), Sensatia Cirque Cabaret, Soul Penny Circus, SpeakEasy Noir, Siren Pack Productions.
This directory will continue to grow and evolve—reflecting the diverse, decadent, and daring world of nightlife.
Looking for burlesque shows near you? Planning a night out at a burlesque club, drag revue, pole show, or erotic cabaret? Use this curated Burlesque Directory as your guide to find the most sensual, theatrical, and unforgettable nightlife experiences worldwide.
Boutique Hollywood Aerial Studio. For everyone & every”body”. Come For The Aerial, Stay For The Community – Come Fly! Aeriform Arts is a family, a safe and welcoming space where you are encouraged to explore your creativity and are always free to express yourself.
An alluring, sultry, sexy & sensual burlesque cirque-style cabaret! Blending top-tier circus artistry with tasteful burlesque tease!
BIM BAM BOOM is Chicagoland’s hottest burlesque and variety production company! Their signature shows include PEEP SHOW, MONDO BURLESCO & THE CHICAGO VAMPIRE BALL!
The Black Burlesque Directory was created in 2015. Rooted in the desire to fill more productions with Black performers, this directory serves as a tool for performers, curators and producers.
Booklover’s Burlesque is the world’s sexiest literary salon, which matches titillating, inspiring, and empowering book readings with burlesque performances all in one show!
Bordel, located in Wicker Park, is Chicago’s favorite cabaret and cocktail bar, known for its Parisian-inspired speakeasy atmosphere featuring nightly music and entertainment.
Brown Sugar Burlesque is a live cabaret experience with burlesque at its heart, featuring a predominantly Black cast of performers, musicians, and bartenders that celebrates Black artistry and culture both onstage and behind the bar.
Intimate. Grand. Inclusive. Moving. Meaningful. – Their mission is to continue being ritual engineers™, community architects™ and celebration consultants™. Founded in 2017, Cabinet of Curiosity is a nonprofit theater that creates original celebrations and productions.
Club Cumming is a New York City nightspot located in the East Village, owned by actor Alan Cumming, that serves as a performance space and a safe haven for the LGBTQ+ community.
Founded in 2006 by classically-trained, nightlife impresario Austin McCormick, Company XIV produces the most spectacular burlesque performances in NYC.
Le Crazy Horse Saloon or Le Crazy Horse de Paris is a Parisian cabaret and strip club known for its stage shows performed by nude female dancers.
Americas Hottest Pole Dancing Competition that embraces the wild side of pole dancing with performance art in an intimate setting.
Located on the East Village/NoHo border, this space exudes elegance while boasting a few surprises; Duane Park is a NYC burlesque supper club providing a sophisticated and cultured dining experience.
A safe space for Burlesque – Burlesque designed for Empowerment. In person classes, private coaching, and Live performances in Los Angeles. A unique Burlesque Class experience focused on creativity and individual self expression. LGTBQAI+
ErotiQueer BurlesQue is a queer burlesque Troupe in Austin, TX that creates burlesque productions with and for queer people of all identities. Their goal is to amplify Queer voices, and provide opportunities for members of the LGBTQIA+ community to express themselves creatively.
Fabrika brings to Philadelphia a style of entertainment and interactive experience unlike anything the city has seen before. Fabrika is the ultimate playground for an unforgettable night out.
Inspired by Europe’s grand opera houses and the glittering allure of Old Hollywood, the gilded theater showcases ambitious artistic productions, intimate concerts and original cabaret performances.
Haus of Erotique is a professional, award-winning entertainment group based in San Antonio, Texas. Haus of Erotique doesn’t shy away from the racier fringes of the genre & specialize in burlesque & fetish events.
House of Yes is a collective of creatives, performers, and innovators who live to support artistic expression, performance, nightlife, and community. They have created their space as a temple of expression dedicated to connection, creativity and celebrating life.
Jeez Loueez is the creator and host of Jeezy’s Juke Joint: A Black Burly-Q Revue, a yearly entertainment festival and traveling show that spotlights Black burlesque and variety from around the world.
A stylish, dark wood, exposed brick filled hideaway housed on the third floor of a vintage furniture store from the late 1800s. Mathers promotes group interaction in a sophisticated yet comfortable setting.
Metro Cabaret Club is a dynamic, performer-led production house redefining nightlife and live entertainment with electrifying, immersive experiences.
Monarque, Atlas Restaurant Group’s French brasserie located in Baltimore’s Harbor East neighborhood, is inspired by the French era of prosperity.
From a retro guinguette style to an array of glittering rhinestones, the Moulin Rouge invites you to experience an unforgettable evening! An exceptional moment awaits you in its multifaceted 850-seat hall, where you can enjoy both a traditional French gourmet meal and discover the amazing “Féerie” Revue show!
Noveltease Theatre’s mission is to create community through storytelling by reviving the historical artform of literary burlesque.
Classic cars, pinup girls, retro-burlesque and pole champions! A 1955-1965 styled company of cheeky, kustom kulture women and the hot rods they love.
Cincinnati’s sweetest entertainment company. Burlesque, live music, circus artists and more. Queen Bee Cabaret features some of the region’s most bizarre, sensual, and comedic artists.
Rosewood Theater is an adult cabaret, cocktail bar and social club—founded in 2018 from the legendary underground lap dance party, Die Happy Tonight.
Sax Dinner Theater and Lounge is defined by opulence, exceptional service, and world-class entertainment. At Sax, dinner and theater are seamlessly intertwined, creating a unique and immersive experience.
From comedians Dan Goodman and JoAnna Ross comes Schtick A Pole In It, a night of comedy and pole dancing. Comics and pole dancers alternate the stage to create a unique show that leaves everyone happy.