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Booklover’s Burlesque: Vile Villains

Crush Bar 1400 Southeast Morrison Street, Portland, OR, United States

It's time to let the bad guys win... Lacy Productions presents BOOKLOVER'S BURLESQUE: Vile Villains Friday, October 18th, 2019 on the Crush Bar stage in Portland, Oregon! Booklover's Burlesque is the Pacific Northwest's sexiest literary salon which matches titillating, inspiring, and empowering book readings with burlesque performances all in one show! Professional readers, actors, and/or local authors & writers read aloud a three to five minute piece of poetry, fiction (from any genre), memoir, non-fiction, etc, which is then followed by a burlesque performance inspired by the piece. Burlesque Artists for this chapter of Booklover's Burlesque include: Nox Falls (Seattle) T.L. Ford Lily Le Fauve David D. Daniels Mz. Chaos Asteria Atombomb Lady Coquine Hosted by the magnificent Megan Skye Hale! Our readers for this…

$18 – $32

BOOKLOVER’S BURLESQUE: The Gothic Edition

Alberta Rose Theatre 3000 NE Alberta St, Portland, OR, United States

Show | 7pm // Doors | 6pm “Deep into that darkness…dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” -Edgar Allen Poe Dream dreams you’ve never dared to dream before and venture into the darkness with us as Lacy Productions and the Alberta Rose Theatre present… BOOKLOVER’S BURLESQUE: The Gothic Edition A Booklover’s Burlesque special edition at the Alberta Rose Theater, where we explore the strange, the mysterious, the creepy, and the unexplained in the sexiest literary way possible, just in time for All Hallow’s Eve! Booklover’s Burlesque is the world’s sexiest literary salon which matches titillating, inspiring, and empowering book readings with burlesque, boylesque, and draglesque performances all in one show! Professional readers, actors, and/or local authors & writers read aloud a three to…

$20 – $30