Program areas at Bearded Ladies Cabaret
Late night snacks - the Bearded Ladies create temporary platforms for artists from the international community of drag, queer performance, opera, Cabaret, and nightlife to perform. This series of programs will be a mobile festival of performance on a truck in spring 2021. The Bearded Ladies work with partner organizations and artists to curate over 70 artist/groups each september, serving over 3,000 people annually and mixing international and local Cabaret, opera, drag, and performance artists. Accessibility is a key value for this program and all Bearded Ladies programs. Tickets/admission to late night snacks always include a pay-what-you-decide and/or free option designed to combat lack of accessibility to the arts in philadelphia.
Beards on ice - come release your anxiety with the Bearded Ladies Cabaret as they hit the ice at independence blue cross river rink winterfest for a show that's cool to the touch but hot to its core. Expect bracing comedy, wild camp, sultry costumes, wintry spectacle, and the worlds last polar bear. Beards on ice comes in two flavors beards on ice edging and kid- friendly family skate. Same great themes, different flavors of edginess. Both hour-long shows end with a free skate perfect for all skill levels. Hosted by jarbeaux and featuring local drag superstars with varying levels of skating experience, including bren thomas, messapotamia lefae, mk tuomanen, veronica-chapman smith, and professional skater michael solonoski. Catch this iceberg of a performance before it melts away.
The beard mobile - gets into her finest book-lover drag for a family- friendly show about libraries and the people who make them so wonderful. Check it out celebrates phillys free libraries as places of freedom for all families with especial love to families who are queer, questioning, and learning who they are. Filled with songs, books banned and not, drag, glitter, joy, and community. Check it out is hosted by form librarian and current rock star sam rise and features hip-hop collective ill doots with Cabaret dream lili st queer.