'Books and Burlesque' returns to the Lower East Side this weekend
“Books and Burlesque” returns to the small cabaret theater Caveat on the Lower East Side this Saturday.
The first “Books and Burlesque” event took place in 2022 and it has sold out every show since. Saturday’s event is almost sold out, but tickets to the The idea of pairing books with burlesque performers may seem unexpected, but for Fortune Cookie, they’re both ways of telling stories. Cookie assigns each book to a performer, who then has a month to read it and devise an interpretation. She said “Books and Burlesque” mostly spotlights debut authors, though there are exceptions, and she said she’s particularly interested in books that tell queer or “subversive” stories.
“It's hard to get books to break through to people because they're a time commitment,” she said. “I appreciate the desire to bring books into a performative space.”Photo by Rengim Mutevellioglu / Courtesy "Books and Burlesque"
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