The Sissy Butch Brothers Burlesque shows have been the top week-end pick in The Chicago Sun Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Red Eye, The Red Streak, Crane's Chicago Business , and The Chicago Free Press . The shows have also been featured in The Chicago Reader, Newcity, Nightlines, The Windy City Times, and UR Chicago . Check out the Audience Reviews and Photo Galleries below.

In July 2002, The Sissy Butch Brothers began holding sold-out burlesque shows in Chicago to raise money for their documentary on the history and revival of the burlesque art form and industry. Each one has been outrageously successful thanks to the funny, smart, sexy performers and amazing audiences! The shows just keep getting bigger!

"Saturday, July 19th, I went to the Gurlesque Burlesque Extravaganza at the Abbey, and I was completely blown away...Something woke inside me, something that has been lying dormant for a long time; a part of myself that I have now come to realize is a vital part of my existence as a woman, my sexuality... the Sissy Butch Brothers and all the women that were involved in the Gurlesque Burlesque Extravaganza, you've helped me see that there is a femme fatale in every woman, from the fishnets to the fedoras, and you've awakened a little lost dyke."

"Gurlesque Burlesque show was so much fun last night!! I hadn't realized how many dykes there are in Chicago. It was really witty and political and pretty hot."

"I just got home from the Gurlesque show...the show was outstandingly good, superbly fun. I had a blast, and I even went in with a migraine. Just know I can't wait till the next one!"

"I just HAD to tell you how much I enjoyed the show you put on this past weekend. I recently moved to the midwest from San Francisco, and it was so refreshing to be around people as freaky and perverted as me again. Anyways, keep up the good work and Happy Passover."

"I loved how bold the women were.
It actually really thrilled me!"

"Last night's Bad-Ass Burlesque Show was a scream. We only stayed for the first half (due to today's aforementioned early-morning dentist appointment), but the ladies were lovely and the crowd went wild. There were bearded ladies and throaty singers and sassy fan dancers and strip-tease artists who emphasized the tease over the strip (nearly all nipples were chastely pastied), ...a friend exclaimed, "I think we're in a David Lynch movie." It was the anti-Showgirls -- kitschy and playful and damn sexy."

"Oh, I LOVED it! It's just what I thought a good burlesque show should be. It was funny and sexy and political - what more could you ask for?"

"Last night we went to One Bad Ass Burlesque Show. We saddled up to the stage and remained in place for the next two hours. Raucous good fun with the lovely ladies and beautiful butches. Definitely a night out unlike most."

"Never had I more desperately wanted to be a dyke as when I stopped in to the Gurlesque Burlesque show at the Abbey, put on by Sissy Butch Brothers. Such style! Such finesse! Such breasts. A truly erotic feast of costume, dance, and music. Thanks to Sissy Butch for helping to bring the lost art of burlesque roaring back into fashion. Never got up to see the Talking Glory Hole, though. Oh, the stories it must have had to tell!" *Sukie de La Croix

"The acts were AMAZING...I was intrigued by each one. The small girls, the naked girls, the big girls - all were so sexy and hot! Oh, before I get too far ahead, I loved the music before the show started - it was perfect. I think over all the event was SUPERB, sexy, intriguing and a bit magical."

"The performances were sexy, fun, revelrous, insightful, wacky little jewels. I haven't been able to stop thinking about the whole evening."