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New Orleans, Louisiana
St. Claude burlesque-and-cabaret hall staging several shows a night.
The AllWays Lounge & Cabaret is a performance hub on St. Claude Avenue, just outside the French Quarter in the St. Claude Arts Corridor. Owned and run by Zalia Beville for more than 16 years, it bills itself as the longest-running burlesque cabaret still operating in New Orleans, and the multi-room space backs that up by staging three to five shows a night—burlesque, drag, comedy, circus arts, and the occasional erotic reading. The programming leans queer and experimental, with recurring revues like the 'Sisters of St. Claude' and 'Qween Quan's Queer Content Cabaret' giving a stage to underground and emerging LGBTQ+ performers. It's a 21+ room rooted in the city's DIY performance culture, which makes it a different proposition from the Bourbon Street bars: you come here to sit and watch genuinely local talent, not to drink at a dance floor. For travelers who want the artier, off-Quarter side of queer New Orleans, it's worth the trip across Esplanade.
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