The Bearded Ladies

The Bearded Ladies

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The Bearded Ladies is an experimental cabaret company. With wit and sparkle we tackle the politics of popular culture, sex, gender, and artistic invention.

06/27/2026

📚 TOMORROW! Join Jarbeaux of The Bearded Ladies Cabaret for a very special Musical Drag Storytime at PCI Free Library. This event is FREE and FUN for all ages!

📆 Saturday June 27th at 10:30 AM
at Philadelphia City Institute (1905 Locust St)
in the Downstairs meeting room

More information: https://libwww.freelibrary.org/calendar/event/171018

📸 by Sav Sousa

Bearded Ladies Cabaret keeps alive the legacy of Philadelphia’s q***r cabaret 06/22/2026

📦 Coming to you from deep, DEEP inside the storage closet! The Bearded Ladies are preparing to unpack 16 years of q***r cabaret baggage in our upcoming installation project Priority Hoarding: A Retrospectacle!

https://whyy.org/articles/bearded-ladies-cabaret-philadelphia-q***r-theater/?

Thank you to Peter Crimmins and WHYY for the feature!
📸 Photos in the article are by Emma Lee/WHYY.

Bearded Ladies Cabaret keeps alive the legacy of Philadelphia’s q***r cabaret “Priority Hoarding,” coming this fall, will invite audiences to sort through 16 years of cardboard props.

06/18/2026

🎉 Happy Opening to “Long Live the Queen: A Her-Story of Drag” created by Bearded Ladies favorite Cookie Diorio and composer Andrea Clearfield! Told across three movements, this work unites drag, opera, cabaret, multimedia performance, chorus, and chamber orchestra in a dynamic exploration of drag’s past, present, and future.Through music and spectacle, “Long Live the Queen” celebrates resilience, imagination, and the transformative power of being seen.

📅 Performances June 18-20
at The Wilma Theater

🎟 https://www.artphilly.org/projects/long-live-the-queen

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Philadelphia, PA
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