This weekend Portland’s Darcelle XV will help crown the “most glamorous international female impersonator” at the Convention Center as the culmination of the 40th Le Femme Magnifique Pageant.

We’re celebrating ten years of Our Rich History. You can browse and read any of the past columns, from the present all the ...

After sold out runs in 2018 and 2019, US female impersonator extraordinaire, Randy Roberts is returning to Crazy Coqs this month for three performances of his internationally acclaimed show, 'Drag ...

An advertisement for a female impersonation show at Davy Jones Locker in 1962 in St. Petersburg. [ Times (1962) ] Six years later, Leslie Marlowe also appeared at Davy Jones Locker.

Now retired and in his mid-80s, Bhaduri was considered the last female impersonator of “jatra,” a traveling musical theater tradition in Bengali-speaking parts of northeast India and Bangladesh.

The 1959 movie "Some Like It Hot" was banned in Tennessee in March 2023 as a result of a new state law banning "adult cabaret performances" that feature male or female impersonators.

Her drag career began in the 1970s, and in 1980, she made history as the first Miss Continental, paving the way for countless female impersonators across the country. But Chilli’s influence went ...