What Is This Show?
Leave the winter blues at the door.Step out of the cold and into a night of rock-and-roll decadence, sensuality, and glorious indulgence.Experience an unforgettable lineup of Portland's talented pole dancers, drag artists, burlesque performers, and variety entertainers, bringing their unique artistry to the stage. Set to a soundtrack of rock, blues, folk, and alternative music, each act offers something different—seductive, powerful, playful, provocative, or delightfully unexpected.Expect dazzling costumes, incredible talent, a little mischief, and plenty of reasons to cheer.This isn't a night for restraint. It's a celebration of self-expression, pleasure, and the extraordinary performers who make Portland's cabaret scene so vibrant.For one night, the stage is our altar, the performers are our pantheon, and you are invited to worship.
What Should I Expect?
👯 10+ local Pole, Drag, & Burlesques Artists
🎶 Rock, Blues, Folk, & Alternative Music
🔞 21+ Event | Partial Nudity
💸 Cash & Digital Tipping Encouraged
🎉 Cheer Loudly! Audience Enthusiasm Welcome
✨ Dress to Indulge! Come As You Are or Dress Up
Is there going to be seating?
Priority seating, tables guarantee seating.
4 top table (includes 4 admissions)
2 top table (includes 2 admissions)The 4 and 2 top tables are the upper split level near the bar.
Priority seating is row seating near the stage on the sunken floor.There is also first-come, first-server seating available around the venue.
Dress to indulge!
Think rock-and-roll rebellion meets dark winter decadence. Whether you're feeling rebellious, mysterious, glamorous, or downright divine, here's a little inspiration.🖤 Rockstar Glam
Leather, ripped denim, band tees, studs, chains, and dramatic eyeliner.
🔮 Witchy & Mystical
Flowing fabrics, corsets, celestial jewelry, and mysterious silhouettes.
🥀 Dark Romance
Velvet, lace, fishnets, dark florals, and deep jewel tones.
❄️ Winter Deities
Faux fur, icy shimmer, metallics, crowns, and otherworldly glamour.
🔥 Decadent Excess
Sequins, glitter, big hair, bold makeup, and anything that makes you feel divine.Come as you are, or come as your alter ego.
Dressing up is encouraged, never required.
Listen to our Spotify Playlist
🕯️ Get in the mood and listening to the playlist that inspired it all 🕯️
Venue Information
Star Theater
13 NW 6th Ave
Portland, OR 97209The Star Theater is located in downtown Portland near the corner of Burnside Street and SW 6th Ave.
Parking
Additionally, there are two parking lots less than a block from our front entry.
NW Couch between 5th and 6th Avenues
SW Burnside between Broadway and 6th AvenuesThe Star Theater lies outside of the Entertainment District’s weekend car-free zones.
Public Transit
Star Theater is conveniently located right on the Tri-Met transit mall on NW 6th Avenue between Burnside and Couch Streets. It is also directly on the Green and Yellow MAX lines.Northbound trains: disembark at the NW 6th and Davis stop and proceed one block south.
Southbound trains: disembark at the NW 5th and Couch stop and proceed one block west.
Meet the Cast
Atlas
Emcee & Drag Performer
Atlas Is a a Portland based singer songwriter/drag performer/ party producer and all around performance artist. She has lived in Portland just over 11 years now and she’s done a little bit of everything from Hosting sold out brunches, karaoke nights all over the city and dance parties you truly had to see to believe. Recently she’s taken a step back from the hustle of the drag and party world to focus on her music career . She is currently in the studio finishing up her debut album “a million ways to mourn your mother”. She is so excited to get back on a mic again after POP PRINCESS and who knows she just might have a number or two up her sleeve as well.Photo: @crystalcaptures.photos
Bambi Bitters
Draglesques Performer
Bambi Bitters (she/they/it) returns to the Sinister and Sweet Productions stage!! A Portland, OR based Burlesque and Drag Performer, Bambi Bitters has been performing throughout Oregon and the PNW since June 2025! Inspired by all things dark and horror, but also loving the cheesy, campy and pop-culture side of things, you can always expect to see some weird, nerdy, sparkly, and spine- tingling performances from her! With more than a decade of costume experience and almost as much in dance, and after a hiatus from both, she returned to the stage and now she gets to combine her passion for both Costuming and Performing in exciting new ways!! They're a plus-size and neurodivergent baddie, here to prove to everyone, themselves included, that bodies of every shape and size are hot as hell!Photo: @crystalcaptures.photos
Jax
Pole Performer
Jax is a two time Exotic Magazine competition champion winning the titles of Polerotica 2022 and Miss Exotic Oregon 2024. She is a multi-skilled performer training in pole, aerial, and contortion. In the spring, you can catch her in action on the field with the Oregon Ravens, your local professional women’s tackle football team!Photo: @whatever.photopdx
Bee
Pole Performer
Bee is a lifelong dancer and performer. They have been training and performing aerial for a few years now and are always excited for a new challenge. Bee likes to focus on movement quality and flow when they’re on stage and commanding the attention of the audience.
Lady Sadie
Drag
Lady Sadie is a lifelong dancer that loves the weird. Sadie walks the line between haunting and horny, leaving you with confusing new kinks.
Originally from Florida, currently lives in Eugene, and can most often be found at your mom’s house.
Azara Rose
Pole Performer
Azara Rose is a Portland based stripper, teacher, and performer. She loves blending strength and fluidity to create gooey sensual flow. She brings that special stripper magic to her performances, and invites you to sit back and be seduced!
Melanie
Pole Performer
Melanie is a professional pole dancer, instructor and writer. She teaches at Fig Tree Pole Studio.
Katness
Producer + Pole Performer
Katness is a Portland pole performer, producer, and professional maker of questionable creative decisions. Drawn to storytelling, theatricality, and a little bit of the unexpected, she loves using pole to create performances that are equal parts sensual, playful, and strange.After producing and performing in Pop Princess and Nightmares & Daydreams, Katness returns with Midwinter Indulgence, a show born from her love of rock, blues, folk, and alternative music. Inspired by the age-old traditions of feasting and revelry during winter's darkest days, she's inviting everyone to embrace a little decadence, worship the extraordinary, and rock the winter blues away.When she isn't producing shows, Katness can usually be found somewhere between a pole, a sewing machine, and an idea that's gotten wildly out of hand.Photo: @crystalcaptures.photos
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