Gypsy Rose Lee was one of America's legendary entertainers. On this 100th anniversary of her birth, you may wonder just what makes her legacy endure. Rita Braver can explain: In 1943 she played ...

Based on the memoirs of striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee, the play begins in the 1920s in Seattle. A clamor of kids rehearse for Uncle Jocko’s (Jacob Ming-Trent) kid-focused vaudeville act.

Gypsy Rose Lee never rushed anything, certainly not a strip tease, and apparently not even her artistic rediscovery. “If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly… very slowly,” Lee ...

In the nineteen-thirties, Gypsy Rose Lee, perhaps the world’s most famous stripper, helped transform burlesque from a vulgar pastime to café-society entertainment, simply by acting refined.