The standing of a Kansas City burlesque show with twisted secrets is threatened by the local political climate as police officers target the provocative business.

An enigmatic, aging nightclub hostess finds her cool exterior challenged when an unexpected marriage proposal comes from a millionaire admirer.

A circus clown in unrequited love with the girl on the flying trapeze attempts to explain how he ended up onstage, pantless and pelted with trash, while lions ate the flying trapeze girl's lover.

A 30-year-old lesbian businesswoman goes to a strip club with the other businessmen in hopes of winning a contract, but is surprised by her connection to one of the dancers—despite her hopes of playing it cool. As she ruminates over the connection, an old friend shows up and tells her information that upends everything she thinks she knows about her life.

A young screenwriter in Los Angeles is exposed to the corruption beneath the glamorous Hollywood lifestyle after befriending a director and his wife.

A show arrives in a small town, promising the performance of a lifetime, in which a small, mute woman will dive into a shallow pool surrounded by flames from a diving board that reaches the sky.

In modern-day Los Angeles, a young lesbian woman lives next door to an actress she's been a fan of since the actress was an underground drag queen in New York. The actress pitches an idea for a TV show to the woman, whose partner is a children's show producer.

Two men putting on a production for their New York theater company seek out a legendary, elderly actor, but upon finding him, they meet a man as dilapidated as the theater he once worked for.

A county fair performer two-timed by his acrobat lover decides he'll get his revenge in a final, deadly act.

Onstage at a club, a lesbian couple perform a sexually explicit act, aroused by a complex ruse they construct using ventriloquism.