What Is This Show?
Nightmares & Daydreams is an immersive evening of pole, burlesque, drag, and theatrical performance where dreams blur into nightmares and fantasy takes center stage.From hauntingly beautiful to delightfully bizarre, each act explores a different corner of the dreamscape through movement, music, storytelling, and unforgettable characters. Expect an evening of dark glamour, surreal imagination, playful fantasy, and eerie spectacle as every performer brings their own unique vision to life.Whether you're drawn to the eerie, the whimsical, the seductive, or the unexpected, there's a dream waiting for you.Come lose yourself in the dream.
What Should I Expect?
đź‘‘ 10 local pole & drag artists
🌜 Immersive Dreamscapes and Fantasys
đź’¸ Cash & digital tipping encouraged
🎉 Crowd interaction welcome
✨ Costumes encouraged
🔞 21+ event, partial nudity
Is there going to be seating?
Priority seating, VIP and tables guarantee seating.
VIP 4 top table (includes 4 admissions)
VIP 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.
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
Christa Obscura
Pole Performer
Christa Obscura is a life long dancer and spent most of her childhood and adolescence training in ballet. She is grateful for the foundation that ballet gave her but longed to find a dance practice that encouraged innovation and free expression. Fortunately in 2012 she found pole dancing and never looked back! She continues to feel liberated by pole everyday. Christa Obscura has been teaching pole dance since 2019, and currently teaches classes every Thursday night at The AERO Space. This year she joined Glow Up and Be Seen as a performance coach, helping other dancers level up. In addition to her pole practice, she owns her own commercial photography and retouching business, and lives on her urban farm with her partner and beloved pets. You can follow her on IG @a_girl_and_her_familiar. She is thrilled to perform for you tonight!
Glambo + Mona Trombona = Glambona!
Draglesque Acrobatics Duet
Mona Trombona & Glambo are international burlesque artists based in Portland, OR. Mona (the tall drink of water with the longest instrument) and Glambo (that one volunteer curly fry in your bag) combine their loves of glamor, nerdiness, and complete gender fuckery to conjure erotic tributes to beloved classics. You will adore their exquisite costuming & magnetic chemistry as they leave you entranced and longing to know what happens between the two after the lights go off.
@glambo.pdx
@monatrombona
Nadia Desdemona
Burlesque Performer
This Portland, Oregon based performer exudes sensuality with a style as flexible as her hypermobile joints. Making waves headlining shows across the United States and performing in various festivals like MetalesqueFest, Australia Burlesque Festival, Winnipeg International Burlesque Festival, and the Queerly Arts Festival. She's the nerdy hottie with a porn star body!
NVi
Pole Performer
NVi is a Portland-based performer and dance teacher whose foundation in ballet meets a love for every style on the floor. Currently specializing in ballroom and pole, she brings precision, performance quality, and fearless expression to the stage- her one true lovePhoto: @crimsonlotia
Melanie
Pole Performer
Melanie is a professional pole dancer, instructor and writer. She teaches at Fig Tree Pole Studio.
Jack Dickastrap
Draglesque
I stumbled into the persona of Jack Dickastrap well exploring gender expression. Jack is the man of my dreams. He is a gentleman with a smile that makes you think of naughtier things. I wanted to see myself as confident, sexy, and alluring and I embrace that side of myself when I step out as Jack. Drag has unlocked the real me, a gender-fluid sassy king with spicy things ready to join the scene. I have been performing for just over a year in the Portland and Eugene area. I debuted thanks to the help of old friends and I've made so many new friends along the way.Photo: @j_sonlarock
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, Katness returns to the stage with Nightmares & Daydreams—a show born from her fascination with the beautiful, bizarre, ridiculous, and occasionally unsettling places our imaginations can take us.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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