{"id":385075,"date":"2026-04-10T13:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T13:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/385075\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T13:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T13:54:08","slug":"sasha-velour-shows-off-5-fantastical-costumes-from-her-new-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/385075\/","title":{"rendered":"Sasha Velour shows off 5 fantastical costumes from her new show"},"content":{"rendered":"

The word \u201ctravesty,\u201d etymologically, is about what people wear. In the 1600s, it meant to dress in disguise, or more specifically, to cross-dress. Only in the 19th century did the word take on its now primary meaning: \u201ca debased, distorted, or grossly inferior imitation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Drag and performance artist Sasha Velour<\/a>\u2019s work often takes on layers of historical meaning, and in her new show, \u201cTravesty,\u201d at Woolly Mammoth Theatre through April 19, the \u201cRuPaul\u2019s Drag Race\u201d winner and star of the HBO reality show \u201cWe\u2019re Here\u201d takes her audience through the history of a fictional drag theater called the Travesty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The word \u201ctravesty,\u201d etymologically, is about what people wear. In the 1600s, it meant to dress in disguise,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-385075","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}