Drag superstar Sasha Velour 'Reveals' Berkeley homecoming with new show

Drag superstar Sasha Velour 'Reveals' Berkeley homecoming with new show

"RuPaul's Drag Race" season 9 winner and Berkeley native Sasha Velour is the queen of reveals. Velour is back in the Bay to finally perform in the place where her journey to drag stardom started.

Drag Star Sasha Velour Is Giving Beauty, Fierceness, Surprise, and a Lecture on Drag In New Solo Show at Berkeley Rep

At turns deeply personal, delightful, and stridently academic, Sasha Velour's 'The Big Reveal Live Show!' brings with it a solid helping of charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent.Berkeley native Sasha Velour has never performed in drag in Berkeley before, and her Bay Area appearances since becoming a nationally known star on Rupaul's Drag Race have been few. Based in Brooklyn, trained in illustration and graphic design, and born to academic par…

How Sasha Velour's "The Big Reveal" Is Redefining Drag in Berkeley - Broke-Ass Stuart's Website

Photo by Greg Endries. Eight years have passed since Sasha Velour won RuPaul’s Drag Race with a stunning rose petal-stuffed number that gave us one big outfit reveal after another. Since then, the quiet art kid spouting theory and art jargon has transformed into an artist who elevates drag by combining it with performance art. Her latest show, The Big Reveal, now playing at Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s Roda Theatre through June 15, is part cabar…