DIVA or Die: Guillotine Romance - SF
Schedule
Fri, 13 Feb, 2026 at 07:30 pm
UTC-08:00Location
988 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, CA, United States, California 94133 | San Francisco, CA
$40 General AdmissionDoors at 7:30pm.
Show from 8:15-10:30pm with one intermission
$3 off each ticket when you use the code earlybird3 at checkout.
Offer ends February 8th.
Promo Codes are not applicable at the door.
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Start your Valentine’s Day right and come lose your head at DIVA or Die: Guillotine Romance. At our show, romance will trip, stumble, and careen into a dark alley where it loses its head (and its heart) in a glittery arterial spray. Join us on Friday, February 13th for a burlesque mashup of love, lust, horror, and just the right amount of screaming.
At DIVA or Die, we don’t take romance lightly. Inspired by slasher films, doomed love stories, and the French Revolution, Guillotine Romance revels in the cacophony of the wounded heart and decides to make it everyone’s problem. This is horror with a wink, glamour with a body count, and love that refuses to die (but may K*ll). This is romance in its most twisted, messy, feral, and (fake) blood-spattered form. Killer heels, heartbreaks, and lights catching the light of the blade just right…. It’s enough dark trauma to make Cupid miss a shot. And it’s all here at DIVA or Die!
This night is for goths, scream queens, leather lovers, and anyone who knows Friday the 13th is better with romance and Valentine’s Day is better with bite. Sharp wits and dull knives make this an event to share with your friends, your foes, your current love, and your hated ex. Confused and unresolved feelings are always welcome.
Romance is not dead, but love may be fatal. Come lose your head at Guillotine Romance!
You will remember the show as long as you both shall live…. (Maniacal laughter ensues).
Featuring:
Rosie Fingers!
Rosa Robada1
Star Sapphire!
Scarlet Conte!
Ripley D’Myleaux!
Jamine Pritchard!
Calliope Quaint!
The Quainted Ladies
Jenny Jewels!
Tanqueray von Grafenburg!
Get your tickets now! DIVA or Die: It’s to die for!
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DIVA or Die Burlesque is a produced by Calliope Quaint and with Assistant Producer Rosie Fingers!
Calliope Quaint is an accomplished musical theatre performer and lifelong dancer. Calliope first brought her sparkling repertoire of captivating caricatures to the world of burlesque in 2008. Her solo acts have won awards at the Arizona Burlesque Festival (Judge's Choice in 2019) and the Great Burlesque Exposition (Most Humorous in 2014, and Most Classic in 2016). Other notable appearances include The Texas Burlesque Festival, London Burlesque Festival, Ohio Burlesque Festival, Toronto Burlesque Festival, Panama Burlesque Festival, and Hollywood Burlesque Festival. She changed her name in June 2024, previously performing under the name Red Velvet. She has been the head diva of DIVA or Die since its inception in 2012. In addition, she has co-created five theatrical burlesque/cabaret productions. She is also the director of the San-Francisco based cancan and burlesque troupe, The Quainted Ladies (previously known as The Velvettes). She’s no saint, she’s Calliope Quaint.
Rosie Fingers is a union-made maker of misery and mayhem for the agents of capital. Co-founder of Bay Area wrestling show Full Queer: Wrestling for Rights. Rosie is new to the burlesque stage, but not new to MCing. Be nice to her. Or don't. She's into that. Or at least she knows when to hit back and when to ask for more.
Recommended if you like: Dita von Tease, Hubba Hubba Revue
Where is it happening?
988 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, CA, United States, California 94133
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