Friday, December 20, 2013
Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, London: First seen as Plecs (meaning folds) in high summer at the Milton Keynes International Festival last year, Enfila't's show now premieres in L…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:56AMWednesday, December 18, 2013
Royal Festival Hall, London: Now in its third consecutive year here, Slava's Snowshow is becoming a Christmas fixture. And what better way to headline the Southbank's Centre Winter…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:19AMMonday, December 16, 2013
Playhouse, Epsom: John F Spillers returns to Epsom with a new Peter Pan, but opening with a babes and dancers glitzy jazz hands number makes you wonder what's going on. Its heavy focus …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:33AMTuesday, December 3, 2013
Rose Theatre, Kingston-upon-Thames: Looking for something different? Choose the Snow Gorilla, a new 'family Christmas spectacular' that lives up to its billing. There's still …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:41PMThursday, November 28, 2013
Winter Wonderland, London: Festive lights, flaming torches and a drum-led tribal soundtrack create the atmosphere for Cirque Berserk to play out on some Aztec-type island. It's the more…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:19AMMonday, November 18, 2013
London Palladium: If it's possible to be a national treasure when you're a foreigner and an Aussie to boot, Barry Humphries, or at least Dame Edna Everage - his most enduring creat…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMMonday, October 28, 2013
Palladium, London: This return visit to London by the always-thrilling Russian Imperial Ice Stars follows their Swan Lake on Ice in 2012, and marks the Palladium's first ice show in alm…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AMMonday, September 23, 2013
Wonderground, South Bank, London: Kicking off as a free-form club night in Brisbane in 2008, Briefs is now an all-male cult variety show mixing boylesque, circus and performance art. Beefy b…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:58AMMonday, July 22, 2013
Westway Common, Caterham: Launched last year by the Popolinos - musical clowns Popol and Kakehole - and siblings Grace and Peter Arnett, Circus Wonderland may be small scale but, from its sm…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:31AMFriday, July 19, 2013
O2, London: Faces fell when Alegria, Cirque du Soleil's most gorgeous production - from its pre-financial-woe glory days - was reduced to touring arenas as a way of extending its run. I…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:31AMFriday, July 12, 2013
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London: When circus artist Antoine Carabinier Lepine and his sister, Julie, a dancer, created Cirque Alfonse in 2005 to enable their father, Alain - a former decorator …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01AMThursday, June 27, 2013
St Bartholomew the Great, London: Following 2012's tour of UK cathedrals, How Like an Angel's London premiere is in the more intimate 12th century St Bartholomew the Great church. …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:17AMThursday, June 6, 2013
Udderbelly, Southbank Centre, London: It's rather tough on the fledging Pirates of the Carabina troupe that Flown - headlining in the Udderbelly's purple cow - must contend with St…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:46AMWednesday, May 22, 2013
Spiegeltent, Chapelfield Gardens, Norwich: Audiences have come to expect the earth from director Yaron Lifschitz and his Circa ensemble, and in this world premiere of Beyond he gives them th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:53AMTuesday, May 21, 2013
London Wonderground, Southbank Centre: Another year, another Scott Maidment headline show in the London Wonderground Spiegeltent. But if, like me, you found 2012's Cantina repetitive an…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:17AMMonday, May 20, 2013
Theatre Royal, Norwich: Sequence 8 is les 7 doigts', or the 7 Fingers' eighth creation and rather neatly has a cast of eight. This UK premiere bears its familiar imprint; ensemble …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:37AMTuesday, May 7, 2013
Brighton Dome: Following the success of his previous show, iD, Cirque Eloize CEO/artistic director Jeannot Painchaud now teams with Dave St-Pierre - whose dazzling choreography lends everyth…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:38AMFriday, May 3, 2013
Nieuwe Luxor Theater, Rotterdam: Once in a while a show is so magical, so out of this world that it is worth crossing borders to see it. Sebastiano Toma's Little Big World - part of Rot…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:48AMTuesday, April 16, 2013
Taras Pozdnyakov has an uncompromising vision of a progressive circus that values creativity over commerce - an outlook that has resulted in some of the most electrifying and innovative acts…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:59AMThursday, April 11, 2013
Roundhouse, London: If you are going to make your audience mill around for a couple of hours at a promenade circus, there'd better be something to keep them on the edge of their seats, …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:37AMThursday, March 21, 2013
Circus Space, London: Just 10 soloists and one double act have survived on the degree course at the <a href="http://circusspace.tumblr.com/">Circus Space</a> to present…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:14AMMonday, March 11, 2013
MS Stubnitz, Wood Wharf, London: Woolwich-based AirCraft Circus has chosen a novel and atmospheric venue in the MS Stubnitz. Climbing aboard a former East German fishing vessel on a freezing…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:11AMMonday, February 4, 2013
Mayfair Theatre, London: Award-winning close-up magician Steve Truglia says no one will leave his Card Shark Show without going "Wow!" and he's right. His lifelong fascination…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:23AMMonday, January 28, 2013
Purcell Room, London: Like all great clowns, Wolfe Bowart can make you laugh but he can also make you cry. Anyone who saw his enchanting show LaLaLuna in Joseph Seelig and Helen Lannaghan�…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:37AMThursday, January 24, 2013
Barbican Theatre, London: Impressively, when they find a company they like, London International Mime Festival directors Joseph Seelig and Helen Lannaghan stick with it and bring it back tim…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39AMChapiteau Espace, Fontvieille, Monaco: Slightly shorter in length than the <a href="http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/38122/37th-monte-carlo-international-circus">…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:12AMWednesday, January 23, 2013
Chapiteau Espace, Fontvieille, Monaco: Monte Carlo's 37th International Circus Festival gets off to a showbiz start with ten dancers from the Belarus State Circus in Minsk. They sport w…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:40AMMonday, January 14, 2013
Purcell Room, London: Part of Joseph Seelig and Helen Lannaghan's London International Mime Festival, Popcorn Machine (A Domestic Apocalypse) lives up to its name. The scene is a messy …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:34AMBrixton Ice Rink, London: Top gymnasts have a well-trodden path to extend their careers by joining the circus, but beyond competing, where do world-class ice skaters end up other than in �…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:10AMWednesday, January 9, 2013
Royal Albert Hall, London: When it comes to Cirque du Soleil, the words 'clowns' and 'zany' fill you with dread, but those of us fearing Kooza could be snooza are awoken …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:43AMThursday, January 3, 2013
Roundhouse, London: Having reopened the Roundhouse in 2006 following its renovation, Fuerzabruta - from the same Argentinean creators of De La Guarda - is back by popular demand. It means br…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:22AM 
