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Friday, 15 November 2024

Sylvia Théron, Hamburg, 1950

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Wednesday, 30 October 2024

The Ghosts of Circus Past - a spooky song for Halloween

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A ghostly seaside circus In a ghostly seaside town A bleak wind blows backstage Ringmaster wears a frown It’s here I met an acrobat Who love...
Sunday, 13 October 2024

Come Alive! The Greatest Showman - Run extended to 30 March 2025

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Tuesday, 13 August 2024

Philip Astley, the Father of the Circus in This England

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The autumn issue of This England features a page by yours truly on how the Father of the Circus , Philip Astley , is being rediscovered in ...
Wednesday, 17 July 2024

The Greatest Showman is coming to a Big Top in London

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  Come Alive! , a new musical circus show inspired by the film, The Greatest Showman , will be coming to a 700-seat big top at the Empress...
Friday, 12 July 2024

Gravity Circus UK tour preview

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Circus thrives on the new : New tricks, new spectacles, new blood. The first visit to the UK of Italian show Gravity Circus brings all tho...

Barnum is back... in Newbury

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The circus is back in town in Newbury , where the Watermill theatre is reviving Cy Coleman and Michael Stewart ’s 1980 musical, Barnum . ...
Sunday, 30 June 2024

New book from Showbiz David

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David H. Lewis , also known as David Lewis Hammarstrom and the blogger Showbiz David , is America's most diligent and penetrating big t...
Wednesday, 12 June 2024

Coming to London this autumn...

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Tuesday, 14 May 2024

I Ran Away With Cirque du Soleil

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How gymnast Lucie Colebeck joined the world’s biggest circus and set a dizzying world record . The modern circu s is a place where sport an...