This year’s theme at Giffords Circus is the Summer of Love, circa 1967, and the acts assembled by the redoubtable Nell Gifford embrace the...

Haggis McLeod has been programming Glastonbury's non-music performance for three decades and is one of the few to work directly with festival co-creator Michael...

Showmen working in British circuses are exploring a bid to be formally recognised as a cultural minority, in order to preserve their way of...

Variety performers have shared their experiences of "shocking" backstage facilities at events and called to be treated the same as theatre performers. They have complained...

A Cardiff-based circus company has launched a new associates programme to "nurture the next generation" of artists. NoFit State Circus' Associate Artists programme will support...

Natalie James will be performing a solo piece as part of hip-hop cabaret evening WorX at this year’s Breakin’ Convention, which is a festival...

Good feedback is crucial to making a good show, but where can you get it? Lyn Gardner meets circus company Upswing, which has started...

“If you ask my mum, she’ll say I’ve been clowning for 46 years,” says Andrew Davis, better known as Andy the Clown. His life...

Meet our panel: We have given our panellists pen-names and used stock images but their biographies reflect their real career details...​​​​​​​​​​ Gary Abblett is a...