REVIEW: The Big Sing 2025- Musical Improv Festival Day 3
Reviews from the Musical theatre improv show of Barcelona The Big Sing. day 3.
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REVIEW: The Big Sing 2025- Musical Improv Festival Day 2
The extended review of all three shows was getting too unwieldy, so I am breaking this mega review of the Big Sing 2025 into 3 parts, sorted by day. Reviews of Day One Are Here. You are reading Reviews of Day Two. Reviews of Day Three Are Here. This was the schedule: THE BIG SING- DAY TWO ACT ONE: […]
Read moreREVIEW: The Big Sing 2025- Musical Improv Festival Day 1
I’ve been attending the Big Sing Festival here in Barcelona, put on by the Barcelona Improv Group. It’s a festival that features musical theatre improvisors from across Europe, groups and soloists, who create original musical theatre based on suggestions from the audience and other prompts. You can read more about the festival at my Barcelona based blog The Barcelonalist. The […]
Read moreInnovative Circus at the Grec Festival 2025
The Grec Festival 2025 of Barcelona features some amazing innovative circus performances. Find out more and how to see some exciting eyepopping circus shows.
Read moreCircorts Festival 2025: Contemporary Circus in Barcelona
The district in Barcelona called Les Corts will once again be home to the Circorts Festival, a free annual celebration of contemporary circus arts. Now in its 26th edition, the festival is dedicated to showcasing emerging talent in acrobatics, clowning, physical theatre, music, and aerial arts. With performances across multiple outdoor stages, workshops for all ages, and accessible programming, Circorts […]
Read moreZagreb Clown Festival 2025
The Zagreb Clown Festival is happening this week May 8-11, and it looks like I will be in attendance! (Not performing, just watching, networking, and drinking with the clowns) The festival is now in its 6th year, and had over 77 shows apply to perform on the stage. This year the theme is clowning across cultures, and they strove to […]
Read moreCircorts Festival in Barcelona June 14-16
I have lived in Barcelona now for 3 years, and it never ceases to amaze me how festivals get by my radar. I have my antennas tuned for circus and theatre festivals, but somehow I just discovered this circus festival happening this weekend. It is about 15 blocks from my house, and in it’s 25th year, which means that for […]
Read moreTeater De Papel /Paper Theater by Rauxa Cia
I saw a really great show last night at the International Puppet Theater Festival at La Puntual (see the review I did last week of Hugo and Ines). This is the last week of the festival, although Puntual looks to have a pretty full schedule for the next few months. The show Teater de Papel /Paper Theater by Rauxa Cia […]
Read moreHugo and Ines at La Puntual in Barcelona
I don’t know how I missed this , but there’s a theater in Barcelona dedicated to puppetry! And they are holding their 17nth International puppet festival, which has been going on for the last two weeks. And miraculously, I found out about in time to see two of my favorite performers (Hugo and Ines) performing in it. The theater is […]
Read moreThe Never Ending Jango- documentary- world preview
I’ve been attending the Festival of Fools here in Barcelona, which has been among other things a big send off to the Never Ending Jango Edwards, one of the principals of the festival for the last 50 years. (For the history of the festival, check out this recent post about the latest book about it.) Jango recently announced that he […]
Read moreBOOK: Amsterdam’s Compleat Fools.
The Festival of Fools Barcelona 2022 is in fool swing right now. I’ve seen a few of the shows this year so far, and have been posting excerpts of some of the videos I’ve taken over on my Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/kafclown/ If you want to catch any of the festival, you should check out their website https://festivaloffoolsbcn.com/. There are plenty of […]
Read moreFestival of Fools Barcelona October 28-November 6
THE FESTIVAL OF FOOLS I attended the opening night of the Festival of Fools gala put on by Jango Edwards and the Nouveau Clown Institute in Barcelona. I’ve featured Jango on these pages before- he’s kind of a legendary madman/bad boy of the clown world- moved to Spain in the 70’s and lived there for 40 years without papers before […]
Read moreEdinburgh Clown Festival- Kickstarter!
The people at CloWnStePPinG have been producing a Clown Cabaret Scratch night in Edinburgh since 2014. It’s been pretty successful, and they are now looking to step it up a notch, and are looking to produce the first ever Edinburgh Clown Festival from May 3- May 5, 2018. Officially known as the Edinburgh Contemporary Clown Theatre Festival (ECCTF?), the shows will […]
Read moreAPPLY: Chicago Physical Festival-Deadline Dec 11, 2017
PHYSICAL FESTIVAL CHICAGO is calling for proposals of physical theater plays for its 5th edition of the festival that will run in June 2018. An annual contemporary, visual, and physical theater festival based in Chicago, Physical Festival presents new forms of theater that are being performed around the world and in our backyard. In 2014, Alice da Cunha and Marc Frost […]
Read moreUnicycle Festival in NY Sept 3-6
The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus rides again in a one wheeled extravaganza as the producer of the NYC Unicycle Festival. This 4 day event which celebrates one wheeled riding and the related skills is one of the only events of its kind, and its certainly the largest in NY. Â The main part of the festival takes place on idyllic Governor’s Island, […]
Read moreFestival of Fools- Burlington Vermont
The Festival of Fools is a curated festival of street theater in Burlington Vermont devoted to community engagement through the celebration of circus arts, music and comedy for family audiences. Now in its fifth year, the Festival of Fools offers free events, open to the public and appropriate for all age groups. This year’s festival will be held August 3-5, […]
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