The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus made a touring return last fall in September 2023 after a shuttered pause in 2017 that seemed to be the final chapter for the traditional three-ring ...

There is a little tap on his dressing room door and David Larible, the world’s most celebrated clown, calls out: “Come on in.” He is alone, looking glum, quietly strumming a guitar, leaning into the ...

Mike Perry just wanted to have fun when he was growing up in Buffalo. He found a unicycle and taught himself to ride it at the age of 12. Later, a friend taught him how to juggle, and he thought that ...

The new Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus won’t send in the clowns. The clowns are out. When Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey came out of retirement this year, seven years after it ...

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey is easily the most enduring circus name in American history. At its peak, it employed more than 1,000 people and incorporated hundreds of animals in its acts. P.T.

GREENSBORO, NC — There are no tigers and elephants; in fact, the only “animal” is an electric dog named Bailey. The clowns are still there, but hardly wear any makeup. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & ...

If circus clown Bryan Fulton had to change the image of his Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey colleagues, he'd inject a little testosterone. "I'd kind of like to be a superhero, all suave out of ...

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As the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus hits the road for the first time in seven years, gone are the tigers, elephants and Pennywise-esque clowns. By Jonathan Abrams A pesar de la falta de ...

Nine-year-old Donald Cook knew he had to react quickly as the fire engulfed the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus big top in Hartford on July 6, 1944, known as one of the most devastating ...

Circus clowns come in all sizes, but they have to know how to perform big and little. Big, as in larger-than-life pratfalls that pull laughs from the last rows in an arena. Little, as in making a ...

If you dig around in junk drawers and old photo albums, you'll probably find an old Baby's First Circus certificate that Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus used to issue to every newborn whose ...