Contortionists and acrobats with celestial skills train in squalid conditions as the promise of a former sumo wrestler to restore the national circus to its past glory has gone mostly unfulfilled.

Shuttered since 2017, Ringling Brothers will bring back its circus in 2023, but this time there will be no animal acts. By Sarah Maslin Nir LAS VEGAS — In a cavernous audition space, one by one the ...

The self-proclaimed "Greatest Show on Earth" is back. Only without the snarling and trumpeting beasts that made the 152-year-old American circus famous. Which begs a few existential cultural questions ...

20 Mad-Cap Merry-Makers, Grotesque Busy-Bodies & Quaint Animal Comedians, In a Hodge-Podge of Queer Antics Library of Congress When Barnum and Bailey’s “Greatest Show on Earth” rolled into American ...