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 ...