The new Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, coming to the XL Center in Hartford May 3-5, is about massive artful distraction. They try to explain it, but they don’t need to.

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 ...

That's partly why the new Ringling Bros. will feature funny performers − but not traditional clowns in their iconic face paint, which have come to be synonymous with Stephen King's "It" horror ...

"When I was growing up, my mother was a clown for Ringling Bros. When I was 3 or 4 years old, I looked up and saw her in her full clown makeup up on stage singing and I though, Whoa, that's what I ...

On July 6, 1944, a blaze broke out at a Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey show in Hartford, Connecticut. At least 167 ...

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey dates back to 1919 as a combined circus, but go all the way back to the 19th century as separate spectacles that combined human feats of strength and agility ...

The clown shoes Peter Bufano wore during his tenure as a clown with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) Bufano’s shoes have thousands of performances on them.

For 146 years, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus has traveled around the country by train, wowing audiences with spectacular entertainment and exotic animals.

Moline's Don Hepner made an influential, close friend in 1968. And almost 50 years later, he's told the story (with Moline historian Curt Roseman) of that friend, Reggie Montgomery, the ...

When you come to see a Ringling Bros. show with me in it, you can expect to see what you don't expect to see." Bello married Jennifer 20 years ago, and they have three children, Alexander, 19, and ...

The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College has announced plans for its first open clown auditions here in more than a decade. Come to the ...

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus returns to Atlanta after an eight-year hiatus for 13 shows at two venues over two weekends. ... fully made-up clown performers,” Vaught said.