The one I was stuffed, crammed, and pummeled into at Ringling Brothers some fifty years ago. “It was a Gremlin hatchback, and after stripping the interior we managed to fit fifteen clowns into it.

To them, it might have seemed effortless. But these highly trained performers for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus told the children watching on Wednesday such feats of aerial grace ...

A Sarasota, Florida, home built for one of the founders of the Ringling Brothers Circus is now up for sale, asking nearly $2.5 million. The Gulf Coast home was built in 1918 for Alfred Ringling ...

Though the Ringling Bros. retired in May, dry your eyes and pop your clown nose on; there are plenty more circuses you can visit wide-eyed or run away to and join. No joke: Circus scholar Janet ...

Bailey merged their circuses to form The Greatest Show on Earth. The circus later merged with the Ringling Bros. to form Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, which closed for five years ...

The grotesque and glittering world of Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus is his “Never-Never Land.” His fellow clowns are the other lost boys. And the only pirates they fear are ...

Numerous galleries showcase pieces from Ringling Bros. Circus co-founder John Ringling's personal collection, including paintings by Velázquez, Rubens and Veronese. And in the museum's courtyard ...

The horror film “Clown in a Cornfield” has a title that certainly delivers on its promise to ticket buyers: Yes, there is scary clown action in a cornfield. But as fans of Adam Cesare‘s hit ...

For centuries, clowns have mostly been men. A new group of talent is changing that. By Michael Snyder AS A YOUNG woman in Mexico City, Gaby Muñoz, a 43-year-old performer known onstage as Chula ...

heaved despondently his two tons of blubber. All through the winter quarters of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus echoed his dismal, puffing wheezes, for the famed sea elephant lay ill ...