The odds of landing a coveted spot on the Ringling Bros. Circus’ elite traveling ... of “warmups” alongside members of the circus’s “Clown Alley.” Ringling clown Matt stresses the ...

These stories could come only from circus ... the Ringling train, yell “thank you” and applaud. “Got a lump in my throat,” Hamilton says, “every time I saw them.” Behind Clown Alley ...

I was quite taken with Mary Ann Lewis’ suggestion that the circus clowns laid off by the closure of Ringling Bros., Barnum and Bailey Circus could take the places of the clowns we already have ...

To extend the metaphor from this space a week ago, my email inbox spilled over with responses about my column headlined ...

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 ...

Sons of poor immigrants in the Midwest, the Ringling Brothers expanded within a decade from a small regional circus to a large traveling circus across the country, and ultimately bought Barnum and ...

The Ringling Bros. traveling circus is performing ... My son was born into the circus, and many people ask me, 'Oh, next generation of clowns, performers?' And I'm like: 'Absolutely not!

From the dazzling costumes and elaborate props to the fascinating history behind the original Ringling Brothers ... a bustling circus, from acrobats soaring through the air to clowns entertaining ...