Tim Torkildson, who lives in Provo, Utah, came across my words after Googling the keyword “circus ... real clown car. The one I was stuffed, crammed, and pummeled into at Ringling Brothers ...

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 ...

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 ...

Now in its 52 year, the circus ... clowns,” one of whom lived with dwarfism, she said. Aerialist Eve Rice-Whittenburg shows a photo of herself in her early 20s when she joined the Ringling Bros.

After 146 years, America’s most celebrated circus Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus has staged its ... Just before the show, David Vassallo, a clown at the travelling circus, told Reuters: “For ...

Step inside for a tour (budget-friendly at just a few dollars) and prepare for your jaw to hit the floor faster than a circus clown takes a pratfall ... occupies the former winter quarters of the ...

Ringling Theatre, often called “America’s Prettiest Playhouse,” anchors the downtown with its grand French Renaissance style. Built in 1915 by one of the famous Ringling brothers of circus fame ...

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 ...

Indeed, the circus cited the increasing patchwork of local laws when it announced in 2015 that it would finally bow to long-standing public pressure and stop using elephants. Today, Ringling Bros.

The Riverfront Park Pavilion Circus.” This wasn’t a circus in the Ringling Bros. sense – it was a circular collection of attractions centered under the former U.S. Pavilion umbrella.