An animal rights group said it planned to protest ahead of a Jordan World Circus stop at MetraPark Expo Center over concerns ...

The golden age of the circus is long past, and gone are the days when bombastic advertisements would draw thousands of clamoring fans eager to see the exotic spectacles they promised. While that may ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wanting to run away with the circus was never a joke for Tyler West. This full-time clown said he's known that's what he wanted to ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A circus violated an animal welfare law by allowing three elephants to briefly get loose in Missouri and watering them too close to a Pennsylvania show’s public area where a child ...

This weekend's last show on earth for "The Greatest Show on Earth" has been in the making for 22 years, since a series of I-Team reports questioned whether elephants at Ringling Brothers and Barnum & ...

If I told you I spent an evening last week watching a surrealist dramedy about performers in a circus run by a needy, codependent and violent ringmaster with bipolar disorder, you'd have two options ...

POLK CITY, Fla. -- The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus will phase out the show's iconic elephants from its performances by 2018, telling The Associated Press exclusively that growing public ...

From aerialist feats to haunting puppetry, "Water for Elephants" is a visual marvel despite its stuffed script and uneven score.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The movement for the Broadway musical “Water for Elephants” needed more than a choreographer. It needed a circus. That’s why the ...

"Water for Elephants" musical tells story of traveling Depression-era circus, which includes Walter the clown.