… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. I found myself at the Royal Canadian International Circus (RCIC) last Thursday, ...

It was 1867 when British singer George Leybourne wrote of “that daring young man on the flying trapeze,” a paean to the great 19th-century French trapeze artist Jules Léotard, who’s been credited as ...

Circus traditions have been embedded in Sarasota history since the Ringling brothers set up their winter quarters in the community nearly a century ago, attracting locals and tourists who wanted close ...

The circus is coming to town, but the shenanigans happening under this big top aren’t the typical clown, juggler and trapeze acts. The traveling Paranormal Cirque II, playing Friday through Monday in ...

Before TikTok challenges and Netflix binging, entertainment rolled into town via a traveling circus. A circus show of yore might feature jesters powdered in clown make-up, lions alongside their daring ...

The Circus Arts Conservatory will be sending acts up in the air and around the performance ring for the 2025 edition of Circus Sarasota. The show runs Wednesdays through Sundays Feb. 15-March 9 under ...

The sun is the only spotlight for the circus performers who bound onto a ramshackle raft, docked in Parkersburg, West Virginia just across the river from Belpre, Ohio. A crowd of more than a hundred ...

Estefani Evans is a fifth-generation circus performer starring in Cirque du Soleil's Alegría. She began trapeze at 10 years old. Her husband works alongside her, and their kids travel with them. "I ...

It was 75 years ago that the circus came to town. This wasn't just any circus. It was THE circus. Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus – America's circus – arrived in the city in 1947 amid ...

For the first time ever, Do Portugal Circus is performing in Roanoke, and staff members promised it will be a show like no ...