OKLAHOMA CITY? There are no ringmasters with tight white pants and smart red jackets at the UniverSoul Circus. Its ringmistress is a gospel singer disguised in frumpy dresses and a ratty wig, and ...

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“There was no family attraction that reflected the Black experience,” he said. “We did a lot of gospel theater before the circus, and we had a series of plays that humorously dealt with social issues.

In 1879, the artist Edgar Degas attended a performance at the Cirque Fernando in Paris where he was dazzled by an acrobat known as Miss La La. Born in Prussia to a black father and white mother, Miss ...

For the entire month of September, Cannonball will take center stage as the largest hub of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival offering independent performances from artists of every discipline at every ...

For three decades, UniverSoul Circus has celebrated Black culture under the big top by combining various styles of Black music, performances and entertainment from across the globe. This year, the ...

After appearing in U.S. blockbusters such as “X-Men” and “Jurassic World,” Omar Sy is back in France as the star of Roschdy Zem’s “Monsieur Chocolat,” a biopic of 19th century Cuban artist Rafael ...

Cardi B headlines Inaugural Trap Circus Festival in Miami (Photo credit: Ray Love for Steed Media Service) CardI B and South Florida native Kodak Black headlined the first annual Trap Circus music ...

Sweltering rays of heat greeted me as I took the first step out of my car toward the radiant red and yellow tent that awaited me. Automatically upon arrival, my entire body was cooled down by Power ...

When Alice Clark Brown told her family she was going to leave college and join the circus in 1972, they were shocked. But after catching “the showbiz bug” as a child in Washington Park, she decided ...

Sedgwick Cole Jr. [right], Lee’s Global Director of Men’s Design, the Lee design team, and Ouigi Theodore [left] of The Brooklyn Circus worked closely in creating the narrative of Black cultural ...