Early this year, Cirque St. Armands Beachside opened in the former Holiday Inn on Lido Key, which was built in 1970. The ...

On July 6, 1944, a blaze broke out at a Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey show in Hartford, Connecticut. At least 167 ...

The negro can go into the circus, the theater, the cars … but cannot go into an Evangelical Christian meeting,” an elderly Frederick Douglass exclaimed in 1885 to a crowd in the nation’s capital.” ...

The Market Theatre is set to ignite conversation and awaken the soul with The Black Circus of the Republic of Bantu, a searing performance art installation by NYC Bessie Award winner Albert Ibokwe ...

George and Willie Muse, known collectively as the Muse Brothers, were a pair of ill-fated boys from Jim Crow Era Virginia. They overcame their rare genetic conditions and a world prejudiced ...

The circus, which also has performances in Faith, Hettinger, N.D., Deadwood and Philip in July, is Naja Shriner's largest fundraiser, especially for the Shriners Hospitals for Children.

UniverSoul Circus began in 1994 in Atlanta. It started with mostly black performers, but now represents talent from all over the world. The event runs through Dec. 8.

P.T. Barnum Circus was established in Delavan in 1870, and this program from the 1870s shows another area circus, The Coliseum. The list of performers even includes a young Al Ringling.

Alyssa Bigbee, founder of Rebel Ars Movement Center, leads two Black Circus performances during the Philadelphia Fringe Festival at Christ Church Neighborhood House, Sept. 7, 11, and 19. — Submitted ...

It took five years before UniverSoul Circus became a profitable business, he says, though he knew his plan would be successful when he noticed a 90-year-old Black woman in the audience applauding ...