Ari Steeples, a third-generation bear trainer, is set to lead the Murat Shrine Circus as its ringmaster, continuing a family ...

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus will stage eight performances today though Monday at The Mark of the Quad Cities, Moline. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. today and Friday; 11:30 a.m., 3:30 and 7:30 ...

He puts on a bright tailcoat. He smooths out his waistcoat. He checks his bow tie, making sure it’s crisp and straight. He puts on a top hat. It’s at a jaunty angle. He hears the crowd, eager and ...

The circus is in Asheville for its seventh year! Venardos Circus runs from Thursday, Oct. 2, to Sunday, Oct. 19, at Tanger ...

The following is a Folklife Festival story told through the lens of an object: the circus ringmaster’s top hat. Like all good “storied objects,” this one is imbued with the Festival experience of its ...

BARABOO (WKOW) -- A long-time ringmaster at Circus World in Baraboo is preparing to leave the ring after 39 years. Though he doesn't swing from the ceiling or ride a unicycle, everyone who goes to a ...

Ringmaster Donald “N.O.” Long works the crowd at the UniverSoul Circus. Officially, Donald “N.O.” Long is the ringmaster of the UniverSoul Circus, an Atlanta-based traveling spectacle now celebrating ...

John Kennedy Kane is living his dream as ringmaster for the Big Apple Circus. It’s a role he prepared for as a child, when he would stage circus acts in the basement of his South Buffalo home. In fact ...

Singer Lauren Irving plays a central part in the resurrection of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. She’s not the ringmaster, but she’s close to it. “I never get tired of hearing that I ...

Pop artists’s 12th record contains some of her outrageous songs, suggesting she feels confident enough at this point in her ...