When the clowns found out the circus was closing, they turned their red noses to each other for support. It had been a hard year already. Their centuries-old art form had been reduced to a ...

As the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus hits the road for the first time in seven years, gone are the tigers, elephants and Pennywise-esque clowns. By Jonathan Abrams Jonathan Abrams saw ...

The grotesque and glittering world of Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus is his “Never-Never Land.” His fellow clowns are the other lost boys. And the only pirates they fear are ...

A real clown is taking over as leader of Circus World. A “boss clown,” as a matter of fact. Scott O’Donnell, who worked as “boss clown” for the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey ...