while the contemporary circus clown, with his exaggerated face paint and physical wit, debuted on a London stage around 1800. (The one dressed in an ill-fitting suit and oversize shoes emerged as ...

Toys have been a childhood staple for hundreds of years, and everything from balls to pinwheels and dolls to rocking horses ...

The Rev. Jeff Hood has made a career of fighting to save men the state wants to kill — and it doesn't matter if they're ...

Lemebel’s writing was entirely focussed on those living on the farthest margins of society—people escaping the norms and seen ...

With lions on stage with the trainer, the scene evokes a primal encounter between man and beast: a face ... is the circus’ true service to humanity. By sheer luck, I also encounter a female ...

Ewing is Old SNP royalty, the Old SNP being the era in which the party was distracted by the fringe issue of Scottish independence and had yet to embrace its destiny as the party of shutting up women ...

Frecknall’s distinctive aesthetic (the staging is starkly designed by Madeleine Girling), and the enlivening demands it places on audiences’ imaginations, was visible in the recent Broadway revival of ...

The Jaffa Shrine Circus is back in town April 2nd through the 6th. All of your favorite acts are taking to the ring with eight performances! We sent our Morgan Koziar out to ...

Cirque du Soleil and a few other shows emerged as wildly popular theatrical versions of the circus, where highly skilled ...

Clowns are facing their job going extinct as they face 'turbulent times' and are now banding together at a crisis summit this ...