When the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus closed down in May 2017, a victim of changing tastes and years of protests by animal-rights groups, The Greatest Show on Earth seemed like the ...

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey dates back to 1919 as a combined circus, but go all the way back to the 19th century as separate spectacles that combined human feats of strength and agility ...

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is back in Providence with six performances this weekend. Wed, 16 Apr 2025 18:37:13 GMT (1744828633543) Story Infinite Scroll ...

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus recently kicked off a new nationwide tour following a six-year hiatus. But for the first time in the show’s century-and-a-half history, there will be no ...

To give you a sense of the power of the revamped Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus, I defer to the young girl seated next to me Friday night. OK, it doesn’t work as well in print because ...

Jan Damm is a circus performer who plays the character Nick Nack for Ringling Brothers. In addition to his comedic presence, he also does a balancing act and performs with a robotic dog named Bailey.

Big cat trainer and presenter Alexander Lacey performs in one of the final shows of the Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus on May 21, 2017, in Uniondale, New York.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus has been reimagined and reborn without animals as a high-octane family event with high-wire tricks, soaring trapeze artists and ...

Gawk at local circus landmarks with tour guide Bob Collins, a former marketing executive for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, who tells stories about the colorful cast of circus ...

Acrobats, dancers and unicyclists from Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey will perform six shows in Baltimore this November in the traveling circus’s first tour returning from a six-year hiatus.