The new Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus won’t send in the clowns. The clowns are out. When Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey came out of retirement this year, seven years after it ...

Though it’s been decades since Salguero, now 58, shared the floor with his fellow clowns as part of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, the veteran performer is still proud to say he was ...

argues that the revamped Ringling Bros. show will not lack for jaw-dropping spectacle. "So there are now no animals and clowns," says Scatola, the latter a reference to the circus' more modern ...

The coveted prize: enrollment in Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey's Clown College. With it, the potential to wind up in the circus' Clown Alley and tour with the show. And so about 20 sellers of ...

After a 6-year hiatus, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus is returning in a revived show that no longer features animal acts. (Photo Illustration: Yahoo News; Photos: Getty Images) ...

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 ...

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey is easily the most enduring circus name in American history ... roaring lions and clowns. In the latter part of the 20th century, animal rights groups began ...

It’s not just animals and their trainers who have been cut from Ringling Bros. Old-school slapstick clowns are out, too. “I had to leave [the US] in May, 2017, one day after the circus ended ...

That’s a huge departure for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus, which has been touring since 1871. A classic circus has been reimagined for modern times. No clowns.

Ringling Bros. featured all the standard circus fare, from clowns to trapeze artists performing unbelievable stunts. But, Ringling Bros. biggest ticket-sellers were the live animals. And Ringling ...

He couldn’t have guessed that it would lead him to be accepted at age 19 into the Ringling Bros. and Barnum ... with the international touring circus. “Clowns, circus and vaudeville were ...

The Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus runs May 3-5 at the XL Center, 1 Civic Center Plaza, Hartford. Performances are Friday at 7 p.m., Saturday at 11 a.m., 3 and 7 p.m. and Sunday at noon and ...