The clown shoes Peter Bufano wore during his tenure as a clown with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) Bufano’s shoes have thousands of performances on them.

The new Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, coming to the XL Center in Hartford May 3-5, is about massive artful distraction. They try to explain it, but they don’t need to.

On July 6, 1944, a blaze broke out at a Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey show in Hartford, Connecticut. At least 167 ...

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 ...

For 146 years, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus has traveled around the country by train, wowing audiences with spectacular entertainment and exotic animals.

Boss clown Sandor Eke helps his 2-year-old son. Michael Eke step off the Ringling Bros. circus red unit's traveling train parked in a rail yard as they head to the arena for a show, Thursday, May ...

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 ...

After the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus shut down, for six years in, 2018, performers — both human and animal — were let go, leading to much heartache.

It's easier to get into Harvard Medical School than the Ringling Bros. Circus -- but that didn't stop these aspiring clowns from pulling out all the stops at Friday's auditions ...

He joined the Ringling Bros. Circus in 1917, when he was 17 years old. By 1934, he was the chief clown, a position he held for 25 years. Paul’s brother, Walter Jung, was also a circus clown.