At Circus World in Baraboo, the sights and sounds evoke the golden age of the circus. Its presence is loud and colorful. In the late 1800s, traveling performers rode ornate wagons through towns to ...

“There was no family attraction that reflected the Black experience,” he said. “We did a lot of gospel theater before the circus, and we had a series of plays that humorously dealt with social issues.

The sun is the only spotlight for the circus performers who bound onto a ramshackle raft, docked in Parkersburg, West Virginia just across the river from Belpre, Ohio. A crowd of more than a hundred ...

LENOX — In the mind of Allyn Burrows, artistic director for Shakespeare & Company, the highs and lows of a Shakespearean tragedy are akin to the thrills and chills of a circus routine. Both crafts ...