Artist Joan Stevens helps preserve Circus World Museum's historic wagon collection. As a teenager, Joan Stevens ran away with the carnival and fell in love with circus art. Today, she is helping ...

Art Concello's career from trapeze artist to manager, owner intersected with another North Dakotan known for his love of the circus Mayville native Maureen Brunsdale has written a biography of Art and ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican artistic director Jorge Díaz used to have a unique selection of bedtime stories for his son. Setting aside well-known books like “Pinocchio,” they read tales closer to home.

Acrobats from a Mexican theater company perform “Mortal Leap into Xib’alb’a,” which reinterprets a myth from a sacred Mayan book about creation and the journey to the underworld. The Associated Press ...

In this one-woman clown show at New York’s Cherry Lane Theatre, where it’s running through Dec. 21, Natalie Palamides (above) plays both parts in a story about a couple’s fraught relationship. The ...

Roberto Osorio was only 11 when he, his two older brothers and an older sister joined the Carson and Barnes Circus as a family high-wire act in 1983. His father, Herminio Osorio, a former trapeze ...

This isn’t your typical circus with clowns, elephants and magicians. This is a band. But not just any band. They’re an alien band. They’re Martian Circus, and they’re bringing art, music and fashion ...

The Moscow State Circus has long been one of the traditional highlights of the Fringe Festival returning each year with a new, more spectacular, family show. There has always been a certain mystery ...