circus

A traveling circus from Florida plans to perform 10 shows at the Cumberland Fairgrounds from June 30th through July 3rd

In the book, the circus animals got to explore Maine. In reality, nearly all of the animals drowned.

According to Bored Panda, because of concerns about animal cruelty, a German circus has began using hologram animals (instead of live ones). Since its inception in 1976, the Circus Roncalli has featured animal acts.  Last year, however, they decided it was time to make a change...

Augusta Civic Center is without the use of their credit card machines for the weekend.

After 146 years the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus is folding-up their tents. The final performance will be in May of 2017.

Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus will stop using elephant acts ‘under the big top’ in 2018. The 13 elephants that are performing now will be sent to the Center for Elephant Conservation in Florida.

Nine people were seriously injured today (May 4) at a circus performance in Providence, RI.  The accident was during the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus’ Legends show. The tragedy was due to a platform collapsing during an aerial hair-hanging stunt.

Here is a unique educational opportunity. There is a plan to open a circus-performance college in Portland. The Circus Conservatory of America would offer a Bachelor degree in circus arts. No, it’s not 'clown college', it’s a lot more.

Going to the Shrine Circus and watching the tigers perform can be an exciting event to watch, but finding a Shine Circus tiger in the bathroom at the stadium would be a little unnerving, to say the least. That’s exactly what happened to Jenna Krehbiel and her daughter this past Saturday at the Bicentennial Center in Selina, Kansas. The tiger somehow wondered away after it performed in the show and

This has to be the strangest case of a drive-by shooting in the history of drive- by shootings. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus were at a show in Tupelo, Mississippi, when a circus elephant was hit by a drive- by shooter. The Asian elephant named Carol was in an outside area at the Tupelo Arena when a dive-by shooter opened fire on the area and hit Carol.