The Rev’s “Barnum" is a dependably entertaining romp through the life of the man who understood there is a sucker born every ...

Twentieth Century Fox is shelling out $100 million to turn “The Greatest Showman” — the movie/musical starring Hugh Jackman as P.T. Barnum — into a three-ring media circus. Jackman and co ...

But Barnum had the last word. He planted a story with The Sun’s competitor, The New York Herald on Feb. 27, 1836, which claimed that. Heth was “not dead,” but alive and well in Connecticut.

Step right up! Step right up! And prepare to immerse yourself in the wonderful and wacky world of American showman P.T.

P.T. Barnum's life, the things he did and the things that were done to him up to the time of the inspiration for the circus that was to become Barnum & Bailey, proves engrossing if not sensational ...

The man who allegedly said, “There’s a sucker born every minute” is about to give us another earful. Phineas Taylor Barnum — the circus industry’s most notoriously irascible showman ...

Let’s get this fact out of the way: Hollywood heartthrob Hugh Jackman looks about as much like P.T. Barnum as your cat. But that shouldn’t keep you from seeing Jackman portraying Barnum in the ...

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. – P.T. Barnum wasn't fooling. The Egyptian mummy in his museum is for real. A pair of Quinnipiac University imaging experts, who specialize in mummies, confirmed Thursday that ...

The musical features Domenic Biseti as P.T. Barnum, Lisa Prieto as Charity Barnum, Gloria Rice as Jenny Lind, James Grenelle as Ringmaster/James Bailey, and ensemble cast Katrina Young as Joice ...

P.T. Barnum was a pretty despicable character, Charles Baxter finds in Lapham's Quarterly, but his influence was lasting. Reviewing Barnum's autobiography, Baxter finds the seeds of the phenomenon ...

Mrs. Phineas T. Barnum, widow of the great American showman, was married in this city yesterday afternoon to Demetrius Callias Bey, who is said to be a Greek, although bearing a Turkish title.