These stories could come only from circus ... the Ringling train, yell “thank you” and applaud. “Got a lump in my throat,” Hamilton says, “every time I saw them.” Behind Clown Alley ...

The odds of landing a coveted spot on the Ringling Bros. Circus’ elite traveling ... of “warmups” alongside members of the circus’s “Clown Alley.” Ringling clown Matt stresses the ...

I was quite taken with Mary Ann Lewis’ suggestion that the circus clowns laid off by the closure of Ringling Bros., Barnum and Bailey Circus could take the places of the clowns we already have ...

The grotesque and glittering world of Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus is his “Never-Never Land.” His fellow clowns are the other lost boys. And the only pirates they fear are ...

To extend the metaphor from this space a week ago, my email inbox spilled over with responses about my column headlined ...

The Ringling Bros. traveling circus is performing ... My son was born into the circus, and many people ask me, 'Oh, next generation of clowns, performers?' And I'm like: 'Absolutely not!