Dubbed “The Greatest Show on Earth,” the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus was a force to be reckoned with when the two acts merged in 1919. Sarasota became the winter quarters for the ...

In 1977, a young Paul Binder had come home from Europe with the dream of launching a new, old-style one-ring circus in America — and he did it. On a stretch of landfill in lower Manhattan, the Big ...

WASHINGTON — The Big Apple Circus, which filed for bankruptcy in 2016 and was bought earlier this year by a group of investors led by a former D.C. surgeon, is bringing its one-ring circus show to ...

At the Big Apple Circus’s Thursday morning performance for hundreds of children in the New York metro area, it was seemingly business as usual. The trapeze artists flew high above the crowd, the ...