In December, the circus announces its first female ringmaster, Kristen Michelle Wilson. 2017 — Feld Entertainment announces it will close the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

SAN DIEGO, CA — Circus Vargas is back in Southern California, with Ringmaster Johnathan Lee ... After graduating, he met the director of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey while on the way ...

Etched into that base reads: "Erected by the employees of Ringling Bros. Circus. Charles Smith, June 10, 1897; and Chs. E. Walters, Sept. 15, 1870 — June 10, 1897." It's a monument in Wahpeton ...

and in particular one famous circus, the one immortalised as “The Greatest Show on Earth”: the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, which is hanging its hat for the last time this weekend.

To them, it might have seemed effortless. But these highly trained performers for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus told the children watching on Wednesday such feats of aerial grace ...

The tiger shot in Atlanta was a former star of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus before it went closed A tiger shot and killed after attacking a dog on Wednesday was revealed to be one of ...

The odds of landing a coveted spot on the Ringling Bros. Circus’ elite traveling clown corps might be slightly higher than winning the lottery. But not by a whole lot. More than 4,000 clown ...

I was quite taken with Mary Ann Lewis’ suggestion that the circus clowns laid off by the closure of Ringling Bros ... they are throwing knives at! The ringmaster! All these and others are ...

Since acquiring Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey in 1967 ... 1999 – the first Black ringmaster of a major U.S. circus. Images of original costumes from Ringling productions The Bicentennial ...

The Ringling Bros. traveling circus is performing for the last time Sunday with a stop in Long Island, New York. The circus has been a piece of Americana for 146 years, but high operating costs ...

Numerous galleries showcase pieces from Ringling Bros. Circus co-founder John Ringling's personal collection, including paintings by Velazquez, Rubens and Veronese. And in the museum's courtyard ...