When Richard Bennett attended his first Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus performance in Sarasota, Fla., in 1949, the 9-year-old boy couldn't have guessed just how much the circus would ...

The 152-year-old circus had closed in 2017 ... purchased in 1907 by five brothers named Ringling who had a circus of their own. The COVID-19 pandemic delayed those plans.

And then six years later, here we are." The Ringling Brothers circus shut down in 2017, but made a comeback in 2023. Skyler signed her contract in an old Ringling train car that her parents had ...

The five Ringling brothers performed their first circus on May 19 ... “Try getting a 3- or 4-year-old today to sit for 12 minutes,” he said. Feld and his daughter, Juliette Feld, who is ...

Only without the snarling and trumpeting beasts that made the 152-year-old American circus famous ... "The question was just, how?" Is the Ringling Brothers circus coming back in 2023?

“There are definitely lots of people out there who, when you hear Ringling Brothers ... “My older one went to a circus when she was a year and a half old in the city and she loved it.

Jan Damm performs as Nick Nack in the Ringling Bros ... he treasures the time he gets to go home and be "circus dad" to his 5- and 7-year-old children. "When I pick up my daughter, she insists ...

Instead, the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey say the new production is "reimagined and reborn" with 75 performers executing daring feats. The 150-year-old circus is putting a modern twist ...

it's over 150 years-old, so to re-imagine it is ... unicycle specialist with Ringling Brothers. Williams is part of the traveling circus' diverse line-up of 75 performers representing 18 different ...