Acrobat Maria Smetanova, 23, is in critical condition after plummeting 30 feet to the ground during a trapeze act gone horribly awry, as seen in a sickening video going viral online.

The Ringling Bros. circus is closing down after more than 100 years in operation, according to a press release from Feld Entertainment, which has owned the circus for the last 50 years.

The circus is back without some of its best-known acts. And that’s a good thing A Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus trainer performs with a white tiger in Providence, R.I., before the ...

Circus Performer Hospitalized After Horrifying Fall from Tightrope onto Metal Floor: ‘Her Leg Gave Way’ The woman suffered "serious injuries" in the incident on Monday, Aug. 19, according to ...

The internet can’t stop talking about The Amazing Digital Circus, a 3D-animated web series that went viral on YouTube as soon as the first episode dropped on Oct. 13.. The dark comedy was ...

Little wonder, then, that the circus had drawn the attention of the fabled showman P.T. Barnum, who had in the 1840’s amazed audiences around the world with his exhibitions of the diminutive Tom ...