Houston will honor the life and legacy of famed circus clown Emmett Kelly with Emmett Kelly Day on Saturday, April 25, 2026. The week‑long celebration begins April 18 with a Scramble Golf Tournament, ...

The Circus Classic performed shows at the Athens Fairgrounds in Winterville, Georgia, from Friday, March 28, to Sunday, March 30, 2025. The shows featured live performances from aerialists, acrobats, ...

Our first president George Washington attended the first American circus in Philadelphia in 1793. Circus would expand from that auspicious start to become American folklife, intertwined with the ...

At the beginning of the 1988 film “Big Top Pee-wee,” the circus blows into town — literally, thanks to a wind-whipping storm — and lands on none other than Pee-wee Herman’s farm. Pee-wee (Paul Reubens ...