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From the circus to the runway

By Anna-Sophie JürgensFor centuries, clowns occupied an ambiguous cultural position. They were comic figures, but also disruptive ones: tricksters who mocked authority and social conventions, ...
Complete Information About Saving Face: Memoir of a Circus Clown in Pittsburgh at New Hazlett Theater (May 6, 2024). Mike Perry uses the art of storytelling to explore the primal origins of theatrical ...
GREENSBORO, NC — There are no tigers and elephants; in fact, the only “animal” is an electric dog named Bailey. The clowns are still there, but hardly wear any makeup. Ringling Bros. and Barnum & ...
Circus clowns come in all sizes, but they have to know how to perform big and little. Big, as in larger-than-life pratfalls that pull laughs from the last rows in an arena. Little, as in making a ...