ST. PAUL, Minn. --The expression of "running away with the circus" is known to many, but for one St. Paul woman, it was a literal lifeline to escape a life of domestic abuse. She's now on a mission to ...

“The circus life is about living a larger-than-life life. And for me, it’s been a relief.” From Belfast, she went on to perform for a couple of years in London. She built international relationships ...

Ringmaster Audrey Alvarado greets the audience during opening ceremonies of the Alzafar Shrine Circus at the Freeman Coliseum during the show's 2011 appearance.Express-News file photo The lights ...

Estefani Evans is a fifth-generation circus performer starring in Cirque du Soleil's Alegría. She began trapeze at 10 years old. Her husband works alongside her, and their kids travel with them. "I ...

What happens when a social media mob swarms a conservative Islamic community? Filmmaker Sarmad Sultan Khoosat explores this in his new film “Circus of Life,” which won the top prize at the Busan ...

ST. LOUIS — On any given weekend at City Museum in downtown St. Louis, the circus comes to town. The non-profit Circus Harmony uses circus education to teach life lessons to young people. “So while ...

While peanuts and crackerjacks aren’t hard to come by, reliving the early circus of the 1900s is not an easy feat. Next month, the PBS documentary The Circus will give a long overdue look at what was ...

Sarmad Sultan Khoosat became the target of right-wing religious fanatics for his film, Pakistan's official entry for the best international feature Academy Award. By Scott Roxborough Europe Bureau ...

Any good circus has clowns, the acrobats and the high-wire acts. But chances are you haven't seen the sister act. Seventy-year-old Catholic nun Sister Dorothy Fabritze has made the circus her mission.

We know what happens when we go to the circus, or we remember what happened when, as children, we used to go to the circus. We are swept out of the monotonous mundane, beyond the relentless routines, ...