From Julia Masli to Red Bastard, performers are stretching the boundaries of clowning far beyond custard pies and red noses ...

The colorful circus performers are right up there with vampires and werewolves on the list of iconic horror villains. But unlike other movie monsters, clowns were originally meant to make kids ...

The colorful circus performers are right up there with vampires and werewolves on the list of iconic horror villains. But unlike other movie monsters, clowns were originally meant to make kids ...

In my own research on the history of the 19th-century circus, I spend a lot of time in archives where I regularly come across vintage photos of clowns. Now, I don't consider myself afraid of clowns.

Don’t send in the clowns: Creepy clown emerged from crass, bawdy circuses of the 19th century Madeline Steiner, University of South Carolina for The Conversation ...

When a circus clown moves to Las Vegas, the first person they call is DeDera, Linker says. He's a clown with connections. "He's really looked up to as a teacher," Linker says.

Tom von Oehsen founded a nonprofit in 2015 that provides a free circus arts training program to about 10,000 children and ...

When the clowns found out the circus was closing, they turned their red noses to each other for support. It had been a hard year already. Their centuries-old art form had been reduced to a ...

Rocco the Clown performed first on what was billed as a celebration for International Clown Week at Circus Circus on Thursday. VIEW E-EDITION. 25¢ for 3 mos. Support local journalism.

Gloomis01/Shutterstock. It’s just what it sounds like: a car for clowns!—or, more specifically, a tiny vehicle packed full of circus performers.