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Performances

A circus performance of 'Hamlet' to open at FringeArts this month

New York Circus Project Hamlet FringeArts

Weekend

Roots Picnic, Shuckfest and Pride: Your weekend guide to things to do

Weekend guide Roots

Festivals

Circus performers to soar through the air at FringeArts theater

Circus festival

Arts & Culture

Handmade art and aerial show converge at this month's West Craft Fest

West Craft Fest The Woodlands

Festivals

Tattoo festival will bring ink masters, sideshow acts to Pennsylvania Convention Center

Tattoo Arts Festival

Entertainment

Ringling Bros. circus plans rebirth with 'Greatest Show on Earth' tour

ringling bros circus

Entertainment

Cirque du Soleil's new show to make North American debut in Philly

Cirque du Soleil Philly

Entertainment

Circus students will interpret love through acrobatics in special Valentine's Day performance

Circus Arts Valentine's Day

Festivals

Watch a high-wire walking performance during FringeArts' festival this month

Circus Campus Fringe Festival

Family-Friendly

Trenton Circus Squad to teach children how to do aerials, acrobatics and tight wire acts in Camden

TCS Circus

Family-Friendly

Flying trapeze lessons return to Philadelphia School of Circus Arts this week

Circus Arts

Mutter Museum

PHOTOS: Mütter Museum Superstition Party

Dillon - Mtter Museum

Legislation

It’s now illegal to use elephants in traveling circuses in New Jersey

Circus elephant ban

Events

PHOTOS: New Cirque du Soleil routine sets the [handle]bar even higher

Carroll - Cirque du Soleil Volta rehearsal

Family-Friendly

Morris Arboretum's Garden Railway will get a circus-themed makeover

Circus Week at Morris Arboretum's Garden Railway

Festivals

Step right up to this circus-themed beer fest at the Navy Yard

Beer outdoors

Education

America's first circus school opens its Philly doors next month

Circadium

Performing Arts

15 photos from the Ghostly Circus – beautifully bizarre, it's held within a historic cemetery

Carroll - Ghostly Circus

Events

10 photos of acrobats performing 'DreamCycle' (in various states of undress)

Carroll - Cirque Us

Ringling Bros.

As Greatest Show on Earth closes, contemporary circus could thrive

Circus School

Education

WATCH: Philly will soon be home to a full-time circus-arts school

Circadium

Events

Aerial dance company Tangle to perform circus-theater show

Tangle Movement Arts

Events

Try out the trapeze, tight wire and juggling at circus workshop

Family Circus Day

Events

Blue Cross RiverRink's Winterfest returns

Blue Cross RiverRink Winterfest

Animals

Zebras caught after escaping from West Philly circus

West Philly zebras

Accidents

Trapeze artist injured during fall in West Philly expected to recover

circus accident

Accidents

Circus performer plummets 30 feet at West Philadelphia show

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Events

10 ways to spend your pope 'snow days'

The Arts

Tangle Movement Arts explores city living at Fringe Fest

Girls Guide Neighborhly

Legislation

Pa. state senator introduces bill to ban use of animals in circuses

Events

'Tell It Slant' combines circus with theater

Tell It Slant

Circus

Ringling Bros. circus to stop elephant acts by 2018

Events

Escape to the circus with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey

Clowns

Videos