NATICK — Joe Kohen is ready to clown around when the Shriners Circus makes its return Wednesday at the Aleppo Shriners Auditorium in Wilmington. Natick resident Kohen, the circus' "boss clown," and ...

About 20 years ago, Coconut Grove-born Robert Dunn read an Ebony magazine featuring Danise Payne, a former UniverSoul Circus clown, on the cover. That was enough of an inspiration for Dunn to head to ...

Having been something of a class clown growing up in Dayton, Ohio, terrorizing many an innocent grade school teacher at Cleveland Elementary School with my pranks and wise-acre behavior, I suppose ...

Dave DeDera was only 19 when he was faced with the kind of decision that could make or break his career: clown around or become a cop? DeDera chose clowning. It was the best decision of his life. For ...

Before the circus of contemporary art begins next week, visit a circus at the Met. Those entertainers, the bait for those circuses, were calledsaltimbanques. The term comes from Italian, combining the ...

NEW YORK — One of America’s most revered circus performers, Grandma the clown, has resigned from the world-renowned Big Apple Circus after it was revealed that he pressured a 16-year-old aerialist ...

Calliope Clowns work on a skit just outside of their group’s garage bay behind the Jaffa Shrine Center. Pictured (from left) are Ed “Jellybean” Kertes, Jonathan “Darby” Holmes, Fred “Pauli the Pirate” ...

The show is over for America's most famous clown, who has admitted he pressured a teen performer into posing for lewd photos. Grandma the Clown, the star of the world-renowned Big Apple Circus, is ...

Grandma the Clown, long a mainstay performer at the Big Apple Circus, has stepped down after an acrobat said he pressured her into taking pornographic photos when she was 16, according to a report.