Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. August 1-7 is International Clown Week, and we're celebrating clowns across the world as they entertain and make people laugh. Our ...

Theatrical trickster extraordinaire, purveyor of bewilderingly lavish stage illusions to unsuspecting and often jaw-dropped ...

Across the culture, we’re seeing a resurgence of clowns, tents and more. By Kate Guadagnino In late 19th- and early 20th-century America, the circus was such a dominant form of entertainment that ...

As he prepares for the European premiere of Clown Show at the Edinburgh International Festival, New York theatre-maker Geoff Sobelle tells Joyce McMillan why clowning may offer the best way of ...