The lights go out and UniverSoul Circus plunges into darkness. When they come back on, four clowns are standing around the stage under the big top, and the kids in the audience are screaming with joy.

On an average day, dancers arrive at Tommy The Clown Academy at least three hours before showtime. They paint each other’s faces in the bathroom, the front room and in the dance studio as they chatter ...

Clowning around is taken very seriously by Shrine clowns. More than 50 people with giant red noses and shoes 16 inches long joked around at the annual International Shrine Clown Association conference ...

On a warm Saturday evening in Carson, two dozen young Black performers packed a pair of Chevy Suburbans and a Dodge Charger on their way to a celebration. The vehicles were emblazoned with the crew’s ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ALEPPO, Syria — Happy children dance with a ...