Elephants will perform for the last time at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus on Sunday, as the show closes its own chapter on a controversial practice that has entertained audiences ...

A Depression-era circus provides the backdrop for Sara Gruen's latest novel, Water for Elephants. Veronique de Turenne, a Los Angeles-based writer, has a review.

When “Star Wars” hit the theaters in 1977, it blew the collective mind of American kids. Spacecraft entering warp speed. Luke crossing the dunes on the landspeeder. The band at creature ...

When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it’s an act of complicit cruelty. This Is Not a Victory for All Elephants ...

CAT MAN (310 pp.)—Edward Hoagland—Houghton Mifflin ($3.75). Reading this novel about circus life is a little like lifting a splendid rug and finding that unspeakable things have been swept ...

In Broadway’s ‘Water for Elephants,’ circus parts are good, songs are meh. The new musical based on the bestselling novel incorporates acrobatics, along with puppets to portray animals ...

Come one, come all to the new big-top Broadway musical WATER FOR ELEPHANTS opening at Broadway's Imperial Theatre tonight! See what the critics had to say about their trip to the circus! Read the ...

Armando Loyal has been loyal to Circus Worlds' elephants for years. They're off to Hugo, Oklahoma, for the winter.

NEW YORK – “Water for Elephants” is hardly the greatest show on Earth. But for a few exquisite moments, a horse might convince you otherwise. In an early scene of the Broadway musical, which ...

Elephants will perform for the last time at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus on Sunday, as the show closes its own chapter on a controversial practice that has entertained audiences ...