The creepy clown could be considered the mascot of the Halloween season, nearly as pervasive as the jack-o-lantern and far more unnerving. October’s favorite figure has been particularly active this ...

One very popular clown act, which Mark Twain depicted in “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” involved a performer disguised as a drunken circus patron who shocked the audience by entering the ring ...

As a young kid I thought most adults, with their goofy talk, goofy attire, and goofy makeup and hair, were clowns. The "real" ones of circus and rodeo seemed sinister and did not amuse me. I enjoyed ...

Before, films like Cecil B. DeMille’s 1952 Oscar-winning The Greatest Show on Earth could toy with the notion of the clown with a tragic past—Jimmy Stewart played Buttons, a circus clown who never ...

Just ahead of Halloween, Warner Theatre welcomed “The Vampire Circus” on Oct. 29 for a night filled with mystery, excitement and unusual performances. Combining circus acts with a dark vampire story, ...