Twentieth Century Fox is shelling out $100 million to turn “The Greatest Showman” — the movie/musical starring Hugh Jackman as P.T. Barnum — into a three-ring media circus. Jackman and co ...

Nation's library celebrates history of circus arts with new archival acquisitions from Feld Entertainment's Ringling Bros.

The museum was an early multimedia New York entertainment center, filled with oddities that P.T. Barnum correctly figured the masses couldn't pass up. Played by Hugh Jackman with a twinkle in his ...

In the latter half of the nineteenth century, P.T. Barnum was arguably the most famous person on the planet. His tours of Europe with attractions in tow, his traveling circus shows, his ...

T. Barnum whose famous line was “there’s a sucker born every minute.” Barnum, a marketing genius in the early 1800s, recruited the tallest and shortest humans and used fakery to generate ...

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When P.T. Barnum held court before thousands of Berkshirites who gathered on May 19, 1877, to see "The Greatest Show on Earth," The Berkshire Eagle described the moment with "Thunders of applause ...

Hugh Jackman’s iconic musical returns to streaming this June! Find out when and where to catch the high-energy spectacle that ...

Look for this newsletter in your inbox Monday through Friday. Today, SEC columnist Blake Toppmeyer takes over: P.T. Barnum ...