Adapted from Sara Gruen ’s 2006 novel (which was also a major motion picture in 2011), WATER FOR ELEPHANTS ran for 300 performances on Broadway in 2024 after premiering in Atlanta the year before.

Seventy years ago, in a Southampton still basking in the post-war era, the arrival of a travelling circus was a spectacle that rarely raised an eyebrow of disapproval. The rumble of wagons, the roar ...

The show opens in Wichita on Jan. 12.

The golden age of the circus is long past, and gone are the days when bombastic advertisements would draw thousands of clamoring fans eager to see the exotic spectacles they promised. While that may ...