Calliope Clowns work on a skit just outside of their group’s garage bay behind the Jaffa Shrine Center. Pictured (from left) are Ed “Jellybean” Kertes, Jonathan “Darby” Holmes, Fred “Pauli the Pirate” ...

Fern Street Circus is a nonprofit arts organization that’s been serving families in City Heights for 31 years. They offer an after-school Circus Arts Program and public performances at neighborhood ...

Look in one corner and you’d see kids slapping each other silly. In another, four girls kept knocking out their friends with a board. Elsewhere, they were tripping over their own feet or sending the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NATICK — Joe Kohen is ready to clown around when the Shriners Circus makes its return Wednesday at the Aleppo Shriners Auditorium ...

These shows were rowdy affairs in which audiences felt free to yell, boo and hiss at performers. Typically, clowns would engage in banter with the stoic ringmaster, who was often the target for the ...