The blend of romantic story, amazing puppetry and daredevil acrobatics makes for a thrilling evening of entertainment.

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.

Both Asian and African elephant species are either endangered or critically endangered, with fewer than half a million of them left in the wild — a staggering and sobering statistic. Thankfully, a ...

The movement for the Broadway musical "Water for Elephants" needed more than a choreographer. It needed a circus. That's why the musical, which stops at Century II for three Broadway in Wichita ...

The Pope held an audience with a troupe of African circus performers in the Vatican on Wednesday. The 88-year-old watched from a chair as acrobats, robot-operated puppet elephants, jugglers and ...

There's only one place in Cape Girardeau to find a boxing kangaroo, a giant jungle monster and motorcycles flying through the "Chamber of Doom." All this and more will be at the Piccadilly Circus at 4 ...

"Water for Elephants" is partly a sawdust love story, partly a survival story. It opens with an old man's reminiscence, as Jacob Jankowski (Hal Holbrook) tells a young circus hand about his own ...

The N&O Summer Desk is a pop-up initiative to help navigate the season. Whether you’re heading to the beach, mountains or backyard, the Summer Desk is here to guide you. Share your story ideas with us ...

Elephants will perform at the Alliant Energy Center for the final time this weekend as a contract between the venue and the Zor Shrine Circus expires. A new contract is in place to bring the circus ...