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POLK CITY, Fla. -- The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus will phase out the show's iconic elephants from its performances by 2018, telling The Associated Press exclusively that growing public ...

The show opens in Wichita on Jan. 12.

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.

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 ...

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 ...