The Tony-Award-winning musical "Barnum" is currently on stage at the Merry-Go-Round Playhouse in Auburn, New York, and features actor Jim Stanek in the role of the legendary showman Phineas T. Barnum.

He sold the remainder to his daughter, Helen, for $1. The city of Denver annexed Barnum in 1896. The circus’ return to the Mile High City is welcome news for Jeff Smith, the self-appointed ringmaster ...

The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus show dates back to the mid-1800s when Phineas Taylor Barnum joined forces with the five Ringling brothers to create the modern circus.

The cracker's namesake, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, spent decades traveling the country with its troupes of animals and performers - although neither namesake Phineas Barnum or the ...

The cracker’s namesake, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, spent decades traveling the country with its troupes of animals and performers — although neither namesake Phineas Barnum or ...

On November 12, 1836, Phineas Taylor “P. T.” Barnum arrived in Rocky Mount after leaving Aaron Turner’s Traveling Circus, for which he managed the sideshow acts and took tickets.

After a profitable summer, Castello suggested that Coup approach Phineas T. Barnum, promoter extraordinaire, about joining them in a traveling circus alliance. Barnum had been idle for four years.

The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus is on its final tour, and is making its last visit to New York City. It opened Thursday at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, and will be there until ...

P.T. Barnum with Tom Thumb in 1850. Photo: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group/Getty Images The three-ring circus aspect of modern life had to start somewhere.

"Barnum," a Tony Award-winning musical that debuted on Broadway in 1980, was inspired by the life of Phineas Taylor Barnum, co-founder of the Barnum and Bailey traveling circus. Although the plot ...