Amy Tan took classical piano lessons starting at the age of five. Although she would never fulfill her mother’s ...

More often than not, great circus acts are honed and perfected through collaboration. When mime Olivier Taquin and Big Apple ...

In the weeks before the season premiere, the Big Apple Circus production team works long hours honing and tightening the ...

A successful big top production is part muscle, part magic and part technical precision, and, according to the Big Apple ...

Barry Lubin and Mark Gindick collaborate to cook up a clown gag inspired by Singin' in the Rain.

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Guest artist Guiming Meng performs one of the most astounding acts of the season as he effortlessly balances, juggles and ...

Like a dancer in the air, Cloud Swing trapeze artist Regina Dobrovitskayas combines powerful athleticism with grace and elegance in ...

Jake and Marty LaSalle are one of the top juggling acts in the world, and they’ve spent years developing ...

An internationally renowned circus historian and former Associate Artistic Director of the Big Apple Circus, Dominique Jando serves as curator ...

This is where they stand and pace and stretch. This is where they pray or practice or spit into their ...

Dr. Gail Kern Paster, director of the Shakespeare Folger Library and renowned Shakespeare scholar answers viewer questions about King Lear ...

New York-based Costume Designer Fabio Toblini combines a variety of historic and modern influences to complement the comic musical, H ...

Shakespeare's immortal "To be, or not to be" takes on a whole new meaning (and medium) as classical stage ...

To design The Bonesetter’s Daughter costumes, Han Feng consulted with director Chen Shi-Zheng, and researched fabrics and construction techniques ...

Han Feng grew up during the Cultural Revolution in China, and moved to New York in the 1980’s where ...

Watch a slideshow of photos from the full staged production of Il Posting. Photos by Robert Millard.