Cecil MacKinnon

Circus Flora’s 38th season includes mainstays like the Flying Wallendas and Circus Harmony’s St. Louis Arches. This year’s show also features the Wheel of Death and bareback equestrian acrobatics.

For more than 30 years, Circus Flora, a one-ring circus that makes St. Louis its home, has offered a circus show that’s best described as live theater.…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Jan. 6, 2011 - Circuses are peripatetic beasts, roaming under cover of canvas from one town to the…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, June 6, 2009 - Before the show really gets underway at Circus Flora, before the horses gallop and the…

Posted 11:30 a.m. Mon., June 1 - This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, June 1, 2009 - While the horse trots around the…