Myrna Packer, at one point in “The Bare Bones Circus,” enters the spartan but spacious big-top ring and conducts a dialogue with an unseen workhand in some sort of invented, Germanic tongue. She is ...

After the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus announced that it will end its 146-year run, shutting down the show this May, we were inspired to dig into our archive to find 20 moments from ...