{"id":358894,"date":"2026-06-13T04:45:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T04:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/358894\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T04:45:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T04:45:32","slug":"do-portugal-circus-brings-high-flying-acts-to-south-mississippi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/358894\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Portugal Circus brings high-flying acts to South Mississippi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LONG BEACH, Miss. (WLOX) \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.doportugalcircus.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.doportugalcircus.com\/\">Do Portugal Circus<\/a> will open Thursday night for a four-day run in Long Beach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The circus is set up across the street from Steve\u2019s Marina. The first show begins at 8 p.m. Thursday, June 11, and performances continue through Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Jodie Leith, the circus ringmaster, said the show features acts on the ground and in the air, including dancers, juggling and acrobatics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cSome absolutely amazing acts. Expect the unexpected,\u201d Leith said. \u201cAll your traditional circus acts, but expect so much more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The circus also includes a human cannonball act.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cNot a lot of people do this. It is very dangerous, and it\u2019s something that will blow you away,\u201d Leith said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"The Do Portugal Circus is a family-run circus currently touring the USA.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6YT662A5BNHDFIAP4OJ2HT2FWQ.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>The Do Portugal Circus is a family-run circus currently touring the USA.(WLOX)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Do Portugal family is a fifth-generation circus family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cDoing this is what they love. It\u2019s what they are born to do. They travel around the world,\u201d Leith said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">After the Long Beach run, the circus will move to Biloxi. Performances will run Thursday, June 18 through Sunday, June 21 across from Harrah\u2019s on Highway 90.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Tickets can be purchased <a href=\"https:\/\/www.doportugalcircus.com\/dates-tickets\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.doportugalcircus.com\/dates-tickets\/\">online.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">See a spelling or grammar error in this story? Report it to our team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlox.com\/page\/error-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">HERE<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WLOX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Miss. (WLOX) \u2014 The Do Portugal Circus will open Thursday night for a four-day run in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[60021,117959,146077,146083,146082,146081,146079,131,133,132,146080,146078,15432],"class_list":["post-358894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-biloxi","tag-circus","tag-do-portugal-circus","tag-harrahs-great-lawn","tag-harrahs-gulf-coast","tag-human-cannonball","tag-jodie-leith","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-ringmaster","tag-steves-marina","tag-tickets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}