Kenneth Feld has been negotiating since 1972 to bring acrobats from China to the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus – and one of the biggest stumbling blocks has been over what they would eat.

Daley Civic Center Plaza, Washington and Dearborn Streets, noon. Incredible Acrobats from Shanghai. Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St., 10:30 a.m. Puppet and story fun. (Suggested for ages 3 to 9).

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Peking Acrobats is a troupe of China's most gifted tumblers, contortionists, ...

At first, they seem so pitiful, these babies, all feet and feathers, butter-yellow talons and splotchy brown plumage cloaked in silky white down. So absurdly ugly they are, yet so painfully conceived ...

The world record holders for the tallest Human Chair Stack (six people atop six chairs rising 21 feet in the air) take the stage at Proctors on Thursday. Since their Western debut in 1986, the Peking ...

The Peking Acrobats — a troupe of China's most gifted tumblers, contortionists, jugglers, cyclists, and gymnasts complemented by live musicians playing traditional Chinese instruments — will perform ...