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000221 - ATLANTA, GA -- One of the elephants displays the slogan, 'The Greatest Show on Earth', AKA the Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey Circus, as it walked the downtown streets of Atlanta in a Circus Parade Monday, February 21, 2000 as it wound a route near Centennial Olympic Park in downtown Atlanta. The Circus will be in town at Philips Arena through Feb. 27. (KIMBERLY SMITH/AJC staff)

Credit: KIMBERLY SMITH

Credit: KIMBERLY SMITH

000221 - ATLANTA, GA -- One of the elephants displays the slogan, 'The Greatest Show on Earth', AKA the Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey Circus, as it walked the downtown streets of Atlanta in a Circus Parade Monday, February 21, 2000 as it wound a route near Centennial Olympic Park in downtown Atlanta. The Circus will be in town at Philips Arena through Feb. 27. (KIMBERLY SMITH/AJC staff)
By Jewel Wicker
Updated Feb 12, 2017

Circus fans in Atlanta are preparing to say farewell to"The Greatest Show on Earth” this month after Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus announced that they’d be closing permanently in May.

The circus is just one of several noteworthy events that will take place in metro Atlanta this week.

Check out our list of suggestions below:

Alvin Ailey

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will perform the critically acclaimed “Revelations,” a work that incorporates blues, spirituals and gospel, at the Fox Theater this week.

8 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday; 2 p.m. Saturday; 3 p.m. Sunday. Feb. 15-19. $21.50-$86.50. Fox Theatre, 660 Peachtree St., Atlanta. foxtheatre.org. 

Lauryn Hill

ExploreThe last time Lauryn Hill performed in Atlanta, she was more than two hours late and Chastain Park Amphitheatre cut her sound off less than 30 minutes into her set because of their noise curfew. 

This time, Hill is performing indoors at The Tabernacle. Maybe she'll even be on time, although we wouldn't count on it. The singer was recently three hours late to a show in Pittsburgh. By the time she arrives onstage it might not be Valentine's Day anymore.

8 p.m. Feb. 14. $59.50-$105.50. Tabernacle, 152 Luckie St., Atlanta. Tabernacleatl.com.

Andrea Bocelli 

If you’re looking to attend a classical concert with your sweetheart this Valentine’s Day, famed tenor Andrea Bocelli is performing a special concert at the Infinite Energy Center in Duluth.

Bocelli will perform a selection of “arias, crossover hits, special love songs and new music off his latest album, “Cinema.”

8 p.m. Feb. 14. $79-$369. Infinite Energy Center, 6400 Sugarloaf Parkway, Duluth. Infiniteenergycenter.com.

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus

”The Greatest Show on Earth” will stop at Philips Arena this week before closing permanently in May.

ExploreRingling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey’s Presents Circus Xtreme will feature the circus’s first-ever female ringmaster in the circus’s 146-year history.

Times vary. Feb. 15-20. $15-$65. Philips Arena, 1 Philips Drive, Atlanta. www.ticketmaster.com.

Indoor paintball

If you’re looking to do something athletic with your friends and/or family this week, indoor paintballing is a fun way to stay active.

Wildfire Paintball  has a “walk-in special” that includes admission, paintball gun, mask, tank, loader and 100 paintballs for $29.99 per person.

1-7 p.m. Sundays; 4-7 p.m. Tuesdays-Thursdays; 4-10 p.m. Fridays; noon-8 p.m. Saturdays. $29.99 (walk-in special). Wildfire Paintball, 3725-C Stone Mountain Highway, Snellville. Wildfirepaintball.com.

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