Each May, “XPT: Xperimental Puppetry Theater” — the Center for Puppetry Arts’ annual showcase for adults in its downstairs black box space — brings audiences a new series of short, strange and ...

Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About a Terrible Monster is Manual Cinema's offering in the 6th Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival. Credit: Rebecca J. Michelson The Chicago International Puppet ...

The best show I saw at the first Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival in 2015 was “The Table” by England's Blind ...

EVIDENCE of just how rapidly puppet theatre has evolved into an alternative art form, utilising various objects, human actors and even the audience as puppets, was on display at the V4 Countries’ ...

HERE Arts Center will welcome ANYWHERE, a string-marionette show co-presented by Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival and Théâtre de l'Entrouvert in collaboration with HERE's Dream Music ...

Twenty years ago when the Ishara International Puppet Theatre Festival was first held in Delhi, Dadi Pudumjee was sceptical if anyone would come to attend a ticketed puppetry performance. In the ...

Creating a DIY puppet theater at home can be a fun and educational activity for families. With a few simple materials and some creativity, you can set up an engaging puppet show that entertains and ...

Madigan Burke is one of the members of the Chicago Puppet Lab presenting their work at this weekend's showcase. Credit: Courtesy Chicago Puppet Lab The annual Chicago International Puppet Theater ...

To call the productions of the world-renowned Gabriadze Theatre from Tbilisi simply puppet theatre would not do it justice. Its performances are filled with emotion, exquisite set design and curated ...

THERE is an Italian man with an ‘egg head’ trick, Ping and Pong the dancing clowns, a weightlifter, a sword swallower, a unicyclist and a violinist whose trousers fall down. There are dancers, ...

That Paradise Place is an erotic puppet musical exploring the romantic lives and sexual fantasies of artists with disabilities. (all photos by Noah Torralba, courtesy Pussypaws Puppetry) Since ...

A puppeteer plays a mourning mother in Gaza during a performance of Our Domestic Resurrection Revolution In Progress! in Ypsilanti, Mich. (Timothy Chen Allen) Generations of peacenik Americans first ...