“Puppets make me fearless and filled with joy," Sylvie Kessler says.

Last week, Egypt launched its first Shadow Puppets Festival at the premises of El-Sehemy House, under the auspices of the Egyptian Ministry of Culture. The festival is the brainchild of Nabil Bahgat, ...

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Emily McHugh was on the phone with a friend when the idea came to her. McHugh’s history major friend in New Orleans was talking about a particular opera house in the city that had burned down more ...

Consider, if you will, puppetry as the ultimate handmade art form. Not only are puppets often created by hand, they require human activation. “I think the reason people are so drawn to puppetry, ...

Puppet Showplace Theater’s Creative Residency for Black Puppeteers will present works by its sixth cohort at Boston University’s Joan & Edgar Booth Theatre this Saturday. In February 2020, Tanya Nixon ...

PUTNEY — Sandglass Theater launches its New Visions Summer Series with "a visually stunning performance" by puppeteer Tom Tuke. "The City That Slept" will be performed Friday and Saturday, June 5 and ...

If one were to pick a creature synonymous with showiness, they might choose a peacock or flamingo, or perhaps a chameleon or zebra — not the humble brook trout. Yet that was the animal hundreds of ...

“Who loves puppets?” John C. Reilly calls out. The actor’s query is answered with a chorus of enthusiastic woos. “Me too!” he cries. We’re at the Garibaldina Society in Los Angeles—the oldest active ...

Bread and Puppet Theater founder Peter Schumann, 91, paints at the troupe’s Glover farm. Photo courtesy Robbie Leppzer Shaftsbury filmmaker Robbie Leppzer was aiming to finish a documentary on Vermont ...

After years of struggling to keep the doors open, the Bob Baker Marionette Theater joined a lineup that included Justin Bieber and Katseye. After years of struggling to keep the doors open, the Bob ...