When teachers noticed that children in Oakland preschool and kindergarten classrooms were not engaging in imaginative play or interacting with each other as much after the pandemic, staff at ...

Trouble Puppet Theater Co. announces UNDARK: A Radioactive PuppetPlay, telling the story of Americas WWI-era Radium Girls, produced with the support of a Workshop Grant from the Jim Henson Foundation.

Puppetry is more than just child’s play at Children’s Fairyland, Oakland’s iconic storybook theme park. Small children have been stimulated by the wonders of live performance at the Storybook Puppet ...

Dracula the Puppet Play, Hystopolis Productions, at Red Hen Productions. Why have the uneven puppeteers at Redmoon become Chicago’s darlings when there’s a company like Hystopolis in town? This ...

This year, the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival claims that the city will become ‘the puppetry capital of the world’. This is not a reference to hedge fund managers and Mayor Lori ...

If you value independent local news, become a sustainer today. Your gift could help unlock a $1M challenge. On Saturday, March 8rd I went down to Silverlake's Manual Archives (a "Microtheater") and ...

On the third night of their four-night residency on late night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Metallica not only played their legendary song "Master of Puppets" in full, they also played with puppets ...

“Smoking’s cool,” Puppet Nic Nicotine told visitors to Nicotine Land as he tried to entice them into taking up the habit. “My friends, Cigarette, Smoke and Tar will treat you just like a movie star,” ...

Cthulhu: A Puppet Play is based on the cosmology created by master of horror H.P. Lovecraft, author of seminal classics The Call of Cthulhu, The Dunwich Horror and The Dreams in the Witch House.

WHEN: 7 p.m. Friday, May 23 (in English); 2 p.m. Saturday, May 24 (in Spanish, with English description); for workshop dates, visit tcataos.org WHERE: Taos Center for the Arts, 145 Paseo Del Pueblo ...