Bread & Puppet’s ‘The End Of The World Never Minding Show’
Our friends Bread and Puppet Theater brought “The End of the World Never Minding Show!” to Somerville’s Center for the Arts at the Armory last night near the end of…Continue Reading →
Welcoming Spring At Bread & Puppet
“It’s more important than ever to remember the ways of our ancestors,” Maria Schumann told the crowd as she launched the “Spring Ritual” on the Circus Field at Bread and…Continue Reading →
‘Homecoming’: Toy Theater Mulling Migration
“Homecoming” was a meditation on migration, immigration and home–from bird sightings to immigrants crossing the globe. The original toy theater show, a form of miniature, table-top puppetry, was creatred and…Continue Reading →
Bread And Puppet Theater In Winter
Visiting our friends at Bread and Puppet Theater in Glover, Vermont, buried under the snow and fringed with the icicles of mid-winter, with temperatures below zero, it can look like…Continue Reading →
Bread and Puppet Theater’s ‘Life and Death Precision Dances with Happiness Obligation Prologue’
With temperatures hovering around zero, we went to see Bread and Puppet Theater perform “Life and Death Precision Dances with Happiness Obligation Prologue” on Feb. 8, 2026, the last performance…Continue Reading →
Janet Echelman’s Dazzling Net Sculptures Lift Aerial Dance At ArtsEmerson
Janet Echelman is probably the most successful living artist affiliated with Greater Boston. She and her team at Studio Echelman, based in Brookline, have advanced fiber art into the arena…Continue Reading →
34th Annual World AIDS Day Vigil And March
“Everyone we lost,” Nigel Griffith said, “..it is because of them we’re still here keeping up this fight.” He was kicking off the 34th Annual World AIDS Day Vigil at…Continue Reading →
Manual Cinema’s ‘4th Witch’ Riffs On ‘Macbeth’ For A Puppet Fable Of War And Betrayal
World War I-style biplanes bomb a restaurant, orphaning the proprietor’s daughter. French newspaper headlines warn of the advance of Macbeth’s army and urge resistance. The girl flees into a tangled…Continue Reading →
Bread & Puppet’s ‘Revolution in Progress Circus’ Is Coming
Our friends Bread & Puppet Theater bring their “Our Domestic Resurrection Revolution in Progress Circus” to Cambridge Common on Saturday, Sept. 13, 2025, at 4 p.m. in partnership with Cambridge…Continue Reading →
Bread and Puppet’s ‘Oh You Beast Descendants’
“This death of Gaza is not chaotic, it is scheduled,” a narrator says during Bread and Puppet Theater’s “Oh You Beast Descendants.” “…Its aim is not to subdue an enemy,…Continue Reading →