“Earthlings are now aflame and consequently need inflammatory rants, directed against the arsonist: Western Civilization and its incompetent government,” Bread and Puppet Theater Director Peter Schumann says of the Vermont…Continue Reading →
“Bread and Puppet Theater: Art and Activism in Five Acts” showcases five decades of masks, giant puppets and books relating to performances and protests from the legendary Vermont experimental and…Continue Reading →
Bread and Puppet Theater performed its “Apocalypse Defiance Circus” at its home base in Glover, Vermont, on Aug. 28 as it prepared to take the show on a national tour.…Continue Reading →
“‘Ecstatic Decrepitude’ is presented on two stories,” Bread and Puppet Theater founder Peter Schumann writes of his exhibition at ArtYard in Frenchtown, New Jersey, from April 30 to July 31,…Continue Reading →
After cancelling last year’s visit to stem the spread of the coronavirus, Vermont’s Bread and Puppet Theater returned to once again present its annual end of summer performance of its…Continue Reading →
In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theater plans to sell its Avalon Theatre, the 300-seat 1930s art deco building on Minneapolis’s Lake Street where the company has…Continue Reading →
“In my darkest doubtfulest moments, you know, we’re doomed, humans,” Donovan Zimmerman says at the beginning of the new documentary video “We Are Here.” “They won’t destroy all life on…Continue Reading →
Elka Schumann, co-founder of Vermont’s legendary progressive activist Bread and Puppet Theater, died Sunday, afternoon Aug. 1, “surrounded by her five children and her partner Peter,” DeeDee Halleck writes. Schumann—”our…Continue Reading →
“Is this the beginning?” asks a man in a T-shirt who steps out of the audience of Double Edge Theatre’s new spectacle “Memories and Dreams” to take center stage at…Continue Reading →
Goodbye to our friend Remi Paillard, a part of the Bread and Puppet Theater for decades. He died Monday. Here are photos I took of him over a number of…Continue Reading →