“Melaza” (Molasses), the new work from the Boston-based social justice oriented dance theater company Danza Organica, addresses the United States’ colonial oppression of Puerto Rico. “We shed light on the…Continue Reading →
Saturday brings the 4th annual Vermont Crankie Fest to New England Youth Theater in Brattleboro. “Crankies are scrolling illustrations that accompany songs and stories,” organizers write. “Often lit from behind,…Continue Reading →
WONDERLAND’s guide to theater and performance art to check out from January to March—including Sondheim, shadow puppets, and shows about the Arab Spring, a mass shooting, art forgery, police violence,…Continue Reading →
“I think sometimes puppets and masks are thought of as a primitive and non-modern remnant of indigenous cultures. … And yet they show up,” says John Bell, a Cambridge-based puppeteer…Continue Reading →
Rainy weather led to Bread and Puppet Theater performing its satirical, papier-mache “Domestic Insurrection Circus” inside First Church in Cambridge on Sept. 3, 2017. Acts mocked Donald Trum (though not…Continue Reading →
Bread and Puppet Theater’s ‘Whatforward Circus’ as photographed by Greg Cook in Glover, Vermont, during the weekend of Aug. 21, 2016. The family-friendly satirical, slapstick show poked at Donald Trump…Continue Reading →
New York’s Phantom Limb Company mixes dance, puppetry, tech and experimental theater to create visionary spectacles. They’ve described their latest show, “Memory Rings,” as tracing the “evolving relationship between people and the…Continue Reading →
“Captain Boycott” by Bread and Puppet Theater at the Boston Center for the Arts, Jan. 31, 2015, as photographed by Greg Cook. “The police brutality that serves the state is…Continue Reading →
It is only now, that I’ve finally returned to civilization that I can finally relate the full account of our journey to the highest peak in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on March…Continue Reading →