Photos: Bread and Puppet Theater’s ‘Diagonal Life Circus’
Bread and Puppet Theater performed its “Diagonal Life Circus” at its home base in Glover, Vermont, at 3 p.m. each Sunday afternoon from July 7 to Aug. 25, 2019. I…Continue Reading →
Double Edge Theatre Reimagines ‘Baron Munchausen’ As A Visionary Adventure
“Idiots!” and “Balderdash!” Baron Munchausen hollers, interrupting the vaudevillians’ truncated staging of Homer’s “Odyssey” (Ulysses drowns). Clad in a red coat with gold epaulets, Munchausen climbs down from a rooftop…Continue Reading →
Bread and Puppet Theater’s ‘Diagonal Life’ Addresses Politics, Migration, Global Warming
Three large brown papier-mâché puppets arrive on the blue curtained stage early on in Bread and Puppet Theater’s “Diagonal Life: Theory and Praxis.” The puppets depict head and hands, perhaps…Continue Reading →
Unicorns! Gorgons! Manticores! In Metropolitan Chorale’s Collaboration With Puppet Showplace Theater
Unicorns, gorgons and other fantastical creatures abound in the Metropolitan Chorale’s performance of Gian Carlo Menotti’s “The Unicorn, The Gorgon and The Manticore” and R. Murray Schafer’s “A Medieval Bestiary”…Continue Reading →
Leonora Carrington’s Magic Realist Paintings Come Alive at Double Edge Theatre
UPDATE: Double Edge Theatre is performing “Leonora & Alejandro: La Maga y el Maestro” again on Feb. 14 and 15, 2020, at its theater at 948 Conway Road, Ashfield, Massachusetts. The company will also…Continue Reading →
Is Harvard’s American Repertory Theater Leaving Cambridge?
A $100 million donation “will enable Harvard to imagine a 21st-century research and performance center in Allston,” the Cambridge university announced today, making it “possible to reimagine the university’s arts…Continue Reading →
‘Ajijaak On Turtle Island,’ Heather Henson’s Puppet Spectacle With Indigenous Roots
“Ajijaak on Turtle Island”—by Heather Henson (daughter of Muppets creator Jim Henson) and IBEX Puppetry—is an environmental fable, Henson says, about “how to survive and thrive into the future.” The…Continue Reading →
Sandglass Theater’s Refugee Stories: ‘Is It Our Responsibility To Help Everyone?’
Woven through “Babylon: Journeys of Refugees” by Sandglass Theater is a version of the American debate about immigrants and migrants and refugees. “It’s our obligation to open the door when…Continue Reading →
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company Partners With Right Wing Federalist Society
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company is again partnering with the right wing conservative Federalist Society for this year’s “Shakespeare and the Law” program, which “takes on the themes of belief and the…Continue Reading →
‘Is There An African American Puppetry?’ Exhibit Surveys An Often Overlooked Art
“Is there an African American puppetry? That’s the question we’re trying to answer with this exhibit,” says John Bell, director of the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the…Continue Reading →