This summer’s version of Bread and Puppet Theater’s celebrated circus—“The Grasshopper Rebellion Circus”—has been criticizing the federal Immigration Customs Enforcement agency (ICE), global warming and capitalism. It’s been honoring a…Continue Reading →
Bread and Puppet Theater’s “Or Else” is a show about dark times in the land, channeling a national sense of things gone dangerously wrong, of wicked people in charge who…Continue Reading →
“Refugee puppetry and poetry in English and Español,” is how Paradox Teatro has described their shadow puppet show “Migraciones.” “In light of expanding border walls around the globe, ‘Migraciones’ follows…Continue Reading →
Bread And Puppet Theater’s “Out-of-Joint Hamlet”—which the legendary experimental, activist puppet and mask troupe is performing in their Paper Mache Cathedral in Glover, Vermont, on Friday nights at 7:30 through…Continue Reading →
“They’re basically rising their lives for our tradition,” Mai Du, championships director and federation co-founder, told the crowd that come to see the jong performance at the first United States…Continue Reading →
At the heart of the Lyric Stage Company’s production of “The Wiz” are questions of home, says director Dawn M. Simmons. “Do you run away from it or do you…Continue Reading →
What happens when you take India’s two-millennia-old epic the “Mahabharata” and retell it with an all-female cast? That’s the experiment Stage Ensemble Theater Unit (SETU) explores in its performances at…Continue Reading →
“When a legally purchased gun, symbol of the free, turns on a school and takes 17 lives, are the free still free? Or are they irresponsible and stupid?” The performer,…Continue Reading →
When “The Basic Bye-bye Show,” which Bread and Puppet Theater performs at Boston’s Spontaneous Celebrations from April 19 to 22, was developed in performances at the troupe’s Glover, Vermont, farm…Continue Reading →
With high-wire walkers, trapeze artists and acrobats, the Big Apple Circus performs under a “Big Top” tent at Somerville’s Assembly Row through Sunday, May 6. Update: The show has been…Continue Reading →