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 →
“Thank you. You people are part of a movement,” Maurice Emmanuel Parent said as he stood on a chair in the lobby of Cambridge’s Central Square Theater last night, glass…Continue Reading →
Photos from the Montreal’s 13th annual Festival de Casteliers, a showcase of international puppetry (which sponsored my visit) from March 8 to 11. Thursday “Les Bêtes dansent ou le sortilège…Continue Reading →
“The show is a love letter to theater and show biz,” Ronnie Burkett says during a question-and-answer session after performing his “The Daisy Theatre” at Montreal’s Centaur Theatre last Thursday…Continue Reading →