Bread and Puppet Theater describes its new performance, “Gray Lady Cantata #9,” as a “meditation on grief, war, and resistance.” It’s touring the show—along with “The Possibilitarian Everything Imperatives Show”—from…Continue Reading →
Our friends Bread and Puppet Theater performed its “The Beginning After the End of Humanity Circus” on Cambridge Common on Sunday, Sept. 8, 2024. The show is part of a…Continue Reading →
Bread and Puppet Theater’s “The Beginning After the End of Humanity Circus” is a satirical spectacle of papier-mâché beasts and stilt dancers haunted by Israel’s war on Hamas in Gaza.…Continue Reading →
“And if our yelling does not reach their uninterested ears? Will we invent new yells that are harder to neglect?” asks Vermont’s Bread and Puppet Theater in its terrific and…Continue Reading →
Our friends at Vermont’s Bread and Puppet Theater bring their new performance “The Hope Principle Show: Citizens’ Shame and Hope in the Time of Genocide” to Massachusetts over the next…Continue Reading →
Honk, the annual festival of activist street bands, arrived in Somerville and Cambridge this weekend. Begun here in 2006, the festival has spawned a worldwide movement. These photos are from…Continue Reading →
For several years now, I’ve been making pilgrimages to visionary sites across the United States. Below are a selection of photos from those trips. I’ll add more as I go.…Continue Reading →
Vermont’s Bread and Puppet Theater brought its “The Heart of the Matter Circus” to Cambridge Common on Saturday as part of its September tour of the Northeast. The perform Lawrence,…Continue Reading →
This weekend Bread and Puppet Theater begins a tour of its “The Heart of the Matter Circus” with shows in Cambridge and Lawrence, Massachusetts. (See schedule below.) Admission is free.…Continue Reading →
“We wanted to make something that was very kinetic in our design and that would empower people to have a tactile experience in playing the game,” explains Ben t. Matchstick,…Continue Reading →