“Earthlings are now aflame and consequently need inflammatory rants, directed against the arsonist: Western Civilization and its incompetent government,” Bread and Puppet Theater Director Peter Schumann says of the Vermont…Continue Reading →
“Bread and Puppet Theater: Art and Activism in Five Acts” showcases five decades of masks, giant puppets and books relating to performances and protests from the legendary Vermont experimental and…Continue Reading →
Bread and Puppet Theater performed its “Apocalypse Defiance Circus” on Cambridge Common on Sept. 4 as part of its national tour. The performance was supported by Cambridge Arts. The show…Continue Reading →
Bread and Puppet Theater performed its “Apocalypse Defiance Circus” at its home base in Glover, Vermont, on Aug. 28 as it prepared to take the show on a national tour.…Continue Reading →
In the early 1970s, French actress Genevieve Yeuillaz had a fateful meeting with Peter Schumann, the founder of the landmark experimental and activist Bread and Puppet Theater. She was performing…Continue Reading →
“‘Ecstatic Decrepitude’ is presented on two stories,” Bread and Puppet Theater founder Peter Schumann writes of his exhibition at ArtYard in Frenchtown, New Jersey, from April 30 to July 31,…Continue Reading →
Our friends Bread and Puppet Theater performed “Finished Waiting” at First Church in Cambridge tonight as part of their spring tour of the Northeast. The tour continues through April 3…Continue Reading →
After cancelling last year’s visit to stem the spread of the coronavirus, Vermont’s Bread and Puppet Theater returned to once again present its annual end of summer performance of its…Continue Reading →
Elka Schumann, co-founder of Vermont’s legendary progressive activist Bread and Puppet Theater, died Sunday, afternoon Aug. 1, “surrounded by her five children and her partner Peter,” DeeDee Halleck writes. Schumann—”our…Continue Reading →
“Dirty painful reality doesn’t allow these paintings to be abstract and enjoy abstinence from that dirt and pain,” Bread & Puppet Theater Founder and Artistic Director Peter Schumann writes of…Continue Reading →