“‘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 →
Goodbye to our friend Remi Paillard, a part of the Bread and Puppet Theater for decades. He died Monday. Here are photos I took of him over a number of…Continue Reading →
When people think of Bread and Puppet Theater, they naturally tend to think of the giant puppets and the garlic-slathered sourdough bread that the company serves after performances. But it…Continue Reading →
“Reality is either horizontal or vertical or both,” a woman explains early in Bread and Puppet Theater’s “Diagonal Life: Theory and Praxis,” which the Vermont troupe performed at First Church…Continue Reading →
Honk!—the infectious street party and festival of activist street bands—paraded from Davis Square in Somerville to Harvard Square in Cambridge this afternoon and we where honored to be there. Photos…Continue Reading →
Bread and Puppet Theater brought their “Diagonal Life Circus” to Cambridge Common yesterday afternoon, as the culminating performance of Cambridge Arts’ free, annual Summer In The City series. (I work…Continue Reading →