Bread & Puppet Theater’s “Upside Down World Circus” is a circus of stilters and dancing puppet horses and clowning puppet bears and giant sacred puppets towering over the circus ring.…Continue Reading →
“Through all the world below / God is seen all around / Search hills and valleys / Through there she’s found,” sing the performers, all clad in white, as they…Continue Reading →
In 1981, Bread and Puppet Theater toured Germany performing “Woyzeck,” their version of German writer Georg Buchner’s sad, bleak, femicide play, which he left in unfinished fragments at his death…Continue Reading →
Our friends Bread and Puppet Theater brought “The End of the World Never Minding Show!” to Somerville’s Center for the Arts at the Armory last night near the end of…Continue Reading →
“It’s more important than ever to remember the ways of our ancestors,” Maria Schumann told the crowd as she launched the “Spring Ritual” on the Circus Field at Bread and…Continue Reading →
Visiting our friends at Bread and Puppet Theater in Glover, Vermont, buried under the snow and fringed with the icicles of mid-winter, with temperatures below zero, it can look like…Continue Reading →
With temperatures hovering around zero, we went to see Bread and Puppet Theater perform “Life and Death Precision Dances with Happiness Obligation Prologue” on Feb. 8, 2026, the last performance…Continue Reading →
Our friends Bread & Puppet Theater bring their “Our Domestic Resurrection Revolution in Progress Circus” to Cambridge Common on Saturday, Sept. 13, 2025, at 4 p.m. in partnership with Cambridge…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 →
“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 →