String And Shadow’s ‘Night At The Grand Opera’
“A single night at the Grand Royal Opera House, where industrialists, revolutionaries, the players of the opera house and the vermin who inhabit its walls collide,” is how String and…Continue Reading →
The Puppetry Of ‘Dragons and Mythical Beasts’
How does “Dragons and Mythical Beasts” from the UK’s Nicoll Entertainment make its troll and unicorn and, of course, dragons come to life? Puppetry. Coming to Boston’s Emerson Colonial Theatre…Continue Reading →
Donate To Puppet Showplace To Help Them Weather Alleged Embezzlement
Looking to help Puppet Showplace Theater after alleged embezzlement reported last month left their bank account “fully depleted”? The Board of Trustees of the 46-year-old Brookline cultural institution is directing folks who…Continue Reading →
Puppet Showplace’s Bank Account ‘Fully Depleted’ After Alleged Embezzlement
Puppet Showplace Theater announced yesterday that their “bank account had been fully depleted” after an alleged embezzlement from the 46-year-old Brookline cultural institution. “The treasurer noticed some suspicious transactions after…Continue Reading →
Bread and Puppet Theater’s ‘Diagonal Life’ Addresses Politics, Migration, Global Warming
Three large brown papier-mâché puppets arrive on the blue curtained stage early on in Bread and Puppet Theater’s “Diagonal Life: Theory and Praxis.” The puppets depict head and hands, perhaps…Continue Reading →
‘Ajijaak On Turtle Island,’ Heather Henson’s Puppet Spectacle With Indigenous Roots
“Ajijaak on Turtle Island”—by Heather Henson (daughter of Muppets creator Jim Henson) and IBEX Puppetry—is an environmental fable, Henson says, about “how to survive and thrive into the future.” The…Continue Reading →
Sandglass Theater’s Refugee Stories: ‘Is It Our Responsibility To Help Everyone?’
Woven through “Babylon: Journeys of Refugees” by Sandglass Theater is a version of the American debate about immigrants and migrants and refugees. “It’s our obligation to open the door when…Continue Reading →
‘Is There An African American Puppetry?’ Exhibit Surveys An Often Overlooked Art
“Is there an African American puppetry? That’s the question we’re trying to answer with this exhibit,” says John Bell, director of the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the…Continue Reading →
Puppet Show About Lynching Asks Audience ‘Are They For Justice Or Do They Just Let Things Happen?’
The cardboard pickup truck drives through the audience, blinding people with its headlights, in Tarish “Jeghetto” Pipkins’s puppet show “Just Another Lynching,” which will be performed at Brookline’s Puppet Showplace…Continue Reading →
Paradox Teatro’s Shadow Puppet Show ‘Migraciones’ Illuminates The Harrowing Journeys Of Refugees
“Refugee puppetry and poetry in English and Español,” is how Paradox Teatro has described their shadow puppet show “Migraciones.” “In light of expanding border walls around the globe, ‘Migraciones’ follows…Continue Reading →