Invoking historical costumes and cartoonish faces, Johnston's otherworldly cast seems both familiar and strange.

For puppet fans out there, another performance is coming to the Ballard Institute as part of its 2026 Spring Puppet ...

The 12th Annual New Orleans Giant Puppet Festival is fast approaching, with more puppet offerings than ever before.

A creative spin on the classic tale of "Goldilocks" is available to stream online starting Thursday through the Nashville ...

The Laguna Lab, an arts and event space in Sebastopol, held its long-planned official opening last month despite a funding gap.

Crowds are flocking to an annual festival for performances of “A Doll’s House,” a “Macbeth”-inspired witch tale and more featuring puppets big and small. Critic’s Notebook Crowds are flocking to an ...

Their music was never really meant to be heard by that many people, and the band’s frontwoman never set out to be a lead singer, but that all changed after one live show and then landing on the label ...

The decades-old radical troupe Bread and Puppet, famed for its protest art including giant puppets, is touring again — mixing circus, politics... Bread and Puppet Theater is still working to 'make the ...

A puppeteer plays a mourning mother in Gaza during a performance of Our Domestic Resurrection Revolution In Progress! in Ypsilanti, Mich. (Timothy Chen Allen) Generations of peacenik Americans first ...

Popular at parties — often filled with treats and toys that can only be obtained through blind mass destruction — the humble piñata typically does not ask much of its users. But this weekend and next, ...

James Abbott II has always been a performer. And, he said, "I have always done things out of the box." That's a fitting statement for the founder of Puppet Karaoke Detroit. Abbott, a 37-year-old ...

SAUGERTIES, N.Y. — Arm-of-the-Sea Theater’s larger-than-life puppets bring the 19th-century industrial legacy of the village’s Esopus Waterfront to life, in “Rags to Riches to Ruin” on July 23 and 30, ...