Handspring’s master puppet designer and maker, Adrian Kohler, elaborated on his personal designs. “For me, the movement of the figure is very important. The movement and the sculptural element are ...

The stylized designs created for Ubu Roi, variations on the loathsome drawings Jarry included with his manuscript, were utterly unlike the more realistic doll-like puppets used in Dracula in 2002.

Six-Week Courses Pop-Up Book as Stage Design with Jaerin Son (Level One) March 8-April 12, Mondays, 7-9 p.m. This class introduces pop-up book paper designs as a technique for puppet theater set ...

J.M. Coetzee's Life and Times of Michael K, presented by Baxter Theatre and Handspring Puppet Company at the 2025 Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival Credit: Fiona McPherson So this year ...

Intricate figures leap, dance and do battle in ‘Song of the North,’ one of the shows featured in the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, kicking off Jan. 18.

Some of the country’s biggest and oldest puppet theater companies sprang out of New York City’s artistic enclaves. Bread + Puppet, now based in Vermont, was founded in the 1960s on the Lower ...

GIRL: She's the resident artist at the Puppet Showplace Theater. She's their puppet expert. Today, we're making a rod puppet. And this-- he's a very simple rod puppet.

In addition to being Bread and Puppet’s founder and director, 88 year-old Peter Schumann, widely considered a genius in the theater world, is also a prolific painter who reportedly finishes a ...

The curtain has fallen for Drawbridge Puppet Theater’s time in Lunenburg — and in Massachusetts. Jeff Koslik, the owner and director of Drawbridge Puppet Theater, was not able to find a new ...