In our highly visual culture, they’re a natural addition to live theater, says Claudia Orenstein, 61, a puppetry scholar and ...

Puppeteers recently gathered on the lawn in Central Park outside the Swedish Marionette Theater on March 20, World Puppetry Day.

It’s not everyday that you run into a puppet maker. Over the years, I have been fortunate to know a handful of puppet makers who reside in Buffalo. Puppet makers and puppeteers might be few and far ...

Shadow puppets are accompanied by dancing at Chris Myer's Fire in the Head performance, as part of French Institute Alliance Français's Crossing the Line festival (all photos by Aditi Jhaveri) ...

For decades Jim Henson was able to use television to bring the art of puppetry to massive audiences in a very intimate way on programs like Sesame Street and The Muppet Show. Because of his work, ...

At every step, this time-honored art reveals a handmade spirit — the quiet ingenuity of turning the simplest light into a ...

Staunton's Off Center asks if a play about blood-thirsty theropods taking over the government is too on the nose. Find out in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alexis Wong, Christen Tai, and Jesse Kingsley with Moira MacDonald's puppet Svetlana at the L.A. Guild of Puppetry's monthly ...

KSHB 41 News reporter Braden Bates covers parts of Jackson County, Missouri. He was at the Let's Talk event in Independence and heard about Puppetry Arts Institute's 25th anniversary. He followed up ...

A University graduate student is launching beginner art classes in Champaign-Urbana, focusing on animation, claymation and ...

Circuses are usually a light-hearted affair with cotton candy and corny clowns. But on Thursday night in Santa Fe, one ...

Although widely regarded as a cultural “speciality” attracting tourists, VN puppetry is facing multiple challenges in ...