When teachers noticed that children in Oakland preschool and kindergarten classrooms were not engaging in imaginative play or interacting with each other as much after the pandemic, staff at ...

NEW YORK — From Pinocchio to Kermit the Frog to ... Joyce Carol Oates? Yes, it’s a brave new world for puppets, a theatrical zeitgeist where suddenly it seems every playwright is grabbing a sock or ...

For children facing serious medical conditions, the hospital can be a confusing and scary place. Unfamiliar people, weird machines, and strange sounds can be startling and uncomfortable. Which is why ...

For a time, the "p" word was one to be avoided. Call it "object theatre," perhaps. Just not puppets, lest quick judgments be made. But in 1981, at the birth of Handspring Puppet Company, founders ...

Puppet-making is becoming more and more attractive to many young people as puppets become more present on TV and in advertising campaigns, reports Sarah Elhosary The popularity of using puppets in ...

It must come as a bit of a shock to a child to learn that Bert and Ernie (not to mention Cookie Monster, the Count and Grover) are not really alive. Just as an earlier generation of youngsters was ...

Mark Royston’s number one rule for “Devised Puppetry Project” was “Don’t read the newspaper.” The articles tended to distract the actors as they built their puppets out of leftover Daily Bruin ...