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 ...

Trouble Puppet Theater Co. announces UNDARK: A Radioactive PuppetPlay, telling the story of Americas WWI-era Radium Girls, produced with the support of a Workshop Grant from the Jim Henson Foundation.

January 8, 2026 - It's time for John Fensterwald's annual predictions for what's in store for education in 2026. Puppetry is more than just child’s play at Children’s Fairyland, Oakland’s iconic ...

Every winter, Chicago becomes the epicenter of the puppet theater world. Here are some titles and companies not to miss.

Dracula the Puppet Play, Hystopolis Productions, at Red Hen Productions. Why have the uneven puppeteers at Redmoon become Chicago’s darlings when there’s a company like Hystopolis in town? This ...

Trouble Puppet has long been one of Austin’s stellar theatre companies. They are incomparable creatives whose tools are only limited by imagination and UNDARK is a prime example of why they have ...

This year, the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival claims that the city will become ‘the puppetry capital of the world’. This is not a reference to hedge fund managers and Mayor Lori ...

Thanks in part to the genius of Jim Henson, many people think of puppets merely as child’s play. The same puppets that entertain children challenge adults. They ask them to look deeper, suspend their ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. On Saturday, March 8rd I went down to ...

On the third night of their four-night residency on late night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Metallica not only played their legendary song "Master of Puppets" in full, they also played with puppets ...

WHEN: 7 p.m. Friday, May 23 (in English); 2 p.m. Saturday, May 24 (in Spanish, with English description); for workshop dates, visit tcataos.org WHERE: Taos Center for the Arts, 145 Paseo Del Pueblo ...