The iconoclastic Bread & Puppet Theater returns to Bennington College. Peter Schumann’s legendary carnival of dissent and ...

I’m proof of the power of puppets. Besides growing up with the Neighborhood of Make-Believe from “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” and the Muppets of Jim Henson’s magic, paper lunch bag puppet shows were ...

Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About a Terrible Monster is Manual Cinema's offering in the 6th Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival. Credit: Rebecca J. Michelson The Chicago International Puppet ...

Madigan Burke is one of the members of the Chicago Puppet Lab presenting their work at this weekend's showcase. Credit: Courtesy Chicago Puppet Lab The annual Chicago International Puppet Theater ...

As part of a celebration of 50 years of creations, Dell’Arte International brings back String & Shadow Puppet Theater for its new, all-ages show, “Or So It Would Seam,” Aug. 11 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in ...

Lying next to a giant Frankenstein monster’s head one night in 1996, under the stage at Steppenwolf Theatre, I was told by a man named Blair Thomas, “We are aware that we are making things that people ...