Some new animals have moved in to the Philadelphia Zoo. And these animals can talk. “X-tink-shun: A wild puppet x-perience,” opening at the zoo Saturday, tells the important story of endangered ...

Puppet Showplace Theater will present its winter season from January to March 2026, featuring educational programs and ...

San Diego's Twisted Heart Puppetworks presents the first annual "Shadows Across the Globe" virtual, worldwide shadow puppet festival July 9-11, 2021, with free performances streaming online. In ...

According to film historians, movies have their origin in the ancient Chinese art of shadow puppetry, where puppeteers manipulate figures made of paper or animal skin against a backlit translucent ...

Shadow puppetry is afoot in the darkened lobby of Ent Center for the Arts. A masked puppeteer works quickly, moving projector sheets back and forth and up and down as he stands behind an old-school ...

What happens when you bring together three visionary Bay Area theater creators who have never worked together before? In the case of “Sojourner ZY,” you get a futuristic space fantasy full of liquid, ...

Never work with children or animals, goes the actors’ maxim. Perhaps add puppets to that, too. “We’ve got the trifecta right here,” says Australian puppeteer Peter Wilson during rehearsals for “Bali ...

Shadow puppetry, also known as "shadow play," is a traditional form of storytelling through the medium of flat articulated, elaborately engraved figures. Manipulating them with silken strings and ...