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 ...

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 ...

As part of the 2023 Spring Puppet Forum Series, the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry will host The Making of Feel Your Best Self: Puppet Building and Video Production on Wednesday, April 26, ...

The first annual HarvestFest Puppet Parade will take to the New London streets at 11 a.m. Sept. 23, to celebrate the New London community and the change of the season. Alo Osberg, of Minneapolis, ...

Longtime volunteer artist Ewart Martens tinkered with a piece of rubber, trying to wrap it around a white plastic tube and a metal wire. This combination of previously used materials eventually became ...

The Lion King features co-puppet design by Julie Taymor and Michael Curry. There are more than 232 puppets in the show, including rod puppets, shadow puppets and full-sized puppets. The Lion King ...

When a classic Christmas claymation film is remade into a stage musical, audience members probably expect to have a good time. But this audience member didn’t expect to feel a pang of nostalgia and ...

Tucked away in a small neighborhood below the Hollywood sign is Jackie Smook’s puppet workshop, a small sequestered room with a single work table surrounded by the characters she handcrafts from the ...

PITTSFIELD — Sometimes you have to travel a great distance to discover, in the end, that what you were searching for is much closer at hand. It’s a lesson that, sometimes subtly, sometimes not quite ...