Experience shadow puppetry by firelight! Witness scenes from the dramatic epic Ramayana, complete with scenes of battles, trickery, and the natural world, performed by masters of Tholpavakoothu, a ...

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 ...

Touring bands are a dime a dozen. When you’re a working musician, it’s expected that at some point you’ll go out and hit the dusty trail. For performance artists, that’s a different story entirely.

QUILCENE — String & Shadow Puppet Theater will bring three highly imaginative spectacle performances to the Quilcene Lantern this weekend. Formed in 2020, the theater group has produced an original ...

Centuries before haunted house attractions or horror films, audiences thrilled to magic lantern shows. Also known as phantasmagorias, these performances featured hand-painted glass slides illuminated ...

String and Shadow Puppet Theater's summer shows have taken audiences to the clouds, down a wishing well and into outer space. For its sixth annual al fresco production, the Olympia troupe is visiting ...

Illya Sumanto’s original puppets of female ghosts for her performance in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in November 2024 (all photos Andrew Nachemson/Hyperallergic) KELANTAN, MALAYSIA — A puppet with flowing ...

With help from fellow performers, Zhou Banghui (middle) sets up a shadow puppet theater stage in downtown Xining, Qinghai province.[Photo by Qi Zhiyue/Xinhua] The curtain hangs lightly, its white ...

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 ...

The festival will feature a diverse range of classic and contemporary puppetry styles from around the world, created by puppet artists from England, France, Norway, Denmark, India, Scotland, South ...

“The Snow Queen,” in its opening weekend at Olympia Family Theater, brings a new perspective and elaborate puppets to Hans Christian Andersen’s tale of a land where it’s always winter. The original ...