In many a generation, and nearly everywhere in the world, puppets are a given. But if you’re only familiar with the old-school, fuzzy-wuzzy hand puppets that were once so popular in the U.S., or Miss ...

While the epic Ramakien is told through nang talung, the art of shadow puppetry from southern Thailand, a shadow puppet from Hamburg, Germany, will portray a child waking up in the middle of the night ...

Full disclosure: I’ve never been a fan of puppets or puppetry. It was a surprise, then, that Shadows, Strings and Other Things, the Museum of Anthropology’s exhibition of puppets from Asia, Europe, ...

In the movie spoof “This Is Spinal Tap,” the band members knew their days were numbered when they got second billing to a puppet show. “Oh no! ” wailed their manager. “If I told them once, I told them ...

You have to be a very particular kind of performer to score a job in the adults-only, seat-of-the-pants, improvised puppet show developed by Brian Henson, son of Muppet creator Jim Henson. "You've ...

No matter how many times Brian Hull and his five person professional puppeteer team perform "String City: Nashville’s Tradition of Music and Puppetry," they can't help but dance and sing along ...

From the outside, with flowers bursting from the window boxes and marionettes peeking from behind the blinds, the Portland Puppet Museum could easily pass for Geppetto's workshop. The red and tan ...

In the celebrated Paul Gallico novella Love Of Seven Dolls, the tiny wood-and-felt cast of a carnival puppet show, each with its own distinct character and perceptive insights, helps to heal the ...