The Portland Puppet Museum proves that niche museums can be just as compelling as their larger, more famous counterparts.

Entranced by traditional Balinese puppet theater, he developed a modern, multicultural version that he performed around the world. “In Xanadu” (1993), one of Larry Reed’s modern shadow puppet ...

The “Somos Uno: Mexican and Mexican American Puppetry” exhibit at the University of Connecticut’s Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry covers the history of puppetry in Mexico and by doing that, ...

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 ...

A show called “The Sex Lives of Puppets” is enough to attract attention, and I would have attributed the full house at the Victory Gardens Biograph Theatre on Monday to judicious marketing had I not ...

The most successful musical of all time, Disney's The Lion King, is once again visiting the Buell Theatre. The Denver Center for the Performing Arts first launched the tour of the show more than 20 ...

Althea Clayton, a puppeteer with Paperhand Puppet Intervention, looks out from a river puppet during a rehearsal for the organization’s show, “The Gift,” on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025, at the Forest ...