Art teacher Cheryl Capezzuti led out a dozen or so towering, colorfully costumed characters. “It’s puppet time!” she cried.

“What are some puppets that could come out of this story?” asked Sharon Chappell, directing the attention of a dozen youngsters at the Chicago Cultural Center to a “frozen moment” in which two ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will open the new display “Puppetry in America” Dec. 13, featuring several Jim Henson puppet characters, the namesake puppet from The Howdy Doody ...

Walk into the Fremont studio of puppetmaker Annett Mateo and you’ll find yourself in a marionette menagerie. There’s a swan and an elephant from Camille Saint-Saën’s “Carnival of the Animals” and a ...

Humans have enjoyed puppet shows for thousands of years, and cultures around the world have developed their own techniques and traditions, from ancient India and Plutarch’s Rome to wayang kulit shadow ...

Oberon lost his thumb while in Los Angeles. With no warning, pop — it just fell off. Such are the dangers when you’re a character in the Bristol Old Vic’s latest production with the Handspring Puppet ...

Fakeha Naeem, Contributing Writer  VCUarts Theatre, in collaboration with Virginia Repertory Theatre, returned with Puppetry 102, the second class puppet related workshops, with Mary Nagler, an artist ...