SHINNAI MEETS PUPPETRY Comes to the Japan Society
by Stephi Wild - Oct 16, 2024
Japan Society will present a world premiere double bill of contemporary puppet theater with Shinnai Meets Puppetry, created & performed by Sachiyo Takahashi/Nekaa Lab with Rowan Magee and Emma Wiseman.
Japan Society Reveals 2024-2025 Performing Arts Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jul 29, 2024
Japan Society has unveiled its 2024-2025 Performing Arts Season, featuring a diverse lineup of traditional and contemporary performances from Japan. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.
Video: Get an Inside Look Into the Making of LIFE OF PI's Puppetry
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Oct 27, 2022
American Repertory Theater is set to present the North American premiere of Life of Pi. Written by Lolita Chakrabarti based on the best-selling novel by Yann Martel and directed by Max Webster, Life of Pi begins performances at the Loeb Drama Center on Sunday, December 4. Get an inside look into how the puppetry is brought to life here!
The Center as West Park Announces New Cohort Of Puppetry Artists
by Stephi Wild - Oct 18, 2022
THE CENTER AT WEST PARK (CWP), the Upper West Side's cultural hub for diverse, engaging, and boundary-pushing performing arts, announces the Cohort of resident artists selected for the 2022/2023 Object Movement Puppetry Residency & Festival, an annual presentation of new short works developed in residence at The Center at West Park.
Octopus Theatricals Brings Free Mobile Puppet Performances Across NYC This Summer
by Stephi Wild - Jul 25, 2022
Octopus Theatricals, in partnership with Phantom Limb Company and Arts Brookfield, announced a series of new mobile puppet performances collectively titled, “THE PUPPET CYCLE: Small World Stories.” Commissioned by Arts Brookfield, the performances are free, open to the public and will premiere at Brookfield Properties' Manhattan West, Zuccotti Park, and Brooklyn Commons in late July and August.
HERE Announces Full Programming for PUPPETOPIA
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Apr 4, 2022
The Obie Award-winning HERE has announced programming for Puppetopia, a presentation of HERE’s Dream Music Puppetry program. Puppetopia will run May 11–22, 2022 in the HERE Mainstage & Dorothy B. Williams Theatres (145 Sixth Avenue, New York, NY 10013).
BILL'S 44TH to Return To Dixon Place This January
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 15, 2021
Bill's 44th (a 55-minute comedic puppet show for adults) created by Dorothy James and Andy Manjuck, returns for 9 live performances at Dixon Place in New York City, January 11-15, 2022.
HERE Extends Nick Lehane's Puppet Play CHIMPANZEE Through May 5
by Julie Musbach - Mar 14, 2019
In response to popular demand, HERE (Kristin Marting, Founding Artistic Director) extends the world premiere of Nick Lehane's Chimpanzee, to May 5.Currently scheduled to run until March 17, the production will pause and then resume performances April 16-May 5. Visit here.org for the performance schedule.
HERE Presents Nick Lehane's Puppet Play CHIMPANZEE
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 13, 2019
To endow animals with human emotion has long been a scientific taboo. But if we do not, we risk missing something fundamental, about animals and us. Frans de Waal, primatologist and ethologist
LABA Presents Two Second Stage Productions At The Theater At The 14th St Y
by Stephi Wild - Jan 25, 2018
LABA presents two Second Stage events at The Theater at the 14th Street Y, 344 E. 14th Street, New York, NY 10003, in February 2018. 'The first year of the LABA fellowship is really about the first encounter -- the first try, the impulse, a first creative sketch and creating a touch point for the artist,' said Ronit Muszkatblit, Artistic Director of LABA. 'In the Second Stage program, we go into the next layer -- it's about finding depth.
Photo Flash: First Look at Eco-Musical GRUFF!
by Julie Musbach - Aug 4, 2017
VITAL THEATRE COMPANY and DOPPELSKOPE are excited to present GRUFF!, an epic, family-friendly fairytale eco-musical with concept and text by Ora Fruchter and Christopher Scheer and music by Toby Singer. Ora Fruchter directs.
BLOSSOM at Dixon Place Begins 9/9
by A.A. Cristi - Aug 2, 2016
Dixon Place is proud to present the new commission, BLOSSOM, created and directed by award-winning puppeteer and Jim Henson resident artist, Spencer Lott.