Centuries before haunted house attractions or horror films, audiences thrilled to magic lantern shows. Also known as ...

Alice Irvin has been fascinated by puppets since she was a child, and now the 2023 Dell’Arte graduate is sharing that passion with a free shadow puppet show — accompanied by live music — tonight at 8 ...

For years, Buffalo’s own Nusantara Arts has been curating exceptional Indonesian shadow puppet and Javanese dance performances, set to traditional gamelan music. Leave your traditional idea of what a ...

An Emmy Award-winning performance collective is making a second appearance at the Spoleto Festival since being founded back in 2010. Manual Cinema has been an innovative force in the shadow puppet ...

Tholpavakoothu is a ritualistic form of shadow puppetry performed at temples dedicated to Goddess Kali in Kerala. Practiced by the Pulavars, the only surviving puppetry community in Kerala, who ...

"I've been talking about it in bars for a long time," says Randy Baker of "After the Flood," his play about a Westerner on a spiritual/romantic/coming-of-age quest in ...

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San Diego's Twisted Heart Puppetworks presents the first annual "Shadows Across the Globe" virtual, worldwide shadow puppet festival July 9-11, 2021, with free performances streaming online. In ...

Manual Cinema is a Chicago-based collective that creates what can best be described as live movies onstage using shadow ...

Jesse Kingsley was in full geek-out mode. Despite being a puppet builder and enthusiast for more than two decades, he had never peered inside the head of a Chinese lion costume — those vibrant, furry ...

A huge humpback whale is among the mysterious creatures inhabiting String and Shadow Puppet Theater’s “Ship of Fools.” Courtesy of String and Shadow Puppet Theater String and Shadow Puppet Theater’s ...