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

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 ...

The show will take place at the Quilcene Lantern, 7360 Center Road, on Friday and Saturday night with doors opening at 6 p.m.

Masked actors wearing elaborate, feathered costumes manipulated puppets behind a large 15-by-30-foot screen, creating dancing shadows and silhouettes that told an ancient story of love and war. Hamid ...

Children sat cross-legged in front of the stage, waiting eagerly for a shadow-puppet performance as families gathered at the China Institute on Sunday in New York to celebrate the traditional ...

There are tensions between those who wish to preserve the nature of shadow play and those who want to see it evolve. Shadow puppets are accompanied by dancing at Chris Myer's Fire in the Head ...

The 160 shadow puppets (by Neda Kazemifar and Spica Wobbe) are so finely wrought that you can trace an individual tress of hair as it flows and coils down a puppet’s back. A king’s throne, seen in ...