Puppets and Puppetry

Christmas: Impossible

Hidebound at In the Heart of the Beast

Chicka-Boom!

Brute Heart

Field Trip Day MPLS

Uniquinox: A Street Festival of the Imagination

The Sorcerer's Apprentice at Open Eye

Puppeteers make magic happen

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Puppeteers make magic happen

Open Eye tackles 'Sorcerer's Apprentice'

​​For his first full-length, all-new piece of puppetry theater in five years, Michael Sommers has gone back to the same well that fueled his last one. In 2007, Sommers opened Open Eye Figure Theatre's new space with an adaptation of Goethe's  Prelude to Faust. This time, he picks one of the ... More >>

The Lion King at the Orpheum

Play delivers on the hype

Trash Film Debauchery: Puppet Master

Play delivers on the hype

Joice Rejoice at Open Eye Figure Theatre

Kevin Kling explores life, death, and return to the living

Refreshments

Kevin Kling explores life, death, and return to the living

tUnE-yArDs' Merrill Garbus talks puppetry, playfulness, and learning to use her voice

​I'm positive that Merrill Garbus didn't answer her phone the first time I called because she wanted me to hear her voicemail greeting. "Thi-iS iS m-m-E-rr-ilL l-E-a-V-e A m-esS-age," a creaking voice insists, while bounding up and down amidst an octave's worth of notes.

Avenue Q revamped at Mixed Blood

More puppets being naughty

Avenue Q

More puppets being naughty

Toy Theatre After Dark

More puppets being naughty

Rock the Cradle

More puppets being naughty

The Holiday Pageant

More puppets being naughty

'Dark Matters' brings surreal puppetry to the Walker

​The first piece in the Walker Art Center's Adventures in New Puppetry series is going to be a tough act to follow. This weekend, dancer and choreographer Crystal Pite and her company Kidd Pivot Frankfurt RM will perform a piece that "explores the idea of undetectable forces at work in cosmolo ... More >>

Quintron and Miss Pussycat at the Triple Rock, 6/26/10

Photo courtesy of the artist​Quintron is famous for being an unrestrained type of genius, spreading his patented (literally) badass garage dance or swamp tech to all corners of the globe or at least America, organs and their Cadillac façade and soulmate and talking puppet stage in tow. Quintron a ... More >>

Walker Art Center announces 2010-11 season

Ralph Lemon at the Walker in September: a lonely road​I'm on the phone with Walker Art Center curator for performing arts Philip Bither; the topic is the 2010-11 season, and the man is clearly jazzed. "One of the major threads of this season is even further erosions between disciplinary lines," sa ... More >>

"Puppetry Of The Penis" at Pantages: Dick tricks on a new level

It's two dudes playing with their dicks. What more do you need?

Jesse Ventura calls Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin puppets

Joyce Behar gives Jesse Ventura all the room he needs for a body slam on performance artists Michele "my congresswoman" Bachmann and Sarah "she's a quitter" Palin. "These two are puppets," he says -- and more. Watch:

Toy Theatre After Dark IV

Joyce Behar gives Jesse Ventura all the room he needs for a body slam on performance artists Michele "my congresswoman" Bachmann and Sarah "she's a quitter" Palin. "These two are puppets," he says -- and more. Watch:

Seeds

Joyce Behar gives Jesse Ventura all the room he needs for a body slam on performance artists Michele "my congresswoman" Bachmann and Sarah "she's a quitter" Palin. "These two are puppets," he says -- and more. Watch:

Erotic Valentines: A Shadow Show

Joyce Behar gives Jesse Ventura all the room he needs for a body slam on performance artists Michele "my congresswoman" Bachmann and Sarah "she's a quitter" Palin. "These two are puppets," he says -- and more. Watch:

La Natividad

Joyce Behar gives Jesse Ventura all the room he needs for a body slam on performance artists Michele "my congresswoman" Bachmann and Sarah "she's a quitter" Palin. "These two are puppets," he says -- and more. Watch:

Dia de los Muertos Celebracíon

Joyce Behar gives Jesse Ventura all the room he needs for a body slam on performance artists Michele "my congresswoman" Bachmann and Sarah "she's a quitter" Palin. "These two are puppets," he says -- and more. Watch:

Like a Virgin

Joyce Behar gives Jesse Ventura all the room he needs for a body slam on performance artists Michele "my congresswoman" Bachmann and Sarah "she's a quitter" Palin. "These two are puppets," he says -- and more. Watch:

East Harriet RoseFest

Joyce Behar gives Jesse Ventura all the room he needs for a body slam on performance artists Michele "my congresswoman" Bachmann and Sarah "she's a quitter" Palin. "These two are puppets," he says -- and more. Watch:

Stevie Ray's Comedy Troupe: Improv in the Park

Joyce Behar gives Jesse Ventura all the room he needs for a body slam on performance artists Michele "my congresswoman" Bachmann and Sarah "she's a quitter" Palin. "These two are puppets," he says -- and more. Watch:

Cinematic Titanic: LIVE!

Joyce Behar gives Jesse Ventura all the room he needs for a body slam on performance artists Michele "my congresswoman" Bachmann and Sarah "she's a quitter" Palin. "These two are puppets," he says -- and more. Watch:

The Tiny Jumbo Jolly Grim Show

Joyce Behar gives Jesse Ventura all the room he needs for a body slam on performance artists Michele "my congresswoman" Bachmann and Sarah "she's a quitter" Palin. "These two are puppets," he says -- and more. Watch:

Beakman LIVE!

Joyce Behar gives Jesse Ventura all the room he needs for a body slam on performance artists Michele "my congresswoman" Bachmann and Sarah "she's a quitter" Palin. "These two are puppets," he says -- and more. Watch:

The Hobbit

Joyce Behar gives Jesse Ventura all the room he needs for a body slam on performance artists Michele "my congresswoman" Bachmann and Sarah "she's a quitter" Palin. "These two are puppets," he says -- and more. Watch:

The Moscow Ballet’s 'Great Russian Nutcracker'

Joyce Behar gives Jesse Ventura all the room he needs for a body slam on performance artists Michele "my congresswoman" Bachmann and Sarah "she's a quitter" Palin. "These two are puppets," he says -- and more. Watch:

Spotlight: Ode to Walt Whitman

Joyce Behar gives Jesse Ventura all the room he needs for a body slam on performance artists Michele "my congresswoman" Bachmann and Sarah "she's a quitter" Palin. "These two are puppets," he says -- and more. Watch:

Pulling Strings

An unlikely production company called 3 Legged Race delves into the forsaken realm of puppetry, circus acts, and performance art

Torture for Tots

Shockheaded Peter inflicts exquisite punishment on naughty children

Made in Taiwan

Hou Hsiao-hsien's trademark is his cinematic search for a Taiwanese identity

No Strings

Hou Hsiao-hsien's trademark is his cinematic search for a Taiwanese identity

Daily Bread, Humble Pie

Theatre de la Jeune Lune's The Golem shapes a feast from clay; Guthrie Lab's Sweeney Todd makes mincemeat of paupers

Here Comes the Sun

Help! I'm trapped inside a giant ant! Are you wearing clothes underneath that kale? What's that baby doing in the birthday cake? Tales of myth and magic from Minneapolis's May Day parade.

He's the Muppetry Man. He Made Things All Right

The passion and gift of Jim Henson lives on

Haunting the House

The passion and gift of Jim Henson lives on

Animal House

The passion and gift of Jim Henson lives on

The Puppet Master

After two decades as a theatrical jack-of-all-trades, Michael Sommers pulls the strings for his first full-length performance

I'm Your Puppet

Rug Burn: Pakistani children rejoice in cheerful sweatshop in HOBT's Web Sight.