Simple hand shadow puppets like birds and butterflies won’t cut it at this week’s Manual Cinema collaboration with O, Miami. The Chicago-based company brings an entire cinematic show of shadow ...

The Wang Center’s theater in Stony Brook University glowed softly as Wrapped Presence unfolded, a spellbinding shadow puppet performance created by Caroline and Madeleine Borderies, with Andre ...

In this solo performance, Blair Thomas presents traditional hand puppets, a one-man band accompanied by rod marionettes and shadow puppets performing on a series of hand cranked paper scrolls. "Among ...

Don’t be alarmed. But Chicago is having an invasion this month. An invasion … of puppets. The Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival is a brand-new event celebrating the art of puppetry in its ...

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 ...

My brush was tiny, more like something you’d use for nail polish. That was apt because I was struggling to paint the toenails of my dragon shadow puppet. Dipping the silken brush into a pot of ...

<p>Song Dongqing performs the Changing Masks puppet show. Face changing is a popular stage technique way to display the complex emotions of the characters. (Aaric Bryan/Daily Inter Lake)</p> <p>Pan ...

To create a bedazzling puppet show of light and shadows requires little more than simple equipment, some sleight of hand, and a lot of imagination. At a special workshop, Fantasy Puppet Theatre Works ...