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 ...

Entranced by traditional Balinese puppet theater, he developed a modern, multicultural version that he performed around the ...

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 ...

Illya Sumanto’s original puppets of female ghosts for her performance in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in November 2024 (all photos Andrew Nachemson/Hyperallergic) KELANTAN, MALAYSIA — A puppet with flowing ...

Naga, a mythical serpent (late 1700s–early 1800s), West Java (all images © The Trustees of the British Museum, courtesy the British Museum) For centuries, shadow ...

The Charles B. Wang Center at SUNY Stony Brook hosted its annual spellbinding evening of shadow puppetry on Dec. 7, featuring the collaborative brilliance of renowned puppeteers Caroline and Suzanne ...

Many of the puppets were still missing, however, after the theft of a U-haul truck in San Francisco holding props for the critically acclaimed Persian epic “Song of the North.” It was unclear if the ...