This week, the Puppeteers of America Board of Directors convened in Detroit, MI for our annual meetings. We now get to have a BLAST at the Great Plains Regional Festival, AKA “Motor City Puppet Blast.” This amazing 3-day puppetry festival features outstanding performances, film screenings, and workshops, most of which take place at one of […]
Winter 2013 Puppetry Journal
Our latest Puppetry Journal is here! Our cover story is an article about the amazing changes happening at University of Connecticut’s Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry. We are pleased to offer this cover story to all of you for FREE! Click here to check it out. Also, you can see the entire table […]
Hammer Projects: Wael Shawky – Cabaret Crusades: The Horror Show File (2010)
Closing soon, an installation at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles features the work of Egyptian artist Wael Shawky. The film Cabaret Crusades: The Horror Show File utilizes the Lupi marionettes of Italy as charasters. The exhibit runs August 17-January 5, 2014 Read more here: hammer.ucla.edu
Smithsonian Exhibit: Puppetry in America
On December 13, 2013 The Smithsonian will open a new exhibit: Puppetry in America. From the Smithsonian’s website: This artifact wall will display two different rotations of objects from the stage and screen that cover over 160 years of American puppetry. Rotation 1 will include a Chinese-inspired shadow puppet from 1850, Punch and Judy hand puppets, a Slugger […]
Puppet and Paper Theatre, Teschner´s Figurenspiel
If you’re in Austria anytime soon, be sure to plan a visit to the Austrian Theatre Museum. They have a very nice collection of Richard Teschner’s rod puppets, as well as a collection of shadow puppets that belonged to Heinrich Rudolph Ruprecht. Not going to be in that part of the world? You can see […]