Tag Archives: puppetry

With puppetry and magical realism 'Ernie's Secret Life', conceived during the pandemic lockdowns, warms the heart and sparks the sense of wonder.

"It's really important to me to use the arts to say that maybe we can change things and what a better future might look like. We can do it with joy and camaraderie, rather than thinking of it as going without."

The first musical from this fabulously inventive puppeteer ensemble may be the troupe's most charming production yet. Brightly gripping, and written and directed in a classic fabulist style, it's replete with innovative marvels of illusion.

The centuries-old traveling show is brought to life in a charming production at San Antonio's AtticRep.

Inventive puppetry propels this story of an aging God who conceives a new project: to re-create mankind.

Most shows have backdrops. But what happens when the backdrops are the show?

This dreamy, compelling period-piece "movie" is presented live via overhead projector, cardboard puppets, live actors and music.

The wizardly puppetry of Wakka Wakka is back, this time with a fiery tragicomedy about horses, hubris, and the Icelandic bank crisis.

Hand to God is a remarkable display of amazing puppetry amidst a hurricane of raunchy fun. Plus sex and violence. How can you go wrong?

Documentary looks at the nuts and bolts of creating award-winning theater spectacle.