Artist Faith Belt, the final 2025 Artist-in-Residence at The Grand Center for Arts & Culture’s Cellar Press, has turned the ...

Tholpavakoothu is a ritualistic form of shadow puppetry performed at temples dedicated to Goddess Kali in Kerala. Practiced ...

This year marks ten years since Damon Belanger, a graphic artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area, first turned everyday ...

The 40-year-old cultural center uses handcrafted puppets to tell traditional stories, including the recent Día de los Muertos ...

Running about 2 hours and 20 minutes, the production combines centuries-old techniques with modern innovation. Traditional ...

Asharq Al Awsat As the guest of honor at the Saudi International Handicrafts Week (Banan), the Chinese pavilion is offering live demonstrations where craftspeople showcase a diverse range of ...

Centuries before haunted house attractions or horror films, audiences thrilled to magic lantern shows. Also known as ...

Manual Cinema is a Chicago-based collective that creates what can best be described as live movies onstage using shadow ...

The 8th Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival will return January 21–February 1, 2026, presenting more than 100 ...

Yes, that Macbeth (puppetry for the character is by Jeffrey Paschal). “The 4th Witch” is set in France, during World War II.

The recent “Leonardo! A Wonderful Show about a Terrible Monster,” which completed a run in early October at the Wheelock ...

In his Republic, Plato mentions a cave in India with an inscription from the second century BCE. The inscription refers to a shadow play performance where puppets of humans and animals were ...