Mention the word puppets and you might think Sooty and Sweep, or the eternally popular antics of The Muppets. But puppetry, as I’ve increasingly appreciated over recent years, is far from being ...

Photograph courtesy of the Center for Puppetry Arts When The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales was first published in 1992, the children’s book became immediately popular and won awards ...

Puppetry is more than just child’s play at Children’s Fairyland, Oakland’s iconic storybook theme park. Small children have been stimulated by the wonders of live performance at the Storybook Puppet ...

Bullicio Puppets, a death metal puppet act from Chile, encourages children to mosh and rock out with a lovable, headbanging puppet character named Jack Distortion that mimes classic heavy tracks from ...

When teachers noticed that children in Oakland preschool and kindergarten classrooms were not engaging in imaginative play or interacting with each other as much after the pandemic, staff at ...

Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts will present Mr. B's Puppet Camp and Playful Evolving Monsters, two brand new puppetry camps that will be held in August as part of Bay Street ...

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Megan Piphus Peace, crew member and voice of Gabrielle on "Sesame Street." It has been edited for length and clarity. I first learned ...

Puppet Showplace Theater, New England's center for puppetry arts, has announced its Summer 2026 season, featuring a vibrant lineup of family performances, free outdoor events, evening puppetry for ...