If your idea of puppetry begins and ends with "Sesame Street," Seattle has a surprise for you. Why it matters: Seattle's ...

A Seattle queer shadow puppetry and performance art duo builds community by creating life from nothing. Their next show, ...

The show comes to Spokane on July 11 for a one-night stop at Olmsted Brothers Green in Kendall Yards, one performance of many ...

Shadow puppetry, also known as "shadow play," is a traditional form of storytelling through the medium of flat articulated, elaborately engraved figures. Manipulating them with silken strings and ...

This shadow puppet is at least 200 years old and is one of the oldest surviving shadow puppets in the world. It represents Bima the hero of the great Hindu epic The Mahabharata. Puppets like this are ...

“Scene of Souls in Hell” (19th century), donkey skin; Shaanxi, China (all images courtesy Museu do Oriente) LISBON — Asian shadow theater is catnip for those with energetic imaginations. Its ...

Wayang kulit, ancient shadow puppetry theater from Southeast Asia, is an art form recognized both for the beauty of its imagery and the richness of its epics passed down from generation to generation.

See inside Global Village's Global Explorers program at Indy's Global Village Welcome Center on Thursday, June 18, 2026, in ...

She worked on the show for her final year of her MFA, which eventually became a comedic lens to explore female trauma.

Never work with children or animals, goes the actors’ maxim. Perhaps add puppets to that, too. “We’ve got the trifecta right here,” says Australian puppeteer Peter Wilson during rehearsals for “Bali ...