The Lion King features co-puppet design by Julie Taymor and Michael Curry. There are more than 232 puppets in the show, including rod puppets, shadow puppets and full-sized puppets. The Lion King ...

Bob Baker Marionette Theater has been an L.A. institution for 60 years. Although it was forced to move in 2019 from its original location in downtown L.A., which had been designated a historic ...

EU-funded researchers are exploring the rich tapestry of puppetry in Europe since the 1600s and its contribution to shaping Europe's cultural identity. Professor Didier Plassard is a leading scholar ...

In the heart of Park Slope, Brooklyn sits the quaint Puppetworks, Inc. theater, founded in 1991 by lifelong puppeteer Nicolas Coppola. After spending years on the road touring with another company, Mr ...

Over the decades, hundreds of thousands of Iowa children have grown up watching puppet shows performed by a small troupe from eastern Iowa called the Eulenspiegel Puppet Theatre, based in West Liberty ...

Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About a Terrible Monster is Manual Cinema's offering in the 6th Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival. Credit: Rebecca J. Michelson The Chicago International Puppet ...

KSHB 41 News reporter Braden Bates covers parts of Jackson County, Missouri. He was at the Let's Talk event in Independence and heard about Puppetry Arts Institute's 25th anniversary. He followed up ...

What might be going through these children’s minds as they get up close and personal with a Santa puppet? “So that’s how he gets down the chimney,” John Wehrle of Fort Wayne suggests. “I thought he’d ...