When she finished she plopped down onto her couch like a string puppet that had been cut loose. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

When we were young, she magically turned old socks into puppets that looked exactly like the Muppets. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Then I saw some Popsicle sticks on the art cart that were used to make paper puppets. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The squawky puppet voices sounded very loudly in his ears, shouting something to him, but he couldn't make out any of the words. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Her amazing puppets were going to live now. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She laughed at the puppets, wondered at the soothsayers, applauded the singers, and cheered for the racing horses. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men who pushed and pranced, appearing to us as dark stick puppets before the wall of fire. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The life-size puppet’s blocky jaw flapped open and shut—almost in sync with the words. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

This was a great place to have shadow puppets so 1 made my hand be a wolf and a dog and a duck. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Fashioned entirely of smooth, dark wood, it looked like a primitive puppet not much shorter than Grandpa. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Vola would save her feathers, would make her puppets all alone in the woods, more and more and more of them, and tell that soldier’s story to no one. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

And as I watched them prance and dance around the parking lot like sugared-up puppets, I told myself to stop rationing pleasure as if it were a paycheck. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The chains holding Brer Fox forced his legs to walk around me like a grotesque puppet. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“I can do that puppet show for you now. Come to the barn.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When the spring was released, the fist shot out at a hapless puppet. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

DELPHI: No. To fulfill the prophecy, this has to be you, not a puppet of you. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

On every block, there are stores displaying wristwatches with flowered bands, black radios blasting Vietnamese songs, televisions projecting hand puppets talking to happy young children, and red traditional dresses on headless mannequins. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the unstable puppet kingdom of Judaea, or what we now call Palestine and Israel. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

How I got over it: I told myself that I was a real boy, not a puppet made of wood, and that my nose would never grow. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I see my first television set, which is like a small black-and-white puppet show of no great interest. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

These fairs often contained “Mendel booths,” where the principles of genetics and the laws of inheritance were demonstrated using puppets. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I had been about to say that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were mere puppets, not men, but I thought better of it. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It was a tiresome game, but I had to play it or feel a complete puppet. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, the war raged on, this time between Afghans, the Mujahedin, against the Soviet puppet government of Najibullah, and Afghan refugees kept flocking to Pakistan. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I spent the next several weeks running the argument over and over in my mind, picturing a small dog chasing a puppet across the floor of an abandoned warehouse. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

One held in the arms of a wooden Oaxacan jackal puppet. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Tyson hit it again, and the bronze crumpled under his hands like aluminum foil The bull’s face now looked like a sock puppet pulled inside out. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I mean our current president who was the puppet president the day the girls were killed. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thirty-six little pictures painted on ivory were each perfectly clear: there was no doubt that this was a baby, that a puppet, this a loaf of bread, and so on. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Golden Hours grabbed her shoulders, and she sagged like a puppet whose strings had been cut. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Angry, Father reminded me of a carnival toy, a leather fist attached to a coiled spring used in puppet shows. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

On his left stood a liar who had beat him numb, and on his right stood a dressed-up puppet, afraid of her own shadow. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

These African states have fallen prey to the British-American imperialist conspiracy to use the committee’s recommendations as a pretext for a massive arms support for their puppet and tottering neocolonialist regime in Nigeria.... Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She stopped before a golden trapeze, suspended from the ceiling, on which hung a disjointed life-size puppet. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As though invisible strings were tied to Snape’s wrists, neck, and knees, he was pulled into a standing position, head still lolling unpleasantly, like a grotesque puppet. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“He wants to move. All the puppets want to move because I made them that way. You just have to show them how. Your muscles to theirs, your muscles to theirs.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

And feathers: almost all the puppets wore an assortment of feathers as hair or headdresses, or cloaks or breeches. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Each word diminished them, flattened them against the night until they were puppets, pointing fingers in each other’s faces. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She began making the puppet dance by bobbing the stick and tapping the paddle. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Kendra reached for his other leg, hoping to unhook the shin, but the puppet danced out of reach. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

And that brought us new attacks from the white man and his black puppets. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He swept the puppet over a bale of hay and dropped it onto the wooden egg in the big tin bowl that Vola had painted to look like a nest. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Hugo kicked free of Mendigo, sending the wooden puppet skidding across the floor, then rose to his knees and reached for Muriel. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The puppet had a stick in its back. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“How can you succeed when you let the puppet troops do the fighting?” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

We parked on the street beside the circular brick driveway in front of the Bishops’ house, and Cade carried his puppet book up into the lawn where it would not be seen from the doorway. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I pledge a lesson to the frog of the United States of America, and to the wee puppet for witches’ hands. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

He vanished like a puppet from a stage. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two shadow puppets: The boy on my baseball team and my girlfriend. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Its government prepared meticulously documented claims, rushed them through its puppet court, and demanded immediate payment. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

There was a disappointed chorus from several dozen townsfolk as the puppets stopped midjape and were packed away. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Every act of violence was deliberate, and every favor came with enough strings attached to stage a puppet show. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Were they then both deposed masters of the galaxy and gullible puppets all at once? Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The puppets—marionettes, he could see now that they were marionettes hanging off the wall—were spookily realistic, and yet like nothing he’d ever seen. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He saw no puppet shows, no ladies in swishing dresses, no fancy coaches clattering through the streets. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

In his opening remarks, Tho referred to the Saigon government as an American “puppet,” one that could never stand without a foreign power holding its strings. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The vines from the banyan tree hung over us like they were waiting to turn us into puppets. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

So he carves a puppet, a boy, who magically comes to life. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Your nightfires lie. I was not made for dancing, and I am no man’s puppet.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They passed a glass box of broken puppets, and an overgrown golden music box in a glass case. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

She reached for a screwdriver and disassembled the puppet until he was nothing more than a pile of scattered parts. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Kingshaw kept nudging and pushing against him, trying to get him to look or speak, but he only stared straight ahead, mesmerized by the puppets. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Bailey notes his place in the middle of an article that is comparing the interplay of light and shadow in a particular tent to Indonesian puppet theater before putting the book down. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore’s puppet had come much farther than he had ever expected...too far.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

During the next four centuries its realm steadily expanded until it ruled directly over much of central Mexico and indirectly, through puppet governments, as far south as Guatemala. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Across the playground a bunch of kids by the bike sheds'd turned to puppet shadows in the mist. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

This is an exact report of the hideous puppet show aired on the radio. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I found a children’s show with two fluffy sheep puppets singing in Urdu. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The puppet had lost an arm at the shoulder. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Maybe he can make a puppet out of it. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Without notice, the enemy takes control of my mind and body and I become its puppet. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Kyle went into the Children’s Room, where kids were reading books with their moms and dads or watching a puppet show or listening to a storyteller or singing along with Mother Goose and her goslings. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

James' chubby face was set and unsmiling as Major continued his imitation, scratching his nose, pouting his lips, and shambling loosely like a puppet at the end of jerking strings. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let us pray,” he said and all the heads on the team dropped floorward as though they were puppets strung to the same wire. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She lifted the great winged puppet off the wall again. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The puppet was more than half a head taller than her. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

His father was a stranger during those terrible days, like a sleepwalker going through the motions, like a puppet being maneuvered by invisible strings. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The harder she tried to pull it over his head, the smaller it seemed to become, until finally it might have fitted a hand puppet, but certainly wouldn’t fit Harry. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Next, he lifted the sorceress puppet from its perch and unscrewed its left leg. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Oak would still become his puppet, still be in danger. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He drew her up out of the nest and eased her to the stage, where he’d propped the child puppet beside his carved fox. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I hate her, too, with her knowing reproachful eyes that call me a coward, a monster, a puppet of the Capitol, both now and then. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Their eyes looked dead; their expressions were frozen, like a puppet’s. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I want to see the cartoon. I want to see the puppet boy.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

As tracking data from the spaceship filtered into Mission Control, the toy capsule moved along the orbit grooves on the map too, a puppet controlled by its master in the sky. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The row of windows cast a cold white light, making everything within look like a shadow puppet. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Adam wanders to the side of the bed, pulling me along behind him like a mindless puppet, and shuffles his hand around the end table. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He looks like a forlorn puppet jerking woodenly down the aisle. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

As usual, she spoke without moving her mouth, which could only have been creepier if she’d had a ventriloquism puppet. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Ryan held up one hand and waggled his fingers as if he were working a puppet’s mouth. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

“A puppet I can build and take with me when I join the circus?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Only the puppets were lit up, so that you had to look at them. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“He’s their puppet. They’ll keep the war going through him, you can bet on that.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Nate loved the sidewalk puppet shows and jugglers who spun torches on the street corners. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

I start bobbing around like a puppet, holding up outfits and saying meaningless things like “Don’t you love it?” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Z popped up behind the center desk like a hand puppet. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Performers who brought enormous jellyfish puppets to concerts and other events, making the night sky look exactly like the sea. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The situation passed out of control: they began acting like puppets, as if it had happened before—which it had. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

For three days he teased her as he used to do, and pulled her hair, and performed dirty Karaghiozis puppet shows. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They even got swallowed by a whale at the end, the puppet and his father. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Made fun of a particularly hilarious photo of me when I was three, which was fair because I look like a sock puppet in it! Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

She held a little wooden puppet about nine inches high. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The tools, the sharpening wheel, the wall full of puppets—all glowed warm and cheerful in the cones of amber light. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She released the other soldiers, and they fell back into their slumber, puppets with their strings cut. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“She turned you from half puppet to all puppet. I’m supposed to be glad about that?” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Refuse to be a puppet, refuse to be a clone. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, though, the controls still worked exactly the opposite of the way he expected them to, and the puppets always looked twitchy, as if they were being electrocuted. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

A few others were making ducky and doggie shadow puppets against the wall. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The tide was coming in, creeping nearer and nearer to them, as they sat in front of the puppets. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The maester's head jerked so vigorously at the end of his absurdly long neck that he looked half a puppet him-self. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The sessions consisted mainly of the North Vietnamese negotiator lecturing Kissinger about the need to replace the American “puppets” in South Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

There was a barf bag in the seat pocket in front of me, so I poked holes in it with a pen, put my fingers through them, and turned the bag into a puppet. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Finally the central chandelier flicked on and Father Mike, like a life-size puppet, sprang through the icon screen. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

No matter how hard I pulled, Ben’s hand just limply followed along, like the beer was the string and his hand the puppet. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

At that word, the old man nodded all at once, one nod, like a sad old puppet on strings. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

And she stood there like a puppet strung up by a puppet master who had gone off to some other hobby. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing much. You’re going to work some puppets for me. Marionettes. That sound too hard?” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“He looks like a puppet, don’t he?” he taunted as I tried to keep my temper in check. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crude setup seemed like a miracle: looking at the puppet ship, they could actually “see” the spaceship as it made its rounds. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry. I’ll be per-fectly safe. I’m not even a real soldier. Just one of Plutarch’s televised puppets,” I reassure her. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Kingshaw was rocking to and fro on the floor, holding his arms up over his head to keep out the dreadful caawing of the crows, and the sight of the puppet faces. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Dostum had fought the Soviets in the 1980s alongside the Mujahideen but had defected and joined Najibullah’s communist puppet regime after the Soviets had left. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Behind her, Lord Robert shrieked with delight as one of the puppet knights sliced the other in half, spilling a flood of red sawdust onto the terrace. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I watched Star Trek because you are always spouting off about it. The special effects are not that special. Kind of pathetic, actually. Like a first-grade puppet show.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Her parents were puppets, animated before her, and Pet was turning its head slowly, as if it could smell how quickly she was floating away. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Unable to leave my sky- sword to work itself, I would be watching the swords move like puppets when the genie yanked my hair back and held a dagger against my throat. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was Muriel’s creepy dancing puppet, only much bigger, and no longer guided by a rod in its back! Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

His pale hands shook, and the almanac he held looked like a puppet dancing without strings. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Yes. They thought he was a traitor to Congo and an ally of the West. That he’s a puppet to American mining companies.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t the first time I noticed this — how Renee kind of swished around in a cloud of perfume, and Annette just popped up like some spastic hand puppet. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1931, Japan tested the waters, invading the Chinese province of Manchuria and setting up a fiercely oppressive puppet state. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

She heard the overgrown puppet chasing her as she raced to the edge of the pond and hurled the wooden arms into the water. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

As soon as he’d put on Vola’s puppet show, just another hour from now, he would finally be free to start out again. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

On the subject of politics he offered an enigma, “Whether you use bullets or ballots, you’ve got to aim well; don’t strike at the puppet, strike at the puppeteer.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both my voice and body have a jerky, disjointed quality, like a puppet being manipulated by unseen forces. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I worked as a puppet trained to scrub and carry, curtsy and nod. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She uses buck-toothed puppets with big mouths, scary masks, makes the talk unserious and fun. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then as if a puppet master had rotated their heads at exactly the same moment, they faced each other and both started talking at once. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Mendigo sprang, desperately trying to block the dart, but Hugo had knocked the puppet too far away. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Hands on the waitress’s hips, he began to walk her like a puppet in front of him. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

His body jerked around like a rag puppet being dragged by a dog. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we buried my father, I watched her crumble, like a puppet with its strings cut, and there was nothing I could do. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

The people sit around the table as if suspended, like props in a play, or puppets on strings. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

One of the smaller girls did a kind of puppet dance while her fellow clowns laughed at her. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

You look like a puppet, when all the strings have gone loose.’ I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

A skirt with a beaded pattern of pomegranates, another that pulls up, like a curtain, to show a stage with jeweled mechanical puppets underneath. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She and Zach have been friends since grade five, when they were partnered up to make puppets of Lewis and Clark. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Why, sometimes I’ve felt I ought to jump down off that stand and get physical with some of those brainwashed white man’s tools, parrots, puppets. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They both sat down in unison like string puppets, the lady right on the edge of the chair so that her short feet could touch the floor. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Henson and his coworkers created puppets who could walk and talk with the adults of the show and could live alongside them on the street. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Spaniards counteracted this threat by inventing a pretext to seize the tlatoani in his own palace, making him first their captive and then their puppet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She’d teach chemistry with jazz hands and finger puppets if she thought that would inspire us. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Rafik, however, had opened every case he brought and was living in a heap of toys and treasures, a neon battery-powered yo-yo, a skunk puppet, and a harmonica. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

To judge from a video, this version lacked the charm provided by the puppets and Asian instruments and still dragged. Julius Caesar, young and gay: A groundbreaking 1971 opera gets revived for a new era 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z

The birds are brightly colored puppets that contribute to a sense of wonder as they sing and fly onstage. ‘Enchanted’ novel comes to life in a new musical 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z

I hate puppets – not many people know that – but I rather liked the Thatcher puppet as she was usually five minutes of a 28-minute show that we didn't have to worry about. Spitting Image creators remember Margaret Thatcher 2013-04-12T18:37:54Z

Studio Theatre has repeated those tasks three times so far, after each extension of its summer hit “Hand to God,” the Tony-nominated play about a troubled teenager and his profane hand puppet. These two artistic directors collaborate on the stage and in life 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

With its animated graphics and giant puppets, it set a standard for rock spectacles. A Word With: Roger Waters: Rogers Waters Talks About ‘The Wall’ and Pink Floyd 2012-07-05T21:11:55Z

There's a cafe above the bakery, a puppet show above the toyshop. The High Street by Alice Melvin - review 2012-06-24T08:00:00Z

In Antiviral, restaurants serve steaks cultivated from A-list muscle tissue – while his new psychological horror, Possessor, features assassins who inhabit people’s bodies via neural implants, then use them as puppets to carry out hits. Brandon Cronenberg on gougings, knifings and pokerings: 'CGI is too floaty and unreal' 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

Last but not least is Robert Lewis' puppet, which didn't take a bow but should have. Review: 'Dark Matters' at On the Boards is spellbinding dance 2011-02-18T17:57:04Z

On the plaza at Lincoln Center, the 12-foot-tall Little Amal puppet swayed gently to the music as an ensemble serenaded her from a balcony. Best Theater of 2022 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z

The opening show in this year's London International Mime festival, Teatro Corsario's puppet piece draws on the gothic horror stories of Edgar Allan Poe, including The Black Cat and The Murders in the Rue Morgue. Teatro Corsario: La Maldici?n de Poe ? review 2011-01-16T22:32:01Z

“I’ve always felt that I can say more with a puppet than I can myself,” said Piphus Peace, who for years worked as a real estate developer. ‘Sesame Street’ has its first Black female puppeteer 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z

The puppet, desperate to be a real boy, even explains this in song. ‘He’s All Impulse’: Making Disney’s ‘Pinocchio’ Naughty Onstage 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

Toreadors, Gypsies, dryads, kids pretending to be puppets, reams of classical dance and a standard story of two lovers outwitting the girl’s father — all in under three hours. Review: ‘Don Quixote’ Ballet Unites Lovers, Dryads and Toreadors 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

Shadow puppets are much cruder, much more over-the-top. Nia DaCosta on ‘Candyman’ and the Power of Terrifying Legends 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z

In the series, Miller voices the titular character, Gorburger, a monstrous puppet who stages a one-man alien invasion of the Japanese variety show Zoom Zoom Honshu. TJ Miller on his latest project: 'This is a truly apolitical talk show' 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

It was hysterical: all these people toiling over a group of tiny puppets. How we made The Sooty Show 2012-08-06T16:52:55Z

Op de Beeck’s “Staging Silence” creates bracingly arid landscapes of modernist design, street scapes and interiors, empty and hushed, but at the scale of a puppet theater. Exhibits at Hirshhorn, Kreeger museums offer a break from the bustle

Performers and producers of the series and their puppets wore single yellow feathers in memory of Caroll Spinney, who brought the popular characters Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch to life. Sesame Street receives Kennedy Center Honors to rare bipartisan cheer 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

“Can we get the puppet department up there?” A Broadway Superlative for All the Wrong Reasons 2011-03-13T23:28:26Z

Want to see an overweight bald man arguing with a Sandra Fluke puppet? CainTV: Wackier than Palin 2012-07-05T13:45:00Z

The films, particularly the stop-action puppet ballets, are incredibly lifelike and precise. Ghosts of ‘Nutcracker’ Past, Preserved on Film 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

It isn’t necessarily satisfying, on the level of human psychology, to read this patriarch as a puppet master, but it’s got potential as a parable. “Kidding,” Reviewed: Jim Carrey and Michel Gondry Reunite to Conjure Whimsy, Dread, and Puppets 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

Incorporating puppets into a dramatization of Jane Austen’s “Northanger Abbey” may seem a bit of a stretch. A puppet version of Jane Austen's 'Northanger Abbey' is modest success 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

Mel Gibson plays a depressed man who finds refuge with a glove puppet The actor made the film long before his recent sentencing to probation for domestic violence against his ex-girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva. 'I'm the Beaver' 2011-06-17T07:30:51Z

Patti Gilstrap designed the large, soft puppets that portray the chick and the other farm creatures, which include a wobbly calf, a strutting rooster, a friendly lamb and eager baby birds. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

"Sesame Street" previously added two bilingual Spanish-speaking actors and one bilingual puppet, Rosita. 'Sesame Street' adds third Spanish-speaking character 2013-05-10T18:20:43Z

Even being strung up on wires like puppets – gently poking fun at the idea of manufactured pop, see? This week's new tracks 2012-08-24T23:06:00Z

Best described as a mini cultural festival, it includes award-winning Romanian short films, aerial and shadow puppet performances, and interactive arts alongside the main musical events. Clubs picks of the week 2010-04-30T23:24:00Z

In his 1998 interview with The Times, he acknowledged that some of his work could be ephemeral, but he said that when he carved wooden masks for puppets, he was hoping for something more. Ralph Lee, Father of Puppets and a New York Parade, Dies at 87 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z

“Annebots” offers a young scientist working in a junkyard, “Creative Galaxy” is an “animated interactive art adventure,” and the puppets of “Teeny Tiny Dogs” demonstrate subtle lessons in “happiness” based on the latest research. Motherlode Blog: Amazon Introduces New Children’s Programs 2013-04-22T14:01:24Z

Something about puppets seems close to black magic, like using a Ouija board. “Hand to God”: “Sesame Street” Meets “The Exorcist” 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

These vegetable puppets, created by Radha Agrawal, can be seen in the Children’s Museum of Manhattan’s new health exhibition, “EatSleepPlay,” and on Sunday they will kick off a festival expanding on the show’s themes. Spare Times: For Children, for Feb. 17-23 2012-02-16T22:43:37Z

Each day at 2 p.m., the storyteller and songwriter Flor Bromley will entertain with a musical puppet performance on the theme of hibernation. Spare Times for Children for Jan. 24-30 2014-01-24T00:40:59Z

And that may provide enough of a reason to keep watching – the end of one of their puppet strings may connect to a way out of this murk after all. It's tough to explain what makes the aggravating "Morning Show" mess appealing 2023-10-21T04:00:00Z

“We wanted to have them sort of look like little puppets,” Mr. Warburton said. Naked No More: A TV Rodent Teaches Families About Tolerance 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z

When I was a really little kid, I loved kid shows that had puppet characters. Steve Carell and Robert Zemeckis on "Welcome to Marwen," process, pretension and pain 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

She helped bring these latest puppets into existence. The Hills Are Alive With the Sound of Julie Andrews and Henson Puppets 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

It will include live bands, carnival games, face painting, T-shirt designing and, of course, puppet and mask making from Puppetry Arts, which presents free puppetry workshops and performances in communities and public schools. Spare Times for Children for April 26-May 2 2013-04-25T22:27:06Z

This idea that we are just puppets is clearly a mistake. ‘Westworld’ and ‘Devs’ Asked Big Questions. A Physicist Responds. 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

Star of a new half-hour PBS Kids series that bears her name, Donkey Hodie may be the first punk-style puppet to hit public television. ‘Donkey Hodie’ Adds a Fresh Face to Fred Rogers’s World. And a Mohawk. 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z

Hand-held shadow puppets loom large against bedsheets, and flashlights and illuminated bottles become emblems of otherworldly luminousness. ‘The Old Man and the Old Moon,’ From PigPen Theater 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

Yet the production, with costumes by Ms. Taymor, is filled with her signature magical puppets and colorful effects. Review: ‘The Magic Flute,’ Trimmed for Families at the Met Opera 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

There were no live performances of her immersive puppet play, no passers-by admitted between shows to see her art installation: an intricate replica of a grocery store, made from plastic waste. Best Theater of 2020 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z

At least two characters have doberman hand puppets. In search of David Foster Wallace's Pale King 2011-04-08T09:17:13Z

Physically, the puppet is a eerie apparition, with a ghoulish white mask and black-rimmed eyes under a tightly drawn dark hood. Review: ‘Pinocchio,’ the Opera, Is a Hit For a Renovated Theater 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

But its excesses lend themselves to a comic shellacking, and the Puppet Shakespeare Players have a semi-improvised field day with a winning cast of humans and puppets of many sizes. Theater Listings for Aug. 15-21 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

Skipitares’s singular approach — let’s call it docu-activist puppet theater, a term as unwieldy as her shows — may frustrate audiences who prefer a bit more polish. ‘The Transfiguration of Benjamin Banneker’ Review: An Unwieldy Ride 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z

Told with puppets, it’s a great way to introduce children as young as 3 to the visual treats of the theater. 5 Shows to See in New York When You Only Have an Hour 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

It’s got magic tricks, puppets, pyrotechnics, and big dance numbers, too, and all that requires extraordinary precision to keep everything on track. ‘Beetlejuice’ stars reveal the backstage secrets on Broadway 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

One particularly inventive example: From its warehouse home in Chicago, Manual Cinema will livestream an original adaptation featuring shadow puppets and murder hornets and a new character, the contrarian Aunt Trudy. Bah, Pandemic! How Theaters Are Saving ‘A Christmas Carol’ 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z

Now in previews at the St. James Theater, where it opens on July 10, this “Into the Woods” presents Milky White as a puppet who breathes, coughs, moos and mourns — which works enchantingly. She’ll Have You at Moo: Milky White and the Power of Puppetry 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z

No effort was made to refurbish the Hitler puppet or any of the heads; they are being presented the way Frank found them. The Saga of a World War II Ancestor of Miss Piggy, Bert and Yoda 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

A 20-minute meditation on growth, death and rebirth, it mixes box puppets, shadow play, live film and archival footage into a gorgeous mise-en-scène that feels theatrical in its purposefully homemade aesthetic. The (Virtual) Theatrical Fringe Moves Front and Center 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z

With commissions thin on the ground Anderson and his team were eager to produce their first puppet show The Adventures Of Twizzle. Thunderbirds creator dies aged 83 2012-12-26T17:06:25Z

You don't have to be a homophobe to find it kind of sweet that most "Sesame Street" puppets are asexual and romantically unattached. Why Bert and Ernie shouldn't get married 2011-08-10T22:20:00Z

The puppets of “War Horse” in the play during its run at the New London Theater. ArtsBeat: 'War Horse' Corrals Its American Cast 2010-12-20T19:15:23Z

Another fiction surrounding this conductor is that his singers are little more than puppets who execute his will. ?Attila? and Muti in Debuts at the Met 2010-02-19T18:03:00Z

The family returned to Antwerp after the war and dug up the puppet. The Saga of a World War II Ancestor of Miss Piggy, Bert and Yoda 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

Fellow guests appear to be mere puppets with strings that shine like diamonds. The Hard Sell: Lancôme 2012-10-05T23:05:15Z

Add to the mix giant puppets, ground-breaking theatre, music and dance for a staggering array of attractions. Shining sun welcomes wacky and wonderful to Edinburgh Fringe 2013-08-02T15:49:13Z

Difficult to choose one favourite, but I loved Stewart Riddick's bird's-eye perspective of a puppet on the Royal Mile, and Piglicker sums up the festival more wittily than a thousand standup comedians. Edinburgh festival: week two roundup 2011-08-22T15:29:22Z

Mr. Boyer plays Jason, a troubled Texas teenager who discovers that his hand puppet is possessed by evil. ArtsBeat: In Performance: Steven Boyer (and Tyrone) of ‘Hand to God’ 2014-03-18T12:00:28Z

Sweaty and matted with stage blood, I think that particular puppet and I played the most performances together. Steven Boyer Puts Down the Sock Puppet and Picks Up His Life 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

Still, what would you cut: The demonic horse puppet that clamps itself to its owner’s arm and threatens to eat his face? Jeff VanderMeer’s Young Adult Novel Is a Madcap Magical Mash-Up 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

Yoda featured in all three of the prequel movies, though in the last two he was depicted in CGI rather than in original puppet mode, much to the chagrin of some older fans. Yoda not far, soon you will be with him – when his own Star Wars movie he has 2013-02-05T13:08:23Z

Mr. Lee’s puppets were generally carefully made works of craftsmanship that bordered on art. Ralph Lee, Father of Puppets and a New York Parade, Dies at 87 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z

We, the savvy spectators, know that the puppet isn’t what it pretends to be. She’ll Have You at Moo: Milky White and the Power of Puppetry 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z

Scenes enacted in a puppet theater on the stage are also projected onto large screens in those works, and that fascination explains the name of their production company, Giants Are Small. Their Next Big Thing Is Actually Small 2013-09-04T19:03:00Z

FRI Create your own puppet and learn how to get it moving, for families with kids ages 5 and older, 6 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2014-03-19T16:30:03Z

A squeaking mouse puppet plays a not insignificant supporting role, for instance, as does music from “Carmen” that seems unsuited to the restrained tenor of both the writing and the characters. Theater Review: ‘In Paris’ Stars Mikhail Baryshnikov 2012-08-03T22:57:36Z

Oz was startled when he came across the puppet years ago in the attic of his family home in Oakland — “I thought, ‘Oh My God.’” The Saga of a World War II Ancestor of Miss Piggy, Bert and Yoda 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

Was the idea that you needed the puppets to stand-in for actors, and then it would all be stitched together digitally later? How ‘I’m a Virgo’ Pulled Off Old-School Movie Magic 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

“Dogs do everything but use words to tell you what they’re feeling. If you can convey the same thing through a puppet or your body, you’re doing the right thing.” When art doesn’t pay the bills, an actor needs a good supporting role 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

His previous insights into art and life have taken the form of a puppet conference where Fozzy Bear examines his relationship with television, and a film of child actors as art world luminaries. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-04-16T23:09:00Z

Ardolino had the deepest swing and hardest backbeat on earth, and regularly interacted onstage with a puppet of himself, “Little Tommy.” Why NRBQ never really needed a hit record to measure its success 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

Sok Eysan, a spokesman for the ruling Cambodian People’s Party, welcomed the musical initiative as a positive sign - while also condemning the Trump administration’s “support of its puppet, the opposition party”. U.S. turns to music in bid to woo Cambodians 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

Young people can make confetti poppers, wearable zodiac charms and dragon puppets. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z

This is the British-based sister company to the famed South African company behind the puppets that are such an integral part of the National theatre's international hit War Horse. Crow – review 2012-06-25T17:22:12Z

Gibson stars as a troubled man who works through his depression by communicating with people through a beaver hand puppet. Gibson's new film 'The Beaver' moves to May 6 2011-02-08T18:17:17Z

He went on: “Mike Pence gets booed more then kids boo the witch in a puppet show.” Late-night TV hosts on Trump's golf habit: 'He's the Tiger Woods of hypocrisy' 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z

And visitors can trace Henson’s career from his 1950s Washington television puppet series “Sam and Friends” to the making of films like “The Muppet Movie” and “Labyrinth.” ArtsBeat: Celebrational, Muppetational Jim Henson Show Coming to Museum of Moving Image 2011-04-21T18:53:32Z

The words “puppet” and “hacker” are nowhere to be found in Randy Newman’s “Putin.” The Playlist: David Bowie’s Unreleased Songs and a ‘Putin’ Satire 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z

"The Importance of Being 'Jersey Shore'" The world is sad, Oscar Wilde said, because a puppet was once melancholy. "The Importance of Being 'Jersey Shore'" 2011-04-26T01:01:00Z

But despite that and the ludicrousness of the puppet prop, The Beaver is serious about portraying mental illness. The Beaver: Can You Forgive Him? 2011-05-04T18:10:00Z

All the puppets have characters, but sometimes you get a doll and it just doesn't quite work out. Watch my lips 2010-05-07T23:06:00Z

French animator Michel Ocelot has mastered his signature "shadow puppet" style in this visually dazzling series of six fairy tales, each featuring a young hero who must pass crucial tests to achieve an ultimate goal. Arts and entertainment highlights for the week beginning Nov. 18, 2012 2012-11-16T00:17:04Z

The performers each manipulate multiple puppet characters, all in the cause of good old demented fun. Bumbershoot preview: Theater performances 2011-09-01T21:07:40Z

Schilling: I actually learn something when I watch Top Chef and the rest of these shows make me want to hollow out my TV and perform puppet shows through the frame to amuse myself. Who will win Emmys on Sunday? Our critics discuss – part two 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

Mr. Kentridge’s use of a puppet seems like a solution in search of a problem. Review: The Searing Beauty of Kentridge’s ‘Wozzeck’ at the Met 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z

In one of the best scenes, Oswald plays a chess game using a set in which all the figures are puppets. Review: ‘Lee Harvey Oswald,’ an American Assassin in Puppet Form 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

“I wonder how a huge puppet of such a person would be greeted.” Four Months, 5,000 Miles: A Refugee Puppet Looks for Home 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

The goat narrator is actually a puppet, but there are human characters, too. Get past the goat: Playwright Glen Berger talks about 'Glowworm' in Seattle 2011-04-07T19:30:08Z

And increasingly, it’s becoming part of works that would never be described as mere puppet shows. Colossal puppets help create a monumental ‘Tempest’ by the Shakespeare Theatre Co. 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

For example, the huge serpent pursuing the panicked Prince Tamino in the opening scene is here just a row of 10 dancers holding tall sticks, each with a segment of the long puppet monster. Music Review: Mozart for the Little Ones, Where the Special Effects Are Always 3-D 2010-12-22T15:42:41Z

At the end, images from the first video reappear — the puppet and the world globe — both burning. ArtsBeat: After a Flap, a Work Draws Attention 2010-12-09T20:09:00Z

Was it Mel who made those terrible phone calls, or was it the puppet? The role Mel Gibson was born to play 2011-05-04T20:01:00Z

There you’ll find some 300 artifacts, objects and ephemera, including sketches, scripts, photographs and costumes, as well as 47 puppets and examples of Henson’s little-known forays into experimental film. Experience the Muppets and More at the Museum of the Moving Image 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z

Take advantage of the wealth of evening entertainment: concerts, movies, puppet shows and folk dancing. Going solo? How to have fun in Europe 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

In the work’s most mesmerizing moment, he appears as a puppet, a modern-day Pinocchio in gold paillettes, his rigid joints slowly warming into human motion. Framing a difficult past with sequins and hip-hop

The weekend's entertainment includes music on the Main Stage, a concert and dance with Tony La Stella & the Goombas on Saturday evening and puppet shows by the Carter Family Marionettes. Salve! It's time for the 25th annual Italian Festival 2012-09-26T21:46:04Z

Mixing puppets, antique dolls, stop-action animation, live acting with real people and haunting classical music, their movies sacrifice narrative lucidity for the associative logic of dreaming. The Week Ahead: Aug. 5 — Aug. 11 2012-08-03T18:25:27Z

The actors in this puppet musical will probably use both terms, as Teatro SEA, the producing organization, specializes in bilingual stagings of Latino theater for children. Events for Children in NYC This Week 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

There is always a sense that they are also the puppets' alter egos. Or You Could Kiss Me ? review 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z

But Jason’s roiling id has discovered a convenient escape from the prison of the subconscious: the brown sock puppet on his agile left hand. Theater Review: ?Hand to God,? by Robert Askins, at Ensemble Studio Theater 2011-11-12T00:45:29Z

But it never grew more clever than when Guzmán Rosado controlled and conducted the cast’s every move as if dancers were his puppets. BodyTraffic brings a light touch — perhaps too light — to the Broad Stage 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

When David Ricardo-Pearce's Theseus points a finger at the tiny puppet Hermia, it magnifies the sense of her powerlessness in the face of Athenian law. A Midsummer Night's Dream - review 2013-03-08T16:04:46Z

Assisted flying of a different kind is at the heart of a collaboration between Islington-based puppet company Little Angel and Cornwall-based . Fuerzabruta; A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings – review 2013-01-06T00:08:13Z

And yet you really do not expect to hear a puppet’s neck crack. Puppetry So Lifelike, Even Their Deaths Look Real 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z

Tsikurishvili is as mesmerizing as ever, even if he’s just executing a bit of pantomime as a puppet master jerking invisible ropes that yank his subjects into place. ‘Dr. Moreau’ delivers the blood, but not so much guts, at Synetic

All four were created at the Pointless studio in Petworth, where the troupe is constructing costumes and puppets for a holiday show. A surprise after the final performance of ‘Fetch Clay, Make Man’ at Round House

The story is stripped down and basic: "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" as an adult comedy with puppets instead of cartoons. “The Happytime Murders”: A sad excuse for grown-up comedy 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

He appears as a puppet of Hendrix, yet at the same time transforming every familiar guitar lick, every vocal inflection so that we no longer know where anything's going. The incomparable political art of Congolese choreographer Faustin Linyekula 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

In these early scenes depicting Shun-kin’s youth, the character is portrayed by a puppet, manipulated with marvelous delicacy by two performers in the bunraku style. Theater Review: ‘Shun-kin,’ Japanese Intrigue, at Lincoln Center Festival 2013-07-10T21:58:34Z

Of all the puppet plays, the early buzz seems strongest for “Jerk,” a joint presentation of Under the Radar and Coil that the writer Dennis Cooper has developed with European collaborators. 2010-01-08T03:16:00Z

Donald T. Sanders, the director, interleaves Hans’s monologues and the puppet interludes with music, mostly from Henry Purcell and Benjamin Britten, neither an Andersen contemporary. Review: In ‘Hans Christian Andersen: Tales Real and Imagined,’ No Happily Ever After 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z

Each has a more or less allegorical function: The narrator is the puppet master, while the central consciousnesses are those of his creations, mainly Alain, but barely differentiated, who look up to this “master.” ‘The Festival of Insignificance,’ by Milan Kundera 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

There's also Tom Curry, the father of Aquaman in the Marvel film of the same name, and The Captain in the British rendition of the children's musical puppet television series "Fraggle Rock." The evolution of lighthouse keepers, the isolating yet romantic profession 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z

Against the unfolding crackdown on the protest movement, many opposition leaders declined even to meet McFaul for fear of being demonized as puppets of the United States State Department. Does Vladimir Putin Speak for the Russian People? 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

He sometimes appears onstage as a puppet skull – a chilling embodiment of the band's album art – but has taken many varying forms. Iron Maiden breach the Final Frontier 2010-07-21T13:52:00Z

Cape Town's 30-year-old Handspring Puppet Company, which created the life-size and lifelike horse puppets for "War Horse," was named a special Tony award winner Tuesday. South African puppeteers win Tony 2011-05-03T17:05:11Z

Not fate as some sort of ordained puppet master, rather a consequence of millions of micro-decisions happening simultaneously, drawing people towards each other. Simon Pegg: 'I measure life by my feelings for Star Wars' 2010-10-16T23:05:00Z

After the show, children can make their own puppets and enjoy a Holi frolic. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

Long ago the islanders considered puppets to be spiritual beings with magic powers to vanquish bad fortune. Distinguished Japanese puppet theater to visit Seattle 2013-08-14T19:32:33Z

Photograph: Gemma Mount My grandad bought me a puppet when I was eight. Watch my lips 2010-05-07T23:06:00Z

The staging, by contrast, directed by Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris, is humble and human, with ancient folk songs and the exquisite, handcrafted puppets created by the South African theater company Handspring. ‘War Horse’ Closes in Britain, but Its Influence Gallops On 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

But, although puppets of many sizes and shapes figure in a big way, courtesy of South Africa's endlessly inventive Handspring company, it's a very different beast from that international hit. A Midsummer Night's Dream - review 2013-03-08T16:04:46Z

When our son turned 6, my husband and I bought him a puppet theater and a chest of dress-up clothes because he liked to put on plays. From He to She in First Grade 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

The trouble is, very few ventriloquists put theatrics and character into their puppets. Watch my lips: the art of ventriloquism deserves centre stage 2010-08-27T10:02:00Z

Villagers in red shirts and black waistcoats, and wearing bowler hats adorned with lace, flowers and feathers, lead a donkey carrying a puppet up a hill. Remote Croatian island marks victory over pirates with Carnival cheer 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z

Jenny is obsessed with dolls, and a sort of role-reversal is suggested as Elias threatens one of them: Are we all puppets in the universe? Review | ‘The Flick’ playwright Annie Baker goes long again in the three-hour ‘John’ 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

Gathered on fluffy mats surrounding the dancers, little spectators will first experience summer in the form of puppets, including illuminated fireflies and soft caterpillars. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z

But he calmed down when he saw the result: life-size puppets that move, whinny, startle and nuzzle so much like real horses, they seem to be fully realized characters. An Undaunted Author Muses on His Unlikely Hit 2011-04-11T12:25:23Z

We used to think of puppets as entertainment for kids, but that's no longer the case. Revenge of the Muppets 2012-02-12T20:00:19Z

The mustache, the hair and the eyebrows are painted black; Isidore carved the mustache so that it protrudes from the puppet. The Saga of a World War II Ancestor of Miss Piggy, Bert and Yoda 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

And there is genuine wit and style in the evocation of a redemptive fairytale princess through a floating head, puppet hands and red slippers. I Was a Rat! – review 2013-02-17T13:49:00Z

“Big ones, you hold them on two long high sticks, or I did hand puppets.” Esther Perel: 'Fix the sex and your relationship will transform' 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z

He volunteered to make a replacement when the show was dissatisfied with a puppet created by a professional. Allegretti, 'Captain Kangaroo' character, dies 2013-08-07T14:47:34Z

The puppet is a parasite in a bow tie, leeching personality and, if the films are to be believed, sanity from its master. Clip Joint: ventriloquists 2010-09-01T17:06:00Z

Up until that point, Ms. Petersen and her puppet perform the role pretty much as a unit, with the soprano often carrying and manipulating the puppet while she sings. It’s ‘Salome.’ But With Puppets. 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

These categories included bishops, colorful church outfits and decorations, popular entertainment on the Sabbath, profane theater, images of all kinds, toys and, of course, puppet shows. Ben Jonson, like Charb of Charlie Hebdo, sought to reduce zealots 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

Here’s what we learned about the painstaking creation of “Isle” based on interviews with the 48-year-old director, head of puppets Andy Gent and animation director Mark Waring. In ‘Isle of Dogs,’ Wes Anderson Applied Puppet Lessons From ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z

In one of the most dynamic runway shows last fall, Thom Browne ended his Paris presentation with a model dressed in white guiding an enormous unicorn puppet. Perspective | A normal person’s guide to understanding a Fashion Week runway show 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

Maria sings "The Lonely Goatherd" during the thunderstorm instead — without the puppet show I understood as my due. 'The Sound of Music' at the Ahmanson is fresh and lively 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

Their hands might be turned into puppets or maybe part of their face or leg are painted as props for each scene. 8 ways to do Improv Fest 2011-04-21T18:33:00Z

This production encompassed visits to homes, a parade with a puppet camel and a duel between one generation and another outside the Coal Exchange. De Gabay – review 2013-03-04T12:41:12Z

After the show he passes around his inventive puppets as he answers questions and discusses his and Ms. Philippi’s inspirations. Spare Times for Children for June 21-27 2013-06-20T23:01:28Z

Mr. Minghella’s use of a puppet to represent Butterfly’s son provoked controversy, and I had mixed feelings myself. Music Review: From Wily House Cat to Lord of the Manor 2010-10-03T22:17:00Z

Children are not left out, with the martyrs' story told by finger puppets in part of a packed programme that also has free running, circus skills and five-a-side football. This week's new events 2011-07-08T23:09:39Z

The miniature cosmos created by Kyujin Lee, whose “Replay and Reshuffle” is also at the McLean center, draws from fairy tales and puppet shows. Review | In the galleries: An artist conjures images from oceans to a micro view of nature 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

“He came up and said, ‘$1.50 is for your puppet, and the rest of it’s for you, since he was funnier,’ ” Mr. Petersen later recalled. Otto Petersen, the Voice of Vulgarity, Dies at 53 2014-04-16T01:12:14Z

On Friday, Harvey is premiering “The Famous Five” at Theater Clwyd, a new musical based on a series of children’s books by the English author Enid Blyton that features a puppet dog. Royal Shakespeare Company Names Two Directors for Top Job 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z

Later that day, Mr. Suskind picks up a puppet of Iago, the parrot sidekick in Disney’s animated “Aladdin.” ‘Life, Animated,’ by Ron Suskind 2014-05-21T04:00:00Z

“I just felt like a puppet that people could just use how they wanted.” How 'Paper Towns' Could Turn Cara Delevingne Into a Movie Star 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

What about those “waving their arms” tube puppets that used-car dealers love? 9 Ways Outdoor Dining Will Change New York 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z

Drawing on the book “Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street,” by Michael Davis, it uses file footage and new interviews to detail the early years of a puppet revolution. ‘Sesame Street’ Was Always Political 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z

I caught a couple hours of him back in the 1990s when I used to have a TV and he was messing around with a hand puppet of a cigar-chomping pit bull. The Most Riveting Host in Late Night (and the Most Overlooked) 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z

Spinney grew up in Acton, Massachusetts, and developed his interest in puppets as a child. Puppeteer who performed Sesame Street's Big Bird, Oscar, dies at 85 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z

Productions include a “Richard III” staged by the celebrated German director Thomas Ostermeier, featuring puppets and a Richard clad in visible padding, and a new version of “King Lear” directed by Mr. Py. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

During one taping, a panel at the left breast of his prop cardigan swings opens to reveal a heart-shaped puppet called Thump Thump, and Mr. Pickles rips him out from the abdominal aorta. “Kidding,” Reviewed: Jim Carrey and Michel Gondry Reunite to Conjure Whimsy, Dread, and Puppets 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

Percy, a porcupine puppet of prodigious proportions, emerged from her giant stump home for an audience of schoolchildren and media members at a Los Angeles park on Tuesday. Quills and thrills as prodigious porcupine puppet unveiled 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

“It’s the biggest puppet production ever mounted,” Henson said. ‘The Dark Crystal’ Returns on an Even Grander Scale 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

The singer was to be essentially a puppet maneuvered by an all-female backing group. Cherry Glazerr, a fast-rising rock trio, isn't that kind of cute 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

After a 1971 dinner party, Golding destroyed a puppet of Bob Dylan that belonged to his host, the writer Andrew Sinclair. Books of The Times: ?William Golding,? the Lighter Side, by John Carey 2010-07-06T23:03:00Z

Performing with a full band and their signature puppets, the Pop Ups will offer songs about time, space and discovery. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

Dancers, puppets and singers thread their way through the maelstrom of his pieces. Artist William Kentridge on stage in South Africa 2011-09-17T12:29:12Z

And then you start to feel like a puppet. Jennifer Lawrence Has No Appetite for Playing Fame Games 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

His background is, among other things, that of a puppeteer and a puppet builder. Music: Working With Whimsy Fit for the Philharmonic 2011-06-20T22:15:29Z

The puppet’s integration into a group of actual mountain gorillas goes smoothly — until one of the real gorillas knocks it over. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Normal People’ and a Virtual Play 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z

They will join the troupe’s fuzzy, friendly, oversize puppets in an exploration of Jewish culture, past and present, accompanied by original and traditional music. Spare Times for Children for Aug. 10-16 2012-08-10T04:40:09Z

As for his part, Mercader says, “I was a cynic,” he says, “a puppet, a wretch.” Books of The Times: ‘The Man Who Loved Dogs’ Centers on Trotsky 2014-01-21T22:09:20Z

He laments the advantage that European puppet artists have in the sheer opportunities for their productions to be staged. Give Them a Hand: Puppet Artists Are Having a Moment 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

Before it begins children will make puppets of their own to use during the performance. Spare Times for Children for Aug. 10-16 2012-08-10T04:40:09Z

The puppet is used in a satirical show that pokes fun at major news stories. Egypt TV channel caters to fully veiled women 2012-07-24T18:31:11Z

With two partners, he runs The Puppet Kitchen in the East Village, which has built puppets for the Disney Channel, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines, the Public Theater and the noted puppeteer Basil Twist. In New York, a Business Course Geared to Artists 2010-06-18T22:48:00Z

From this precarious world, puppets will emerge, in perhaps unexpected ways. Puppets in Dreamland from the man behind War Horse 2012-10-07T18:04:51Z

As Stewart called on CNN to do their job, he reminded the “Crossfire” hosts that the show that led into his on Comedy Central was “puppets making phone calls.” “The Daily Show” is dead to me: Trevor Noah will never, ever be good at his job — also, thanks a lot for Donald Trump 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

The Puppets in Prague students would be debuting their production of “The Magnificent Seven” here as one of the two to three puppet shows scheduled every day. The 52 Places Traveler: Finding the Real Prague 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

If he can’t have best actor, then he should surely take the award for most devastating and fiercely committed singing performance opposite a puppet baby. Oscar Predictions: Will ‘Power of the Dog’ reign supreme? 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

The writers – the puppet masters – are less equivocal though. The not-bleeding-likely lads 2011-07-14T20:19:01Z

I hadn’t ever worked with puppets before, so every day was a new adventure. How ‘I’m a Virgo’ Pulled Off Old-School Movie Magic 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

I was so blown away by Deet as a puppet and her performance before I even recorded a single sentence. After ‘Game of Thrones,’ Nathalie Emmanuel Is Ready to Take the Lead 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

SUN Learn foundations of stage puppetry — focus, physical commitment and basic puppet operation, hands-on time with professional puppets, simple practice puppet to take home, 1 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

This year the festival will add extra puppet shows and children’s theater, hoping to attract more families. Prague Hospital Is Unusual Venue for Festival 2010-05-25T10:00:00Z

The piece interprets the works loosely: Ms. Blanchett appears as a factory worker in one clip, and with a small puppet recreation of herself in another. Cate Blanchett in Sydney and Peaches in Geneva: Global Arts Guide 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

"The result was so professional, and the puppet and the student who voiced the puppet were one of the best narrators we've ever had." UConn's top puppetry program collaborates with Boston Pops 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

When it comes to "Sesame Street" characters, there is one sacrosanct rule — aside from right handing, no puppet will have more than one puppeteer. 15 secrets of "Sesame Street" puppeteers 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

But like everyone else, she fell silent when a dapper, portly puppet suddenly loomed over an upstage wall of screens. Review: A Harrowing Puppet Show, ‘Demolishing Everything With Amazing Speed’ 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z

To cover his tracks, Palmer acts as puppet master to the U.S. secretary of health and human services, who he's groomed and mentored. 'The Strain': Extermination is on tap in 'It's not for everybody' 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z

Both albums feature him delivering self-actualization spiels in a husky come-hither voice, interspersed with Jones’s ontological banter with a nearly life-size puppet, outfitted in “Super Fly” threads, named T. J. Hustler. Think Tim Jones’s Cosmic R&B Is Weird? Wait Until You Meet His Dummy 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z

The puppets are treated as second-class citizens, tolerated for their entertainment value but not fully respected. Review: ‘The Happytime Murders’ Has Puppets as Nasty as the Rest of Us 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

This “puppet theater response” to Eugene Ionesco’s absurdist play is by turns potent, perplexing, inspiring and weird. A Puppet Theater Response to Ionesco in ‘The Chairs’ 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

An outsize puppet monster with glowing red eyes and devouring paws appears. 'Ramayana' at ACT: vivid dramatization of the Hindu epic 2012-10-20T01:32:07Z

Following their collaboration on the world-beating War Horse, director Tom Morris and South African puppet company Handspring reunite to take on Shakespeare's tale of magic and misadventure. 2013 theatre preview: Helen Mirren gets another crack at the Queen and Peter Pan meets Alice in Wonderland 2012-12-30T19:30:01Z

Anderson's most notable production was 1965 series "Thunderbirds," featuring marionette puppets, about a secret organization that performs rescue missions using high-tech tools and vehicles, with characters such as ex-astronaut Jeff Tracy and agent Lady Penelope. 'Thunderbirds' creator Gerry Anderson dies 2012-12-26T22:59:14Z

Using a puppet, “The Late Show” imagined how contract negotiations might go with a cantankerous Kermit. ‘Let Obamacare Fail’? Fallon Says Democrats Are Trying That With Trump 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

Then they mess around behind the screen making shadow puppets and maniacally laughing before taking over the projector. Terror often disrupts movies within movies 2012-07-25T11:46:13Z

Or You Could Kiss Me features near lifesize wooden puppets operated by black-suited figures. Review 2010-10-05T23:41:00Z

They are simply extraordinary creations, not the least because they eschew the internally static identity of the interior components of most big-scale puppets. Broadway review: Extraordinary puppets make heart of 'War Horse' beat 2011-04-15T00:43:39Z

Teaching artists met each week with students, showing them how to make shadow puppets, then coaching them to deploy the puppets in a poetry performance for the class. Music Center cuts back its arts education at schools 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z

"Even though these were really dolls, I call them puppets because they were actors within the books," Kawamoto said. Kihachiro Kawamoto obituary 2010-09-05T16:44:00Z

"If you put a puppet on the stage and the audience wants to hear the story and follow the story, the audience will imagine the puppet is alive." 'Warhorse' director brings puppets to Spoleto 2013-06-01T14:35:08Z

He was portraying the magician who controls the puppets that are the story’s main characters. Critic’s Notebook: Alan Gilbert Shapes a Legacy of Change at the Philharmonic 2013-07-15T20:46:01Z

The six black-clad puppeteers are skillful, but it’s a shame that the puppets’ voices are recorded rather than live. Review: ‘Ramona,’ a Puppet Tale About Trains in Love 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

The puppets and the settings are manipulated by the performers in front of video cameras while at the same time you see the projected image up on a massive screen. Something Very Far Away – review 2012-06-10T14:11:57Z

But just as Tyrone gives Jason an opportunity to misbehave, the puppet has also provided an outlet for Mr. Boyer’s irrepressible comic urges too. Arts & Leisure: Steven Boyer Unleashes His Inner Demon in ?Hand to God? 2011-12-04T03:30:05Z

Parading down the middle of West 63rd Street last Saturday afternoon, we were following a giant puppet — a whole crowd of us, trekking along behind Little Amal. Is Little Amal Getting Lost in New York? 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

The puppet show brought them to the attention of Pat Robertson, a recent seminary graduate who had just launched a tiny Christian television station in Portsmouth, Virginia. Underneath all the makeup, who was the real Tammy Faye? 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z

Adult Swim: Robot Chicken The US Adult Swim strand has done admirable work in weirding people out with their sweary puppet and cartoon shows. BBC Proms 2010-07-24T05:45:00Z

Poorly paid and ill-disciplined conscripts in the Chinese army sometimes behaved badly towards the civilian population, as did Chinese puppet troops under Japanese direction. China's War With Japan by Rana Mitter – review 2013-06-30T13:00:01Z

In key scenes, the velociraptor Blue is essentially an elaborate puppet. In ‘Jurassic World,’ Old-School Effects Make a Comeback 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

So the puppets were built based on these originals, and referencing them? "Dark Crystal" director on working puppet magic: "You have to imagine bringing life to everything" 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z

But we look right past the artifice and invest in the puppet. She’ll Have You at Moo: Milky White and the Power of Puppetry 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z

You don't rehearse puppets, you rehearse with the puppeteers. The gay puppet stars of Or You Could Kiss Me 2010-10-03T20:59:00Z

All are rod puppets, which the troupe will demonstrate after the show. Spare Times for Children for June 12-18 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

During the 1950s, she toured with a puppet theater, wrote musical comedies for television and worked as an actress and stage manager. Lina Wertmüller, Italian Director of Provocative Films, Dies at 93 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

The group uses projectors, puppets and silhouettes to tell stories, which they often write themselves. What's on This Week Around the World 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

The puppet and his crew went through security, filmed "for two days in congressional offices" and were even "invited into the offices of the Congress people they were interviewing." Colbert on "shameful" Fox News coverage that painted dog puppet act in the Capitol as "insurrection 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z

Ada/Ava An elderly woman mourns the loss of her twin in this multimedia show that features actors, puppets, projected imagery and live music; for ages 12 and up; part of the Off Center Festival. L.A. theater openings, Jan. 17-24: Segerstrom's Off Center Festival and more 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

It only went up on the Friedrichsplatz, the show’s hub, at the end of the preview, during which Taring Padi had charmed visitors with hundreds of cardboard puppets in the same square and around town. Documenta Was a Whole Vibe. Then a Scandal Killed the Buzz. 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

There are rowdy crowds, street hawkers, drunken revelers and puppet shows. Music Review: ‘A Dancer’s Dream’ Includes Orchestra in Stravinsky Ballets 2013-06-28T21:18:49Z

She said she no longer needs to carry the puppet. Pathological Theater, a Salve to Soothe Minds 2010-06-05T02:05:00Z

In 1981, he founded a puppet theater in Tbilisi and was best known internationally for its productions. Georgian director, screenwriter Gabriadze dies at 84 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z

The first few episodes also are too slow in capitalizing on Catherine Keener’s charisma; she plays Deirdre, the show’s head puppet maker in the midst of her own personal crisis, slowly boiling over at home. Smart Watch: “The Deuce” returns with more strut in its street tales 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z

If you are the town of Stockton in north-east England, then a puppet giant and a huge puppet eagle will do. Bringing a giant puppet eagle to life 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z

That Lucky talks — lovingly, directly and frequently about bacon — is a bit of absurdity you easily accept within the conventions of puppet drama. Three Dramas Explore the Margins of the Digital Form 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

This week’s performer is Arm of the Sea Theater, with giant puppets telling a music-filled tale of a grandfather river who must be nursed back to health. Spare Times for Children for July 19-25 2013-07-18T22:28:52Z

The film stars comedian Melissa McCarthy as a detective who is tasked with tracking down a serial killer in a world in which puppets and humans coexist. Sesame Street creators sue over The Happytime Murders puppet film 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z

Eternally patient and silent, these looming claymen have a greater dignity than sinister, prattling living dolls or self-moving puppets. Why golems are precious 2010-08-27T08:56:00Z

Like Mr. Ferguson the host of “Arthur” opened his show with a monologue delivered inches from the camera, and he used hand puppets in his routine. Sincerest Form of Flattery: Some Joke! 2010-12-12T23:25:00Z

That prototype presentation in Florida was in late 1995; by late 1996, there was a presentation with actors, masks and puppets in New York. How ‘The Lion King’ Got to Broadway and Ruled for 25 Years (So Far) 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z

Not to mention the cyclone of stage activity in “Life of Pi,” which at times seemed like a ballet with puppets. For Broadway Dance, High Kicks and Low Comedy in a Season of Change 2023-05-10T04:00:00Z

Matt and I were in Scott’s office, and he said, “Oh, you know there’s these guys doing a puppet thing on Broadway.” ArtsBeat: Holy Terrors: A Conversation With the Creators of 'The Book of Mormon' 2011-02-16T16:23:16Z

The fights are dramatized in a puppet show, an example of the kind of low-tech ingenuity perfectly fit for the Fringe. Theater: A Fringe Too Tame? Too Bad 2010-08-23T22:21:00Z

You can look at footage of him mesmerizing classrooms full of kids with a fuzzy puppet and see the gentleness there, but you'd be blind to miss the focused dignity he affords to every child. Mister Rogers was actually a badass: New film “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” shows his tough side 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

Which in these days of CGI and 3D is quite a lot to ask of a mere puppet. King Kong stomps on to stage in Melbourne 2013-05-27T04:32:00Z

To her children’s delight, Haze can wobble her skin and make it talk like a puppet. ‘I just want to cut it off’: the weight-loss patients who no longer fit their skin 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

Included in the collection are shadow puppets, optical toys and phenakistiscopes, discs that, when spun, create the illusion that a drawing is moving. In Los Angeles, a new museum celebrates the art of moviemaking 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

Complicating matters, he introduced a life-size Muppet-like puppet, Carlos the Lion, who served as a sort of elder antagonist figure, constantly prodding Chance to remain on message. Chance the Rapper Honors Chicago, His Hometown, With Magnificent Coloring Day 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z

"Down with Dagon," he screams at the puppets, "tis I, will no longer endure your profanation." Ben Jonson, like Charb of Charlie Hebdo, sought to reduce zealots 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

Riley, a 41-year-old Oakland resident, who traveled across the country honing his puppet craft, and even toured Japan, met Menegus at Children's Fairyland. Fratello Marionettes bring wood, Styrofoam, cloth to life 2012-01-24T17:04:32Z

SUN Display of thousands of live and dead bugs, puppet show performances of "The Secret Life of Bugs," 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Community calendar 2011-09-15T00:19:04Z

I dislike how he impresses people with few choices into his grotesque, allegorical puppet theater while maintaining his own godlike invisibility. Art Review: Behold the Anonymous Downtrodden 2011-06-02T21:57:17Z

The same is true of these boys, that some people just dismiss them as puppets. One Direction disarm Spurlock 2013-08-15T06:48:44Z

A backpack strapped to actor Konicek’s torso provides the center of gravity for the BFG puppet and a sort of skeleton for kids to peer into. ‘BFG’ is a fun puppet adventure for parents and kids at Imagination Stage

The play, by Robert Askins, chronicles a struggle between an adolescent boy and the demonic sock puppet he encounters at a church puppet ministry. ‘Hand to God’ to Have 13 Productions This Season 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

Children will also find directions for making animal puppets from recyclable materials and a game matching items of trash with their appropriate destination: composting bin, recycling container or garbage can. Earth Day’s Gone Digital. Here’s Where to Find It. 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

“I am a musician, not a puppet for the political arena.” Ukraine drops Eurovision singer over Russia row 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z

He then went on, "You're on CNN. The show leading into me is puppets making crank phone calls. What is wrong with you?" 25 years of "The Daily Show": Here’s 5 ways it permanently changed U.S. satire 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z

The presence of a Punch doll in the nursery gives brainy Detective Arthur Bryant ample room to expound on arcane puppet lore. Crime fiction: new works by Thomas Perry and Cara Black 2012-03-07T22:57:05Z

With a puppet, no matter what it’s playing, all you have to worry about is what it’s telling you onstage. Puppetry So Lifelike, Even Their Deaths Look Real 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z

"Sesame Street" puppeteers can sometimes mourn a puppet who is declared "toast" 15 secrets of "Sesame Street" puppeteers 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

Opening just after Labor Day is Mr. Gleeson’s show, “Bears in Space,” a quirky adventure featuring music and puppets, about two bears on a spaceship being chased across the universe by villains. 59E59 Announces Season 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

He later mocked "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," sang with Hugh Jackson and rode one of the puppet horses of "War Horse." Tony awards, 2011: Big winners and Northwest connections 2011-06-13T04:29:05Z

The real comic nemeses of Thatcher were the puppets of Spitting Image. Margaret Thatcher, hero of British comedy 2013-04-10T13:21:01Z

The sign below him read “Not a puppet / You’re a puppet,” in English and Russian. The Much-Needed Humor of the Women’s March 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z

With photographs, video, music, puppets and masks, the touring show transports you to celebrations from the U.S. to Spain to Mexico to Brazil. What our writers love this week 2011-10-05T22:48:04Z

There, cast members, some turned away from the audience, manipulate figurines, homemade puppets and, yes, a nutcracker for scenes projected on a screen. Review: ‘Kevin!!!!!,’ a Multimedia Sendup of ‘Home Alone’ 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

“This one is Lamb Chop,” he said, cradling a brittle rubber head that is all that remained of a hand puppet that was the television ventriloquist Shari Lewis’s sidekick. Everything Here Is Tabboo! 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

At the same time Tyrone and the classmate’s female puppet are engaging in very graphic, imaginative — and, well, vocal — puppet sex. Arts & Leisure: Steven Boyer Unleashes His Inner Demon in ?Hand to God? 2011-12-04T03:30:05Z

It’s hard to argue for our nation’s maturity when our leader tweets like an unmedicated preteen and thinks, “No puppet! You’re the puppet!” is a cogent debate response. Outgrowing the cosmetic left: A liberal plea for fake liberalism to grow up 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z

You can see the shift in The New York Times, with mention of puppets now commonplace in theater reviews. Give Them a Hand: Puppet Artists Are Having a Moment 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

It's hard to empathize with a Madame puppet, isn't it? Are "The Real Housewives" really flesh-eating zombies? 2010-10-16T23:01:00Z

Pawn, patsy or puppet master, Miernik is an irresistibly enigmatic onion to peel. A maze of danger and deception in newly reissued spy novels 2013-12-06T22:54:24Z

He had not seen the performers and puppets in action until now, in a rehearsal studio in Manhattan. Jules Feiffer and a ‘Hamilton’ Producer Color Outside the Lines for a New Musical 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

Now there aren't many rules or requirements for life as a puppet--you 're free to be pulled by strings or manipulated by hands and it's fine to be wooden or green.  'Show Your Face' this weekend only at MCA 2011-01-14T22:36:36Z

Other activities will include instrument building with the Little Orchestra Society, and puppet making with the New Victory Theater. Spare Times for Children Listings for Oct. 14-20 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

Yet the stop-motion process is agonizing: puppets placed in miniature sets are moved a fraction of an inch for every frame of film. Tim Burton's Frankenweenie: A Re-animated Delight 2012-10-04T12:00:18Z

“That’s you, the puppet master. It’s the same way you are with people—constantly trying to buy them.” Untamed 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z

With the puppets, White hopes to make the Boren sisters “this giant reality that you can’t deny. I am sort of willing them into significance.” ‘Word painting’ artist Wayne White brings 14-foot-tall puppets to the Seattle Art Fair 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

Many carried Sanders signs, and a huge Bernie Sanders puppet was also a part of the march. The Latest: Hollywood stars hold climate rally ahead of DNC 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z

"I think it's one of the most human shows ever because puppets tell the truth and nobody says, `You can't say that,'" says McCollum. Pioneering 'Avenue Q' celebrates 10th anniversary 2013-07-29T12:50:32Z

I was very close to my older cousin, who I used to perform Christmas puppet shows with, so we kind of hung around like siblings. Bill Bailey: My family values 2011-08-26T23:04:01Z

The ad agency said: “He may only be a glove puppet but he needs integrity.” Willem Dafoe: ‘I’ve thought about murder many times’ 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z

And it's fun to shift your attention from the puppets to the black-clad artists manipulating them, as they execute a marvelous little dance of their own. Giant Magnet family day full of attractions 2011-05-12T19:27:11Z

Why is violence sustained by puppet animals so shocking and affecting? Puppetry So Lifelike, Even Their Deaths Look Real 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z

You see puppets in so many productions, whether it's something like 'War Horse' or 'Avenue Q,' even the 'Madame Butterfly' opera. Book Talk: Absurdist Jim Henson film that wasn't 2012-01-19T10:01:06Z

Or, rather Walter, with lips flapping, begins talking to himself — and soon everyone else — through the puppet. | 'The Beaver': Leave It to the Beaver to Do All the Talking 2011-05-06T07:53:01Z

It's a puppet show, but it's well known. Jordan Klepper: GOP sees "Hungary as a conservative wonderland" 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z

A typical show would consist of surreal observations on life in Frank's shed, a cameo from glove puppet Little Frank and, more often than not, a tombola. Chris Sievey obituary 2010-06-22T14:16:00Z

"It does seem like we might get close to the biggest ever assemblage of puppets in one place," he said, "and probably the most ever puppets marching on Washington." "Million Muppet March" planned to defend U.S. backing for PBS 2012-10-12T22:49:29Z

Related: Charlie Kaufman on weirdness, failure and his new puppet noir The film is quirky and, like all of Kaufman’s work, deeply singular – and is the film-maker’s first stab at animation. Anomalisa trailer: Charlie Kaufman's deeply singular stop-motion romance 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

I just want to keep doing that puppet with no backstory. 'Night of Too Many Stars' shines on one who's not 2012-10-18T17:47:14Z

On Saturday and Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., the garden’s drop-in family art project will be teddy bear caterpillars: sock puppets to be adorned with yarn, fake fur and button eyes. Spare Times Listings for Kids for Oct. 10-16 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

It would be exciting to have a show where the audience take control; by clapping, jumping, blowing or waving they could control the action of the puppets and the course of the show. Polly Dunbar's top 10 books that would make great puppet shows 2013-04-18T13:24:46Z

He says he had risen to power starting in 1945 as a puppet of an organization called the “Committee of 100,” which demanded that he continue the war in Vietnam indefinitely. For Filmmakers, Watergate Is the Gift That Keeps on Giving 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z

Made of foam and other delicate materials, "Sesame Street" puppets have a shelf life. 15 secrets of "Sesame Street" puppeteers 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

Pure puppetry is the ideal for people in the puppet world. Give Them a Hand: Puppet Artists Are Having a Moment 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

The tiny museum, workshop and puppet performance space, which opens at 2 p.m., reflect the passion of two veteran puppeteers, who live in an adjoining home. 36 Hours in Portland, Ore. 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

After the show, Mr. Adinolfi passes his puppets around the audience and discusses the play and its inspirations. Spare Times for Children, for June 28-July 4 2013-06-27T21:20:15Z

But with elaborate miniature sets and puppets whose innards are intricate gears to create movement and expression, it's a painstaking process requiring dozens of animation teams and years of work. 'Frankenweenie' joins reanimation of stop-motion 2012-10-04T14:46:17Z

“Using these puppets, which feel completely real in the moment, became a vital component in what we’re trying to do emotionally.” In ‘Jurassic World,’ Old-School Effects Make a Comeback 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

Head over to the Coliseum in Oldham for Noël Coward's Hay Fever, or to the Met in Bury next Thursday for the dark and twisted puppet show, The Shop of Little Horrors. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-06-07T16:06:29Z

The simple premise is that when Mr. Harris dreams, his dreams are populated by puppets. ArtsBeat: Falling (or Flying) With Neil Patrick Harris 2012-11-27T20:44:53Z

Without such enforcement, our courtrooms might as well be life-sized dioramas made of papier-mâché populated by puppet judges. "The Good Fight" dreams up a Hillary Clinton timeline we've all wondered about 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

“The Man” so trenchantly invoked by Mayfield was incarnated in the earlier film by a white police superintendent who wants Priest as his puppet. Review: ‘Superfly’ Adds Bling to an Old Tale 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z

But it was only when the lights went down for a ridiculous little nature documentary — O.K., technically a puppet show with live voice-over — that I began to marvel at Ms. Salerno’s embrace of limitations. FringeNYC: Plays That Are Bold, Daring and Full of Lust 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

You can imagine the duo writing its own version of “Avenue Q,” and indeed the second episode includes an audition for a children’s puppet show much like “Sesame Street.” ‘Garfunkel and Oates,’ a Comic Female Duo on IFC 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

The Times UK said: “It makes the bonking puppets in Team America: World Police look like straight-faced documentary.” 365 Days: the Netflix softcore porn film that people can't stop watching 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z

Previously, it was reported that the version of “Star Wars – Episode I: The Phantom Menace” included in this release would replace the puppet version of the Yoda character with a computer-generated creation. ArtsBeat Blog: Lucasfilm Confirms Change to Blu-ray Release of 'Return of the Jedi' 2011-08-31T18:05:51Z

Celebrating this historic ship’s 100th birthday, “Out of the Box” uses maps, models, old images and puppets to illuminate life in New York Harbor in the barge’s heyday. Spare Times for Children for July 18-24 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

Actors and puppeteers manipulate props and puppets with precision. ‘BFG’ is a fun puppet adventure for parents and kids at Imagination Stage

“I did not know until I was much older that the puppets were not real,” Piphus Peace, 29, said. ‘Sesame Street’ has its first Black female puppeteer 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z

Huge, ingenious stage puppets, live actors in masks, projections and more fill the stage in a happy, synchronous jumble. ‘BFG’ is a fun puppet adventure for parents and kids at Imagination Stage

The typical crackpot conspiracy theory relies on a masterly, Luciferian characterization of the conspirators, who are invariably depicted as puppet masters capable of pulling off elaborate illusions, feints and coverups without a hitch. Police arrest artist setting up ‘I Love NY’ work 2012-05-21T20:16:00Z

His first gig in front of a live audience was working “disabled puppets” in an ensemble called the Kids on the Block. Jon Stewart, Louis C.K., Chris Rock, Stephen Colbert, Conan O’Brien and the behind-the-scenes secrets of comedy’s ’90s glory days 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z

SAT The Enchanted World of Faeries & Goblins themed renaissance fair, dress up in whimsical attire, jousting, fencing, dancing, games, music, magicians, puppet shows and more, 10 a.m.-7p.m. 1,000 Lights Water Lantern Festival, In the Spirit Northwest Native Festival and Seattle Arab Festival 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

“We try to keep the puppet tradition alive,” said Mr. Trejtnar, who is a graduate of the renowned MFA program for puppetry design at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts. The 52 Places Traveler: Finding the Real Prague 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

The unspoken dread that infuses the film is older than Orwell’s “1984”: a fearful fascination with the obliteration of personal identity and the nightmare of human beings as robotic puppets manipulated by the mass media. Review: ‘Dreams Rewired,’ a Futuristic Look at the Past 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z

They might be stuck in an imaginary universe, but they aren’t just puppets. Theater Review: ‘Habit’ at the Essex Street Market, Building B 2012-09-23T21:21:05Z

The puppets came from a finger-puppet book, the houses were made from building blocks and the backdrop was downloaded screen savers. Previews of the 3 Minute Masterpiece winning films 2011-05-18T19:56:10Z

He likened the mechanics inside puppet heads to components of a Swiss watch. For ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,’ a Star Built From Tiny Gears and 3-D Printing 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z

Let’s just say the Dinosaurs looked too much like hand puppets, even for the fans. 'Doctor Who' Series 8 Premiere Review: Deep Breath 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z

In another skit, scenes from the movie "Flight" were performed by sock puppets. MacFarlane accepts assist from Shatner 2013-02-25T02:50:10Z

Curry is often in New York, creating sets and puppets for plays, musicals and big-budget productions. Stravinsky’s ‘Persephone’ at Seattle Symphony goes big with puppets, dancers, singers and full orchestra 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

The closing of “Avenue Q,” the profane musical featuring puppets, was announced earlier this month. ‘The Play That Goes Wrong’ to Move Off Broadway to New World Stages 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

Tastings, cooking demonstrations, hands-on preparation of herb blends, gardening, a puppet show and several other activities for children will be held from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. each day. You Say Tomato, Garden Says Fun 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z

Dun brown, with a pilled body and protuberant choppers, the puppet enters quietly. | 'The Beaver': Leave It to the Beaver to Do All the Talking 2011-05-06T07:53:01Z

He is looking at a miniature puppet theater — a direct reference to Bergman’s playing with a similar toy when he was a child. A Birthday Tribute to the Other Ingmar Bergman 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

She used her colleagues, family members, friends and enemies like mental puppets, watching them, stage-directing them, talking to them, being yelled at by them. 'The Good Wife' Recap: Alicia, Mind Wandering, Figures Out a Few Things 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z

This time, the puppets are lighter but the workload was bigger. Netflix offers fans a faithful return to ‘The Dark Crystal’ 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

The puppets — animated and voiced by skilled puppeteers — star alongside Ms. Andrews in “Julie’s Greenroom,” a new children’s show produced by the Henson Company and available on Netflix beginning March 17. The Hills Are Alive With the Sound of Julie Andrews and Henson Puppets 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

And in place of caged elephants, there are wondrous puppet simulacra from the “War Horse” team, creatures of burlap and sorcery that caused several children in the audience to delightedly lose their minds. Review: In ‘Circus 1903,’ a Littler Big Top Still Offers Some Thrills 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z

So we went on Wikipedia and started to read out loud the bio of Anthony Eden, which included the description of him as the ‘puppet’ of the U.S. government.” The Uninvited Guest: The 2016 Campaign Crashes the Dinner Party 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

All these questions and more may or may not be answered as Professor Johnson informs and entertains - using just puppets, household objects and fruit! Things to do this summer: July 2012-07-10T12:49:28Z

And now Disney is spending $50 million on a movie with singing and puppets and old friends saving the day by putting on a show! Comeback Kids 2011-06-09T11:20:00Z

The story revolves around a man's transformation through the use of a puppet. "Thor" set for thunderous debut at box office 2011-05-06T00:14:44Z

Once, my luggage was being x-rayed at the airport and seven security guards stopped to look at the puppet. Watch my lips 2010-05-07T23:06:00Z

In his movie, Mr. Spasojevic wrote, “No children were subjected to any simulated acts during the filming — everything was done with puppets and montage effects.” So Scandalous a Prosecutor Took Notice 2011-05-13T23:03:02Z

This weekend Talking Hands Theater will present “Little Superheroes,” a puppet show for ages 2 to 8 about Ruby Raccoon and Benny Bunny, superheroes just learning the ropes. Spare Times for Children for June 21-27 2013-06-20T23:01:28Z

Most importantly, it can report the news without playing puppet to Trump and his lying band of puppeteers. Michelle Wolf went full meta on “The Break,” and it was the best comedy moment all week 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

She even directed a movie with Mel Gibson and a beaver puppet. The brave one: why Jodie Foster is Hollywood’s ultimate survivor 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z

Aug. 2-17 Jousting, country dancing, games, music, puppet shows, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. August 2014 calendar of events 2014-05-11T04:00:00Z

Big Bird was often flustered but persevered with the help of his neighbors on Sesame Street, where puppet creatures and humans lived side by side. Puppeteer who performed Sesame Street's Big Bird, Oscar, dies at 85 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z

He portrays a deeply troubled man able to communicate only through a beaver puppet in the film directed by Jodie Foster. Source: Mel Gibson to plead in LA battery case 2011-03-09T18:36:10Z

Oz learned how to string puppets from his father, and as a teenager, he earned $25 an hour doing puppet shows, and served as an apprentice puppeteer at Children’s Fairyland, an amusement park. The Saga of a World War II Ancestor of Miss Piggy, Bert and Yoda 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

In a film about androids raging against their puppet master, this grungy, muscular Pinocchio steals the show. Five Sci-Fi Classics, One Summer: How 1982 Shaped Our Present 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

Not that Mr. Lee practices duplicity; rather, his renown comes from designing masks and puppets that turn human actors into fantastical characters and creatures, from a wisecracking cockroach to a majestic dragon. Spare Times for Children for Sept. 11-17 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

Take away his puppet, and the man disappears. | 'The Beaver': Leave It to the Beaver to Do All the Talking 2011-05-06T07:53:01Z

The attractions included the small Lin Liu-Hsin Puppet Theatre Museum, which highlights the art of puppet making and performance, curiously revered there. A foodie’s stinky-tofu tutorial in Taiwan 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

Plus: photography that touches on the ambiguities of gender, surreal embroideries and paper puppet theaters. Datebook: Art inspired by Octavia Butler, photos that get gender-ambiguous, revisiting a Bay Area group 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

The final and most recent show in the retrospective is Manual Cinema’s most complex to date: “Frankenstein,” which incorporates shadow puppets, three-dimensional tabletop puppets, live actors and robot percussionists. A Decade of Puppets in Organized Chaos 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

Midnight Man and Day Woman are the "most traditional" of the giant puppets, he says. '!Carnaval!' makes stop at Burke Museum 2011-10-06T21:08:05Z

Children can also create paper dragon boats and race them with dragon stick puppets. Spare Times for Children for July 27-Aug. 2 2012-07-26T22:37:49Z

The 2004 movie Team America, in which all the characters are marionette puppets, depicts Kim Jong Il as a terrorist mastermind taken down by American counterterrorism fighters. Texas Theater to Show 'Team America' After Sony Pulls 'The Interview' 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

And the giant sandworm and other puppets by Michael Curry that show up for cameos are expertly replicated from Burton’s own macabre laboratory. Review | The new ‘Beetlejuice’ musical is overcaffeinated, overstuffed and virtually charmless 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z

“These puppets, I do not like,” Il Duce says in a cartoonish accent right before ordering a henchman to take out Pinocchio. ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio’ Review: Puppets and Power 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

Yes, you are being helpful when you keep relentlessly hitting him with your puppet! Jon Stewart and Robert Smigel Craft a Comedy Benefit at a Polarized Moment 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z

As the story unfolds, it becomes clear that actually what is planned is a coup followed by a puppet government to oversee the exploitation of the country's mineral wealth. Michael Stanley's top 10 African crime novels 2010-06-30T14:27:00Z

"The Jim and Tammy Show" – a children's variety show that featured Tammy's puppets – soon became the station's most popular program. Underneath all the makeup, who was the real Tammy Faye? 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z

Traditional shadow theater was historically a staple of Damascus cafe life, as story tellers used dyed animal-skin puppets to entertain their audience with tall tales, satire, songs and verse. Syria's last shadow puppeteer hopes to save his art 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

Is the puppet a totem of the Cleavers and constructed fantasies of family? | 'The Beaver': Leave It to the Beaver to Do All the Talking 2011-05-06T07:53:01Z

“Why do we have to have this argument at all? They’re puppets, for crying out loud” is a common refrain here. Are Ernie and Bert gay? Who gets to say? 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

Also, if you didn’t read that précis of the show beforehand, you’d have no clue that the cardinals were pinch-hitting for puppets. ‘The Cardinals’ at the Public Theater 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

"Kevin comes alive through Elmo," says Clash's mother, and it's true: Watching him manipulate the puppet for adoring children, a kindness and joy shines through. Your guide to SIFF 2011 2011-06-01T17:39:05Z

Remember that one time, the thing with the puppets? Gift advice that’ll bring you Knope and joy 2012-11-23T16:00:00Z

His special includes puppet segments to illustrate key bits like the competitive relationship he had with his doorman, which evolved out of a discomfort with class divides. Wyatt Cenac takes his ‘Live in Brooklyn,’ and life in Brooklyn, on the road

And after the war, he added, there were 45 years of living under a puppet government, when “no politics was possible without asking Moscow.” Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish Composer With Cinematic Flair, Dies at 86 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z

There is a puppet master of sorts in “The Salvation” who helps make Delarue jump and gives the movie a weak glimmer of a political back story, though one as persuasive as “F Troop.” Review: In ‘The Salvation,’ a Hero Lays Waste, Western Style (Danish, Too) 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

In the movie Donny the doberman doesn't get a part, the whales are puppets and the love interest is strictly between humans. Drew Barrymore saves the whales and melts cold war ice in Big Miracle 2012-02-09T13:12:00Z

Jones gives you lots to look at — I haven’t even mentioned the puppets yet — and keeps things moving. A breezy Mary leads Olney’s ‘Poppins’ 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z

In short: Forget animation, bring back the puppets. ‘The Dark Crystal’ Returns on an Even Grander Scale 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

After they arrived in Oakland in 1951, Oz’s parents founded the San Francisco Bay Area Puppeteers Guild, and the family living room became a gathering spot for puppet makers and enthusiasts from across the region. The Saga of a World War II Ancestor of Miss Piggy, Bert and Yoda 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

Generally, the shadow puppets and silly dances are at odds with the themes of abandonment and loneliness. | 'The Tragical Life of Cheeseboy': An Orphan?s Adventures, Ripe for the Telling 2011-05-02T21:32:52Z

Momma Rose, of “Gypsy,” may be the definitive stage mother of all time, but this puppet musical gives her some fierce competition from the barnyard: Mother Piggy. Events for Children in NYC This Week 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

Naked puppets do freak some people out, and the anatomy on display here is unusually detailed. Review: In ‘Chambre Noire,’ Puppets Make Poetry Painfully Real 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

The new "Sesame Street"-centric doc raises some interesting questions about why Elmo eventually usurped Big Bird as the program's most popular puppet. Caroll Spinney's proudly worn Big Bird's yellow feathers for 45 years 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

The puppet stands 20 inches tall, hand-painted and carved out of wood, its uniform tattered and torn. The Saga of a World War II Ancestor of Miss Piggy, Bert and Yoda 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

“The timing is right, the puppets are ready, the people have spoken,” said Law, mocking Johnson’s recent election campaign rhetoric, which focused on a promise to “get Brexit done”. Weather reports from Greta Thunberg as cult UK show 'Spitting Image' returns 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

Whether dealing with humans or puppets, she just keeps going, breezily tasting food and keeping the show moving seamlessly. How Padma Lakshmi grew from"Top Chef" host into the show's guiding core 2023-06-10T04:00:00Z

These percentages shifted significantly for the eight-year-olds: They allocated 71 percent to the other group’s puppet, four percent to their own group’s puppet, and 25 percent to the box. Kids are learning intolerance at a surprisingly young age 2014-01-31T12:45:00Z

One day Mel Gibson's character discovers a partially-covered beaver puppet in a skip. Mel Gibson leaves it to The Beaver 2010-12-08T11:44:00Z

The objective was for the actors to practice making the slow, deliberate movements that are crucial to manipulating puppets. For Imagination Stage’s ‘BFG’ puppeteers, canned tomatoes are free weights

Later, the spectacular San Min Aung, in a duet with an actual marionette, mimicked the puppet by dropping onto his knee and floating back up — a disjointed dancer seemingly controlled by invisible string. Review: Shwe Man Thabin at Asia Society 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z

Fair warning: This article is riddled with spoilers about puppet deaths in “Life of Pi,” the stage adaptation of Yann Martel’s best-selling novel about a shipwrecked teenager adrift on the Pacific Ocean. Puppetry So Lifelike, Even Their Deaths Look Real 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z

If one is going to create puppets then one has to make them move, and they don't. On an alien shore 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z

What's more, the internet movie geeks who once served the films they loved, and represented the interests of fellow fans, are now frequently the puppets and playthings of the Hollywood studios. The geek stranglehold on cinema 2010-07-29T21:45:00Z

The Reitmans joined a relative in Toronto, where Ivan displayed his show biz inclinations: starting a puppet theater, entertaining at summer camps, playing coffee houses with a folk music group. Ivan Reitman, producer, ‘Ghostbusters’ director, dies at 75 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z

He profusely flattered Mr. Trump as “the best candidate” and “the smartest candidate” — and “the Manchurian candidate,” implying Mr. Trump was an unwitting Russian puppet. ‘S.N.L.’ Hammers Donald Trump as a ‘Gift’ to Vladimir Putin for Christmas 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

It's while he contemplates ending everything that he picks up a battered old beaver puppet from a skip - who starts speaking to him. 'I'm the Beaver' 2011-06-17T07:30:51Z

The queens pull a puppet incarnation of one of their competitors out of a hole, put it in drag, and then “have a bitchfest” with it. RuPaul's Drag Race recap: season 12, episode 11 – the queens Whoopi it up 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z

Even Sesame Street's Elmo, a fuzzy red puppet, has received coverage for his "testimony" - in 2002 about the benefits of music education. Colbert sparks debate about 'expert' celebrities 2010-09-28T11:16:00Z

We've shown Fantastic Mr Fox outside 3 Mills Studios and invited the animators to bring puppets from the film. Pop-up cinemas: top 10 tips for creating your own 2011-08-22T16:06:12Z

The scruffy full-size puppets are manipulated by denim-clad actors doing weird voices. Revisiting Childhood Wonder With Winnie the Pooh and Emmet Otter 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

If its life-size horse puppets were not sufficiently challenging, the coming production of “War Horse” will also employ an ensemble of 35 actors, all new to the play. ArtsBeat: 'War Horse' Corrals Its American Cast 2010-12-20T19:15:23Z

It became clear that you couldn’t just do an impression, you had to caricature the voice that matched the puppet. How Do You Play Margaret Thatcher? Like This 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

Commissions were few, however, so he responded eagerly to the opportunity to make a puppet series called The Adventures of Twizzle in 1956. Thunderbirds guru Anderson dies 2012-12-27T09:57:48Z

However, compared to The Beaver starring Mel Gibson, the tale of a menopausal executive who speaks to a hand puppet, Ted is a watercolour exercise in whimsical charm. Ted – review 2012-08-02T14:30:02Z

FRI-SUN Thistle Theatre puppet version of the fairy tale, 7:30 p.m. Community calendar 2011-10-05T22:25:05Z

It can be difficult to communicate that a puppet is able to focus a pair of fixed eyes on something, whether it's another character, an object, or the audience. 15 secrets of "Sesame Street" puppeteers 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

Wolf, who serves as the narrator, is a simple but expressive puppet made of wood, cardboard and papier-mâché in this probing and playful exploration of family by Hansol Jung. ‘Wolf Play’ Review: What Keeps a Family From Falling to Pieces? 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z

It is the morbidity of the puppets – they embody death – that suits Bartlett's exploration of mortality. Or You Could Kiss Me ? review 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z

But the effect is a figure animated by some irrational, spasmodic motion, like a puppet suspended in space and subjected to electrical torture. ‘Days of Endless Time’ at the Hirshhorn examines our need for nature to soothe us

He's a tall, chestnut-colored steed named Joey, embodied onstage by a life-size puppet manipulated by three fully visible puppeteers. Broadway Review: 'War Horse' Enters the Winner's Circle 2011-04-15T09:20:00Z

As for Trump calling Clinton a puppet, Noah joked: “Trump thinks all women are puppets, that’s why he’s trying to stick his hand up them.” 'Like an impression of Alec Baldwin': late-night hosts on Trump's debate lines 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

And everywhere, Lee gave castoffs new life: Piano keys serve as puppet teeth, and can lids as eyes. The Wide World of Puppetry Converges on New York 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z

Actors and puppets both have roles in Rick Balian’s script, which is based on a Mexican folk tale and shows how the birthday kids manage to have their cake and eat it, too. Spare Times for Children for May 8-14 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

Using shadow puppets, the troupe, making just one appearance this weekend, presents the familiar tales and rhymes with humorous and unusual twists. Spare Times: For Children, March 23-29 2012-03-22T22:00:09Z

But the film will use real horses, not these remarkable puppets, which will make it something entirely different. Broadway review: Extraordinary puppets make heart of 'War Horse' beat 2011-04-15T00:43:39Z

It is crammed with puppets, accessories, newspaper articles, posters, photos and over 3,000 figurines. 20 of the world’s creepiest museums 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

But these puppet masters aren't the sole destroyers in this story. The allure of Netflix's brutal "Squid Game" owes a debt to our predatory upbringing 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z

It features an appealing menagerie of puppets, including a very sympathetic grey-and-white pussycat called Jennifer and a bat who is good on the euphonium. The House Where Winter Lives; Hansel and Gretel; Pinocchio – review 2012-12-30T00:06:25Z

“The dance is where Salome casts off the puppet and lets go of the body that other people look at and desire,” Marlis Petersen, the German soprano who plays Salome, said in an interview. It’s ‘Salome.’ But With Puppets. 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

Ms. Skipitares’s most deft decision may be the assigning of those lead female roles to the puppets. | 'Lysistrata': When the Puppets Called a Sex Strike 2011-02-08T23:43:08Z

That year a fighting-trim Mao Zedong helped create the Chinese Soviet Republic, and Japan invaded the Chinese province of Manchuria, setting up a puppet government. Movie Review: ‘Dangerous Liaisons,’ Directed by Hur Jin-ho 2012-11-09T01:55:30Z

Owing to the frequent proximity of puppets in frame, "Sesame Street" puppeteers are usually working near or virtually over other performers. 15 secrets of "Sesame Street" puppeteers 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

The opera, about Gandhi’s work in South Africa from 1893 to 1914, is sung in Sanskrit and features fanciful puppets and innovative video projections. The Week Ahead: Oct. 30 ? Nov. 5 2011-10-27T18:15:00Z

Preparations were under way on Tuesday ahead of next week's opening at London's O2 venue, with organizers opening a crate carrying a puppet of the much-loved Yoda character and putting it on display. Touring 'Star Wars Identities' exhibition comes to London 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

Two striking sequences that resemble cut and folded paper and a pseudo-Méliès film within the film involving carved wood puppets offer welcome alternatives to the conventional realism of so many CG releases. 'Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart' beats with imagination 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

A skeleton hand puppet is a key prop. REVIEW: 'Dance Shelter' in Hamlin Park 2011-04-08T19:59:00Z

Ms. Skipitares, who has used puppets to expound on classical Greek plays, takes a chance by delving into a modern script. A Puppet Theater Response to Ionesco in ‘The Chairs’ 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

One involves dancing people-trees and an oracle dispensing individual predictions – "you are developing a nasty itch" – and the other is a puppet show of the story of Jesus and Barabbas. Turner prize show set to delight and baffle at same time 2012-10-01T23:43:00Z

Days later, she began rehearsals, with Wilson and puppets. Dafne Keen of His Dark Materials: 'Lyra taught me to not follow rules' 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

The more modern couple might head Off Broadway for the puppet action in “Avenue Q.” Performances for Valentine?s Day, or Thereabouts 2012-02-02T23:32:29Z

Horses were perfectly suited for a puppet treatment which revelled in mystery, grace and wordlessness. Or You Could Kiss Me ? review 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z

With simple gestures — turning her head, lifting her arms, lurching forward — the puppet conveys Penelope’s torment and confusion. Review: Puppets Are the Stars in ‘Il Ritorno d’Ulisse’ 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

The Beaver's blend of darkly humorous drama - not to mention belief in a talking glove puppet - did not appeal to box office audiences in the States. 'I'm the Beaver' 2011-06-17T07:30:51Z

Yet Anomalisa comes across from the very start as deeply strange and unsettling – because its actors are all puppets. Charlie Kaufman on weirdness, failure and his new puppet noir 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

This of course is Caesar, played at different times by a high-tech puppet, a digital effect and by Serkis in a chimp suit, and in all guises he's the most compelling character. "Rise of the Planet of the Apes": Can James Franco make peace with chimps? 2011-08-03T21:30:00Z

I was used to doing things with my feet for the puppet theater, so I started adding the vocal loops, keeping every limb occupied and singing over the top. Tune-Yards overcomes 'crisis of faith' 2011-05-05T15:49:49Z

Onstage in Lincoln Center Theater’s maximalist revival of “The Skin of Our Teeth” last spring were a giant brontosaurus puppet, a full-scale amusement park slide and a stage-spanning verdant field in full bloom. ‘Bold Enough to Go Full-Tilt’: Gabby Beans Is Playing to the Balcony 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z

“The aristocracy would have to be operated by the servants like puppets,” Mr. Wright said. Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s Choreography for ‘Anna Karenina’ 2012-11-23T21:30:27Z

But the double vision that ensues when both actor and puppet are simultaneously visible can be hugely rewarding. A Midsummer Night's Dream - review 2013-03-08T16:04:46Z

The tone of this tragic farce, in which Edgar becomes a puppet caught up in events and manipulated by unseen strings in an uncaring universe, is never consistent. Teatro Corsario: La Maldici?n de Poe ? review 2011-01-16T22:32:01Z

Band of Misfits — employ stop-motion animation, a maddening process that requires its devoted artisans to place puppets in elaborate doll-house sets and move them a scintilla for every exposed frame of film. Oscars 2013: Richard Corliss’ Picks – Best Animated Feature 2013-02-21T22:04:37Z

Enormous puppet forearms and hands protrude from the sides. Review: In This ‘Ring’ Cycle, Gods Dwell in an Old Theater 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

From the start, for the audience, there is a question about focus and whether our eyes will be fixed on the puppets or stray to the puppeteers where the warm-blooded life is. Or You Could Kiss Me ? review 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z

This Saturday and on Dec. 13, 21 and 27, Mr. Achtem will also give workshops after the 11 a.m. shows to teach children how to make their own shadow puppets from castoff and recycled goods. Spare Times for Children for Dec. 5-Dec. 11 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

SAT Celebration of new exhibit of carnival celebrations around the world, with Brazilian music, dancing, giant puppets, mask making and carnival crafts, noon-4 p.m.; travelogue, 1:30 p.m.; presentation on steel drums, 3 p.m. Community calendar 2011-09-28T21:16:04Z

Between the bees and the bleating, my little lamb got fired and I used a puppet from then on. Missing Theater Under the Stars (Even the Bugs and the Rain) 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

It also includes a great deal of explicit violence against puppets and as many clichés regarding gender as the classic-era crime stories, including Chandler’s own, serve up. The Fascinating Failures of “The Happytime Murders” 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

Leah Ogawa’s latest puppet, an ethereal tree-shaped form, has more than 600: clustered into thickets and tangles, threaded through eye bolts on the ceiling, and fanning out overhead to all corners of the room. Call It Dance, Puppetry or Sculpture, It Is Eerily Beautiful 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z

Most intriguing, they found the puppets I’d always adored as a kid the least interesting part of the show. Perspective | What happened when I showed vintage Mister Rogers to my 21st-century kids 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

Hannah Senesh Community Day School will celebrate the occasion with this festival, which will offer a costume parade, carnival games, face painting and a puppet variety show. Spare Times for Children for March 14-20 2014-03-13T23:26:13Z

Aug. 6-21 Jousting, country dancing, games, music, puppet show, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Summer Guide | August 2016 events around Seattle 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

The puppet parody, which originally ran Off Broadway in 2016, is back on the road for what is billed as the “Final Farewell” tour. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

Families can work together to build puppet characters and learn about the art of expression through puppetry. Spare Times for Children for July 31-Aug. 6 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

The puppets, controlled from above using strings, perch on children’s laps or nip playfully on an elbow. Marionettes at Play 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

Everyone was worried: Would the subscription audience accept puppets saying and singing four-letter words? Pioneering 'Avenue Q' celebrates 10th anniversary 2013-07-29T12:50:32Z

Manufacturers in Europe and the United States caricatured Jews as shabby, greedy and menacing, and put these depictions on cigar boxes, candlesticks, trays, tiles, walking sticks, puppets and board games. Antiques: Anti-Semitic Artifacts, New York History and Greek Coins 2011-12-22T23:04:32Z

The Germans, who have appointed their own puppet ruler, are fleeing to Berlin. The White Guard | Theatre review 2010-03-24T21:30:00Z

The objection raised by several council members was that a puppet depicting a Muslim refugee should not be permitted to perform in a space of such importance to Greek Orthodox believers. Giant Puppet Ruffles Some Feathers on a Long Walk Through Greece 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

The stage show – which is now a worldwide hit – features lifesize equine puppets made from cane, plywood and mesh, which are manipulated on stage by three actors. Revenge of the Muppets 2012-02-12T20:00:19Z

We went to the Great Hill on 106th Street to see a puppet show. “Gimme Shelter” in Central Park 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z

Obligingly, she took her place in front of the camera, and removed a puppet monkey from her handbag. An Art of Loopholes 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z

It’s not so much proper behavior that our renegade puppet has to learn as it is learning to feel the pain of others. Review: A Wondrous ‘Pinocchio’ With That ‘Lion King’ Magic 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

Be the buffoon they think you are: there’s something very restful about being viewed as little more than a ludicrous, cash-dispensing flesh puppet. Why your teenager thinks you’re an idiot 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z

Geppetto is indistinct, too, at one point rhapsodizing about his ambition to build the “most beautiful puppet,” then rejoicing in the delivery of a “son” for which he’d never expressed any yearning. ‘Pinocchio’ Review: An Enchanting Yet Befuddling Adaptation 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z

That means re-enactments using very basic computerized graphics, a group of enthusiastic puppets and an avant-garde dance troupe. “Loose collection of daytime nonsense”: SNL mocks CNN’s bizarre “reenactments” 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z

It includes a response to the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, expressed through butoh dance and large-scale puppets by the Phantom Limb company, called “Falling Out.” Perspective | Can a festival make the Kennedy Center a destination for political art? 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

It uses stop-frame animation rather than hand puppets or people dressed in suits and is unashamedly educational. Teletubbies creator sad about remake 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

Kohler and Jones represent them in the present day; puppets portray them in the past, on the week they met; and also in the future, 67 years later, when one of them is dying. The gay puppet stars of Or You Could Kiss Me 2010-10-03T20:59:00Z

He's also not able to see through the costume, so he interacts with the other puppets by watching a monitor that is strapped to his chest via what he refers to as an "electronic bra." Caroll Spinney's proudly worn Big Bird's yellow feathers for 45 years 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

“Dummystruck” would be a more accurate handle for this outsider documentary, given that its ventriloquism-obsessed subjects seem more comfortable expressing themselves with at least one hand wiggling in the body cavity of a puppet. | 'Dumbstruck': ?Dumbstruck? Shows Ventriloquists? World 2011-04-22T04:53:01Z

There were “weird” puppets and “pretty” puppets and “scary” puppets, and the assembly gave the three-room apartment a sense of being super-populated with inanimate beings awaiting a sorcerer. Everything Here Is Tabboo! 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z

On Sunday, the festival celebrated its 28th year of transforming the sprawling 67-acre park in uptown Manhattan into a medieval market where visitors can buy anything from corsets to puppets to jewelry. New Yorkers take ye olde trip uptown for annual Medieval festival 2012-10-01T14:24:54Z

We had babies, dogs, horses, puppets – so many uncontrollable elements – but got through it. Mia Wasikowska: ‘After a while acting leaves you feeling hollow' 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z

On it goes, with the eye mesmerized by the cascade of gazelle puppets and the heart arrested by the elegant lionesses, whether they are on the prowl or mourning the death of their king. ‘The Lion King,’ exuberant as ever, takes pride of place at the Kennedy Center

When we were first introduced to the Office of Policy Coordinations and its weird war room of sock puppet trolls it was genuinely chilling. Homeland season six finale recap – America First 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z

Magic, puppet shows, Bollywood dance: The lineup sounds so much fun, you’ll feel like a kid again. 5 things to do this weekend, from cheap to splurgey 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z

A wild horse, another puppet, races behind her. Part circus, part technology trade show, Cirque du Soleil's Mexico-themed 'Luzia' opens in L.A. 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z

Part drill sergeant, part life coach, the puppet starts running Walter and the show. | 'The Beaver': Leave It to the Beaver to Do All the Talking 2011-05-06T07:53:01Z

Lasers zip across a stage littered with detritus, reflecting off spoons and illuminating a fish tank in which a Big Ears puppet is ritually drowned. Gobo. Digital Glossary ? review 2011-01-23T00:05:54Z

Most of the actors are like plasticene puppets on a stop-motion movie set; their creators were so dazzled by their skills at art direction that they forgot to animate the figures. 2010-01-09T05:10:00Z

One may be just the celebrity talking about their experience and we may animate it with animation or puppets or stop-motion. John Stamos on Losing Your Virginity with John Stamos 2013-05-07T14:58:10Z

The show tells the festival story with shadow puppets. Spare Times for Children for Sept. 21-27 2012-09-20T21:20:45Z

But the stars are the puppets, built and manipulated by members of Blind Summit Theater with dazzling virtuosity. Gotham Chamber Opera’s ‘El Gato con Botas’ 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

The new album kicks off with a spirited performance of a Paul Hindemith fox trot, written for a Christmas play with puppets. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z

Until then, I hadn’t given much thought to the economy of Westeros, or to its astonishing wealth gap and the notion that there are puppet strings controlled by bankers. Perspective | Was ‘Game of Thrones’ supposed to mean anything? Only if you wanted it to. 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z

As Family Guy proves, MacFarlane can make up for quality with quantity, and there were some decent bits in the opening, especially a sequence that re-created the movie Flight with sock puppets. American Dud: Seth MacFarlane’s Awkward Oscars 2013-02-25T08:05:16Z

“More people are hearing and seeing puppets, and it’s really wonderful that an established arts organization like Washington Performing Arts recognizes that.” A surprise after the final performance of ‘Fetch Clay, Make Man’ at Round House

A children’s television show called “Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie,” starring the beloved Mrs. Murray and puppet pals including Candace, Gypsy, Teddy and Mister Face, is ending its many-year run. Review: Puppets and Power Make for a Marvelous ‘Menagerie’ 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

After writing her back and calling her and her parents, Rogers flew to the hospital to see her, his puppets in tow. Fred Rogers’s Life in 5 Artifacts 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

Daniel, a fuzzy little guy, is supposed to be the son of Daniel Striped Tiger, a puppet character from the original “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.” 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

Put together a puppet in the next bed. An opera about Walt Disney, in commuting distance of Disneyland 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

The one exception will be Papageno, who, content in his role as a puppet, will always move fluidly and speak with his own voice. In Germany, a New ‘Magic Flute’ Is a Deadly Serious Game 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

The puppet, made "to hold only the strings that hold me", is immobilised now by the threads that once allowed him to move. Poem of the week: Puppet by Gillian Allnutt 2012-11-19T10:39:07Z

Eric Fertman’s sculptures are just as enticing: hanging over a vanity table in the corner is a red bulb supported by a puppet cross. Dance Review: Through a Portal, to a World Where Listless Blue Creatures Await 2011-07-24T21:41:17Z

Tears of Joy Theatre The Portland-based puppet troupe returns with a pair of bilingual, family-friendly fables inspired by Mexican and Argentinian folk tales. L.A. theater openings, Nov. 15-22: 'Latina Christmas Special' and more 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

It is not exactly clear how — or even if — the Hitler puppet was used in performances. The Saga of a World War II Ancestor of Miss Piggy, Bert and Yoda 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

Which I keep hearing as "The Beaver," which is a new movie directed by Jodie Foster and starring Mel Gibson, and which is about, of course, a beaver hand puppet and not Justin Bieber. Movie news: a new "Superman," maybe no "Great Gatsby," and more 2011-02-01T18:23:05Z

Their journey, with no guarantee of success, requires extreme patience and a disconnection from what Tesson, who narrates, calls the “puppet show of humanity.” ‘The Velvet Queen’ Review: Searching for an Elusive Leopard 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

Democrats focused on implying that Trump was what Hillary Clinton once memorably said he was: Russian President Vladi­mir Putin’s puppet. Russia is messing with us, and so is Congress 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

Catch up on the latest canoodling, backstabbing and "puppet dates" over on Yahoo. Catch-up TV guide: from Mad Dogs to The United States Of Television: America In Primetime 2013-05-04T04:59:01Z

Many of the puppets show the characters as they were first constructed. Miss Piggy joins Kermit in US museum 2013-09-25T09:12:11Z

I pointed out that, because of the success of our satirical puppet show Spitting Image, we would probably be joined at the hip forever with Thatcher. Margaret Thatcher and Spitting Image: we had no idea we would be joined at the hip 2013-04-17T19:00:01Z

Dominic Cavendish, reviewing the play in The Daily Telegraph, said those puppets were “worth the price of admission alone.” ‘Prima Facie’ and ‘My Neighbour Totoro’ Win Big at the Olivier Awards 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

A production from the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theater, this puppet musical, closing on Friday, centers on the annual variety show put on by the Bears, in which Baby Bear asks Santa to star. Spare Times: For Children, for Dec. 30-Jan. 5 2011-12-29T22:23:48Z

As the producer Lisa Henson put it, “They do things that other puppet builders do not have the patience or the expertise to do.” For ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,’ a Star Built From Tiny Gears and 3-D Printing 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z

She was joined by 30 other huge puppets — some made to look like fish, others dressed like kings. Four Months, 5,000 Miles: A Refugee Puppet Looks for Home 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

According to our tour guide, in past centuries such puppets were used to communicate official information, ideas and even gossip that the ruling powers didn’t necessarily want people to know. The best way to see thousands of temples in central Burma: Hot-air balloon 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

It included songs, puppets, and even an offstage President Vladimir V. Putin trying to direct the action and divert the audience’s attention from the killing. Lucy Prebble’s ‘A Very Expensive Poison’ Wins the Blackburn Prize 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z

The raunchy, not-so-politically-correct puppets in the musical “Avenue Q” are only — ahem — “For Now.” Everything in Life Is Only for Now: ‘Avenue Q’ to Close in April 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

That was, after all, what Fred Rogers’s life and career were all about — every song he sang, every puppet he voiced, every considered word he spoke on his beloved television program, “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.” How Mister Rogers became a timeless oracle of parenting wisdom 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z

In “Hand to God,” a hand puppet named Tyrone violently bites the ear of an unsuspecting young man, and the audience, both times I saw the show, seemed unsure how to react. ‘Hand to God’ Melds Gore and Giggles, Each Often Elicited by a Puppet 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z

The next stage — where, thanks to some high-tech wizardry, we spy on the offstage lives of these puppets — puts the audience in the voyeur's role. Spectrum Dance Theater's 'Petruchska': The mobile version 2012-04-14T18:28:03Z

The surprisingly expressive puppets draw swords, dance with knights and cry over fallen suitors. In Transit: Exploring Ancient Czech Legends in Prague 2011-01-27T11:00:43Z

The puppets speak in English when not singing, and the libretto is a mischievous combination of traditional dialogue with contemporary double entendres, often sly, sometimes risqué. Review: 'Pulcinella Vendicato' is puppet opera at its magical best 2010-04-27T00:45:00Z

And of course the spectral puppets, glowing from within. I Love London Theater. But Not London Theatergoing. 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

Paper Canoe Theater Company performs her adventure, which closes this weekend and includes puppets, video projections and movement. Spare Times for Children Listings for April 8-14 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

The hot-air balloon of what is now referred to as white male privilege comes plummeting to earth in the pitiful visage of a once-vigorous breadwinner trotted around like a garish puppet. Review | Taylor Mac’s play ‘Hir’ shows an America that’s groping in the dark for its moral identity 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z

On top of that, however, there's what might be described as comic sketches, usually performed by hand puppets to a musical soundtrack. An Edinburgh comedy judge's diary: the gaffer of gaffer? 2012-08-16T10:35:41Z

In the section of the play in question, the protagonist teenager named Jason tries to win over a girl by performing part of the routine with a sock puppet. ‘Hand to God’ Play Sued by Abbott and Costello Heirs Over Use of ‘Who’s on First?’ 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

In our enlightened era some fortunate puppets have been allowed privileges denied to the likes of Howdy, Kukla, Ollie and the rest. Arts & Leisure: ?69?S.,? Shackleton Tale, Comes to BAM Next Wave Festival 2011-10-30T03:00:38Z

In an outdoor arena in Manchester, as Little Amal took her final steps, she was surrounded by a flock of wooden puppet swallows. Four Months, 5,000 Miles: A Refugee Puppet Looks for Home 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

Combining paleontology with pure whimsy — these dinosaurs do ride a train — the production uses enormous puppets and special effects to tell Buddy’s tale. Spare Times for Children for April 24-30 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

The group pointed to a sketch in which MacFarlane's puppet bear Ted remarked to the A-list crowd at the Dolby Theatre that it's better to be Jewish if you want to work in Hollywood. Oscar TV audience rises to 40.3 million, show gets mauling 2013-02-25T23:52:16Z

And this year, "Sesame Street" debuted two new Black puppets. Six powerful ways "Sesame Street" shaped our culture, as seen in poignant new "Sunny Days" special 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z

He never claimed authorship and, to this day, he will not name the project because he likes the idea of the puppet master remaining forever anonymous. Bits Blog: Meet Lord Huron, a Musical Project That Is Also an Alternate Reality Game 2014-02-20T12:26:07Z

It's neither true that he completely controls them, nor that he is their puppet, right? Alex Gibney on "Citizen K": Real-life thriller of an oligarch who turned against Vladimir Putin 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z

The new production of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" features live actors manipulating puppets of everything from birds and masks to disembodied limbs. 'Warhorse' director brings puppets to Spoleto 2013-06-01T14:35:08Z

Ms. Andrews and Ms. Hamilton weighed in extensively when the puppets were being designed and built at the Creature Shop. The Hills Are Alive With the Sound of Julie Andrews and Henson Puppets 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

A delicate, small nightingale puppet on a long pole is manipulated by an unseen puppeteer. Music Review: Stravinsky?s Tales, Dunked in the Spin Cycle 2011-03-02T22:59:11Z

Some of David Valentine’s three-dimensional puppets and masks capture the grace and mystique of wild beasts, but others look like stuffed animals smuggled from F. A. O. Schwarz. Theater Review: ?Leakey?s Ladies,? About 3 Primatologists, at Dixon Place 2012-01-26T22:44:11Z

The parade was to be “a transient entertainment” with musicians, giant puppets and floats. Ralph Lee, Father of Puppets and a New York Parade, Dies at 87 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z

He was on the fence about which way he was going to go, whether he would really pursue the puppets or pursue the filmmaking. Book Talk: Absurdist Jim Henson film that wasn't 2012-01-19T10:01:06Z

And a circus tent skirt that doubled as a puppet show set — with painted black velvet backdrops and puppets decked out like Mexican revolutionaries. Astrid Hadad, 'Lady Gaga of Nixtamal,' is part of thrilling start to PST's performance fest 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

Looking to broaden their appeal, they created a puppet show for children who attended their meetings. Underneath all the makeup, who was the real Tammy Faye? 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z

In fact, voicing that sex scene is the most intimate sex scene I’ve ever done, even though it’s not my body and the puppet isn’t based on me physically. Jennifer Jason Leigh in 2 Vastly Different New Film Roles 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z

He revived the art from old stories and history books, and made the puppets himself. Syria's last shadow puppeteer hopes to save his art 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

It's a marvelous construction, if by today's standards a quaint and humble one -- a puppet show, mixed with miniatures. TV Picks: 'Thunderbirds,' 'Incredible Crew,' UCB does 'Seinfeld' 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

From the flower-power anthems to the heavy metal lixx, the crowd knew every word – a poetic if unexpected fate for the band once forced to open for a puppet show. This Is Spinal Tap at 35: the faux-rockers reunite at Tribeca film festival 2019-04-28T04:00:00Z

In thoughtfully mimed vignettes, he shows us that the other characters, beautifully enacted if with little to say, are not just puppets of Suzanne’s memory but living creatures with their own struggles. Review: Who Committed the ‘Ohio State Murders’? Who Didn’t? 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z

There are some lovely things here, including Oliver Ford Davies's beautifully judged, quietly impressive performance as Tom, a host of appealing children and an even more appealing puppet dog. Goodnight Mister Tom - review 2011-02-06T18:06:26Z

"War Horse" — a World War I tale about horses told with puppets and actors — won five Tonys over all, including the best play award. Tony awards, 2011: Big winners and Northwest connections 2011-06-13T04:29:05Z

Celebrating their new children’s album, “Appetite for Construction,” which will be released soon, this interactive show features puppets and drawing as well as music. Spare Times for Children for March 28-April 3 2014-03-27T22:34:17Z

Giant puppets will parade the streets, with pyrotechnic displays and live performances on floats under the theme of Out of the Wild Sky, this year’s Halloween event by Galway-based performance company, Macnas. Vampire state of mind: how to join the world's greatest Halloween parade 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

The puppets, mostly life-size and elegantly attired, are used for the individual characters. | 'Lysistrata': When the Puppets Called a Sex Strike 2011-02-08T23:43:08Z

Turner Prize finalist Spartacus Chetwynd's "Odd Man Out" show comprises two theatrical performances using poorly constructed homemade costumes and puppets with paper backdrops in a deliberate effort to shy away from "professional" art. Films and funny puppets vie for Turner art prize 2012-10-01T22:10:14Z

For an experienced actress like Fey, who plays gulag boss Nadya, acting alongside a puppet was no different than a human. Evil frog spawns international mayhem in 'Muppets Most Wanted' 2014-03-18T19:03:28Z

After all, it takes a pretty good sense of humor to pull off an impeccable beige sheath dress with sleeves ending in stuffed fish-face hand puppets. The naked and the dead at Paris couture 2010-07-08T00:29:00Z

“But we also wanted to show more extraordinary things that puppets can do, both technically and in tandem with poetry.” ‘Crow’ Features Birds by Handspring Puppet Company 2012-07-06T21:58:46Z

Among the “positive resources,” the six-year-olds allocated 75 percent to their own group’s representative, 10 percent to the outsider puppet, and 15 percent to the box. Kids are learning intolerance at a surprisingly young age 2014-01-31T12:45:00Z

“The Medici: Portraits and Politics: 1512-1570” looked at portraiture in Florence as the Medici family reestablished its control over the city, now ruling as hereditary dukes rather than oligarchs and behind-the-scenes puppet masters. Perspective | Best visual art of 2021: Jasper Johns in two venues, Medici portraits and text-based artist Barbara Kruger 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

So, back to those puppets, which are designed, along with several masks, by WindRose Morris. | 'Breath on the Mirror': At La MaMa E.T.C., Einstein Looks Back on Work and Love 2010-05-11T22:07:00Z

Good toys include crayons and paper, stickers, crafts, small tubs of Play-Doh, a toy phone, finger puppets and books. Flying with babies or small children? Save a seat for sanity. 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z

"The Beaver" as a film is an odd little creature, like the puppet at its center, but its ultimate message is unexpectedly sweet: When struggling, we don't need to be alone. Jodie Foster's 'The Beaver': an odd but heartfelt tale 2011-05-06T00:13:30Z

The 20-minute episodes will combine live action and puppets, and Obama will be a series regular. Michelle Obama to team up with puppets for a kids’ food show 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

Enacted by a pair of racy puppets, this show could be hilarious or simply silly. Rap rules Day 1 at Bumbershoot 2013-09-01T03:36:27Z

Ivor was followed in the early 1960s by the sagas of Noggin the Nog, Later they branched out into stop-motion puppet animation. Bagpuss co-creator gets Bafta honour 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

The puppet has never appeared in a stage production, but she has seen her fair share of demonstrations, including in the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks in 2015. For France’s Protesters, the Streets Are the Ultimate Stage 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z

This abstract staging deftly employs movable screens, billowing fabrics, stylized costumes and, most daringly, a life-size puppet manipulated by three black-clad puppeteers to portray Butterfly’s son. Opera & Classical Music Listings for April 4-10 2014-04-03T22:38:38Z

This meant moving beyond the enduring idea that Dietrich was Sternberg’s puppet and entirely submissive about the way she was lit and represented. Marlene Dietrich in Photos: A Study in Contrasts 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z

Marina Fiaschetti, 42, who has Down syndrome, used to carry around a puppet to fight her anxiety and fear of people’s judgment. Pathological Theater, a Salve to Soothe Minds 2010-06-05T02:05:00Z

The puppets are beautifully made and inventive, and differ in scale. | 'The Battle of Stalingrad': At Lincoln Center, Souls Suspended in a Siege 2010-07-21T21:17:00Z

Maria, who was played by Sonia Manzano, worked a construction job and told a dismissive male puppet on the job, "I'm tired of you calling me 'little lady,' I have a name and it's Maria." Six powerful ways "Sesame Street" shaped our culture, as seen in poignant new "Sunny Days" special 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z

He introduces us to a pale blue finger puppet of a phantom who is, triumphantly, not the stuff of nightmares. Picture books for children – reviews 2013-07-27T13:00:01Z

We took our children to a puppet theater one night and were surprised to find a full house—at 7pm on a school night. How to Parent Like a Russian 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

The adventures of this Southern-style female Santa Claus are being presented by the Shadow Box Theater, with music, puppets and a holiday singalong for the audience. Spare Times for Children for Dec. 13-19 2013-12-12T23:34:34Z

The real problem, however, is that the puppets never become characters, as they have in the troupe’s best work, and are reduced to cumbersome props. Review: ‘Lee Harvey Oswald,’ an American Assassin in Puppet Form 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

With the cumbersome puppet now semi-supported, manoeuvring it one-handed, while using the other to animate its wings, is relatively easy. Vampire state of mind: how to join the world's greatest Halloween parade 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

No, no actual tigers will be among the cast; the puppetry and movement direction is by Finn Caldwell, with puppet design by Caldwell and Nick Barnes. Live Performance in New York: Here’s What to See This Spring 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z

There are jokes that are "funny" because they insert puppets into situations where we don't normally expect to see them. “The Happytime Murders”: A sad excuse for grown-up comedy 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

Critics described the original performances as consciousness-altering experiences, and looking at the puppets on display at Broadway 1602 Uptown, you believe it. What to See in New York Galleries This Week 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

To usher out the year and welcome a new one, Nicaraguans stuff a life-size puppet of an old man with firecrackers and set him ablaze at midnight. Life after wartime: Nicaragua transitions to adventure tourism 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

OF all the things we pay money to sit in a theater and watch, puppets are surely the strangest. Arts & Leisure: ?69?S.,? Shackleton Tale, Comes to BAM Next Wave Festival 2011-10-30T03:00:38Z

It's an appreciation for the fact that people in East Germany were not simply puppets but active participants in their lives. Back in the GDR: Berlin's East Germany museum 2013-03-13T12:59:21Z

Redesigning some of the original puppets and adding others, the directors and cinematographers, Sonny Laguna and Tommy Wiklund, don’t stint on the gore. Review: ‘Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich’ Releases Murderous Nazi Dolls 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

FRI-SUN Keeper talks, opportunities to feed penguins, elephants and birds, puppet shows, nature activities, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Community calendar 2012-04-11T23:15:04Z

Since its debut in 1969, the series has featured a diverse group of puppets and tackled difficult issues like incarceration, poverty and parental divorce. 16 Muppets who moved to “Sesame Street," from Ji-Young to Abby Cadabby 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z

My daughter and I are going to fun with these puppets. Instant Pot made easy by NYT food reporter and author Melissa Clark 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z

The worst of the television hosts can sometimes sound like puppets, their jaws controlled by off-stage puppeteers. Chuck Todd’s ‘Meet the Press’ debut: A straight-talking work in progress

It wasn’t working, and Mr. Hunt, we’re told, grew frustrated and tossed the puppet at Mr. Clash, a relative newcomer to “Sesame Street.” | 'Being Elmo: A Puppeteers Journey': ?Being Elmo,? About the Puppeteer Kevin Clash ? Review 2011-10-21T01:45:47Z

I would like to try out a piece of theatre where the audience help to make a puppet; it could become the main character of the show. Polly Dunbar's top 10 books that would make great puppet shows 2013-04-18T13:24:46Z

The Wind in the Willows, which tells the story of four woodland friends using singers, dancers, actors and puppets, is the Royal Opera House's first commercial transfer to the West End. Robinson to star in Willows show 2013-10-02T15:39:59Z

He has collections of Indonesian shadow puppets, hollowed birds’ eggs and African lip ornaments. One Hundred Artists Rolled Into One Man 2011-12-16T16:41:49Z

Once you know what it can do, what it’s capable of, you realize how much you can help the audience relate to this puppet.” Arts & Leisure: Steven Boyer Unleashes His Inner Demon in ?Hand to God? 2011-12-04T03:30:05Z

The puppet on the table before us, preparing to perform the last 12 hours of Moses's life in real time, does. The Table ? review 2011-08-11T12:06:26Z

He’s also turned her into a puppet, having trained her to read erotic fiction aloud for the delectation of his potential customers. Review: ‘The Handmaiden’ Explores Confinement in Rich, Erotic Textures 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

The angel is often accompanied by two ghostly figures, like puppet echoes of herself; they amplify the drama’s mystery. Review: ‘Hagoromo’ Offers More Than Dance at BAM Harvey Theater 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

Watch the expression on Groff’s face as he sidles across the stage, cradling an early, snapping hand puppet version of his truest soul mate, which tries to nibble on the front row. ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ Review: Jonathan Groff Feeds the Beast 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

This production has offered both of them the space to evolve the musical’s performance tradition, considering the sparsely written Milky White as a full character in puppet form. She’ll Have You at Moo: Milky White and the Power of Puppetry 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z

It may seem an unlikely choice for a puppet show as it has no characters or storyline as such, but I think it could work. Polly Dunbar's top 10 books that would make great puppet shows 2013-04-18T13:24:46Z

An early self-portrait photo collage shows the tall, handsomely Nordic twins against a background that includes a cathedral and a tram, elements that recur in “Nocturna Artificialia,” their first puppet animation, from 1979. Art Review: Quay Brothers Retrospective at MoMA 2012-08-10T05:34:12Z

Spitting Image created by Fluck & LawInvariably brutal and usually very vulgar sketches performed by puppets, a suitable response to the divisive Thatcher era. How Margaret Thatcher left her mark on British culture 2013-04-13T17:00:00Z

Huddled in a protective posture, but grinning maniacally through its pain, one of its arms appears to be a snake, or perhaps it’s just wearing a sock puppet. The sweet hooked rug, gone bad: How artist Hannah Epstein gives a retro craft some bite 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z

Jodie Foster directed and co-stars in "The Beaver," which features Gibson as a troubled family man trying to cope with help from an unusual friend - a beaver puppet he wears on his hand. Mel Gibson's next film to debut at Texas festival 2011-01-14T02:06:08Z

I can't get the enigmatic and terribly sad star of "Show Your Face!" out of my head, even through the fellow is a puppet without any face whatsoever. 'Show Your Face' this weekend only at MCA 2011-01-14T22:36:36Z

I was expecting a performance: theater, puppets, papier-mâché. Odyssey Works Makes Art for and About One Person 2012-10-07T05:10:06Z

Out of the mayhem emerge three “witches,” a woman and two men: American-sounding covert operatives spreading unrest and looking for a puppet to be their next tin-pot dictator. Review | The king feels more like a pawn in updated, political ‘Macbeth’ 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

The puppets are startlingly lifelike; it's hard to resist an impulse to shake their hands. The gay puppet stars of Or You Could Kiss Me 2010-10-03T20:59:00Z

Traditional puppet shows, which date to the 15th century, feature the king and his court, a white horse, a mythical snake and even a magician. The best way to see thousands of temples in central Burma: Hot-air balloon 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

This Saturday and on Dec. 21 and 27, Mr. Achtem will also give workshops after the 11 a.m. show to teach children how to make their own shadow puppets from castoff and recycled goods. Spare Times for Children for Dec. 12-18 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

But he wouldn’t be a master of anything – not sex, not puppets, not his domain, not the universe – if Lizzy Caplan didn’t make such a magic Johnson. Masters of Sex Gets Dark, Delves Deeper Into Desire 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z

Sonia is a puppet, and she would be inert without them. First Up in La MaMa’s Return: Strange, Enchanting Puppetry 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

The eight-year-olds showed an even greater bias toward their own group, giving 90 percent of these valuable items to their own puppet, four percent to the other, and six percent to the box. Kids are learning intolerance at a surprisingly young age 2014-01-31T12:45:00Z

Second place receives a fabulous soft rubbery hand puppet depicting a, well, some indeterminate aquatic creature; guesses included a shark, barracuda, alligator and dinosaur. Style Invitational Week 1443: The letters of the laws — write an acronym bill 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

The company is, however, working on a movie based on another famous puppet. Jim Henson Company to bring Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad to the big screen 2012-06-11T15:06:49Z

She's offered numerous comforts by other puppet creatures — i.e., a "doily cure." 3 late-October plays: grief, trauma, loneliness 2011-10-13T20:15:08Z

Will is a puppet, a weapon, like Dolarhyde, and all that matters is who’s pulling the strings. 'Hannibal' Recap: Caught Between Two Gods 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z

“In traditional puppet shows,” he said, “you see only the lower third of the screen, and you don’t really ever see the characters’ legs. ‘Donkey Hodie’ Adds a Fresh Face to Fred Rogers’s World. And a Mohawk. 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z

A puppet show in the first act, she says, is "about creating something that ultimately destroys you or consumes you." Crystal Pite ? no longer just a regional name ? visits On the Boards with her Kidd Pivot troupe 2011-02-14T22:38:04Z

To create the stop-motion effect, animators in Japan painstakingly shot thousands of pictures of the tiniest movements and gestures of inches-tall puppets. Jules Bass, Co-Producer of TV Holiday Staples, Is Dead at 87 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

He's playing the scene for laughs, we conclude, and we chuckle knowingly as he turns the susceptible populace into his puppets. A high-style, intermittently substantive 'Caesar' 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

This is a mystery in which the cast members of a puppet TV show called “The Happytime Gang” are murdered. Summer 2018 Movie Release Schedule 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

It uses music, dance, actors and puppets to tell the tale of a young woman who wants to soar, even though her mother’s ghost and the local prince have other ideas. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

Matt Wolf, writing in The New York Times, said the play’s puppets were “the most endearing sight on the London stage” at the time. ‘My Neighbour Totoro’ Dominates Olivier Award Nominations 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z

All the aforementioned characterizations involve puppets, which the actors handle ably. ‘Avenue Q’ remains true: Still off-color and impolitic 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z

Casting Tiny Tim as a fragile puppet is an affecting touch. A Christmas Carol ? review 2010-12-07T21:30:00Z

Especially when spun by a madman who addresses his customers through a hand puppet. Kitty’s Canteen on the Lower East Side 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

We still have a vision of China as very rigid, with officials who are like puppets. Jean-Jacques Annaud: 'People who make films are in danger every day' 2013-05-30T19:00:01Z

Pointless will perform twice, at 7 and 9 p.m., with four puppets and five puppeteers on what Davis described as a too-small, 10-foot stage. A surprise after the final performance of ‘Fetch Clay, Make Man’ at Round House

You’ll find stage performances, dragon dances, lion dances, puppet shows, tempting food and more. 3 getaways for this weekend, from Bellingham beer to Portland dragon dances 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

A Javanese shadow puppet, a holy thorn reliquary, a ceremonial ballgame belt from Mexico, a credit card — the museum is catholic enough in its tastes to contain almost anything. New book of '100 Objects' illuminates history 2011-11-17T00:26:06Z

The hall looked like a giant puppet theatre. The Tate Modern at 10 2010-05-04T07:00:00Z

Big cloth bags, long cords, a puppet, a ladder, hidden boxes, sticks, wires and harnesses. A cornucopia from Momix 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

Acting opposite Gizmo wasn’t difficult, because pretending a lifelike puppet is a live animal is no harder than pretending a woman you’ve just met has been your wife for 15 years. How we made Gremlins 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

And it is extraordinary for national grief to be triggered by the passing of a puppet. In Brazil, a parrot puppeteer’s death stirs the nation 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z

Yngvild Aspeli, director and puppet maker: This story, even though it’s an old story, it touches on these things that go beyond time. At Under the Radar, Theater That Jumps Right Off the Page 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z

Admission is free, but there are small fees for puppet crafts and T-shirt decorating. Spare Times for Children for June 26-July 2 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

The guy who came on after the prank call puppets killed CNN’s “Crossfire” just by coming onto the show and telling everyone how intellectually and morally bankrupt it was. This guy changed the world: We won’t see the likes of Jon Stewart again 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

A puppet Cobweb drops his jaw and changes in an instant from sweet to sinister. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Untold Stories – review 2013-03-17T00:05:53Z

Truss became so irked at this sort of rudeness typical of modern life that she decided to wear a glove puppet on shopping expeditions to vent her spleen. 20 reasons to be cheerful in middle age 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z

Before we get to the Flight of the Conchords or the tricky art of writing funny songs for beloved puppets to sing, we need to talk about Figwit. Magazine Preview: Bret McKenzie Meets the Muppets 2011-11-17T18:27:32Z

If anyone could get the old clan back together it would, of course, be the puppet master himself, still controlling his world on a wire. Film: A Bold Vision, Still Ahead of Its Time 2010-04-04T03:02:00Z

A colorful Muppet-like puppet made by a designer who worked on “Sesame Street” portrays the Little Prince. | 'The Little Prince': ?The Little Prince? at New Victory Theater - Review 2011-10-07T00:15:32Z

Pulling strings: Djurberg's interest in animated models goes back to her mother, who ran a puppet theatre. Artist of the week 152: Nathalie Djurberg 2011-08-25T12:06:31Z

A special Tony Award was given to the Handspring Puppet Company, based in Cape Town, South Africa, for its creation of the life-size puppets in “War Horse.” ?Book of Mormon? and ?War Horse? Win Top Tonys 2011-06-13T11:20:58Z

Six months in the planning, the puppet is modeled on the prehensile-tailed porcupine, native to South America. Quills and thrills as prodigious porcupine puppet unveiled 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

His story, told with marionettes, shadow puppets and other forms of puppetry, includes challenges like climbing a tap-dancing spider’s thread and plunging to the bottom of the sea. Spare Times for Children Listings for April 1-7 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

This Saturday, Mr. Achtem will also give the last in a series of workshops after the 11 a.m. show to teach children how to make their own shadow puppets from castoff and recycled goods. Spare Times for Children for Dec. 26-Jan. 1 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z

Then those magnificent puppets appear — the slinky cheetah, the lumbering elephant with its baby in tow, the birds fluttering above like kites. Perspective | ‘The Lion King,’ ‘Hamilton’ and ‘Wicked’ return to Broadway — and it’s the heart that sings 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

Its opening was marked by a parade of Boschian puppets on Feb. 12, attended by tens of thousands of visitors, including the Dutch king, Willem-Alexander. From Hell to Heaven in the Hometown of Bosch 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

As with mimes or clowns, puppets “can’t hold a lot of complicated thoughts and feelings.” Colossal puppets help create a monumental ‘Tempest’ by the Shakespeare Theatre Co. 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

You cover your lodging and meals, then spend four hours or so a day cutting out leather shadow puppets in Malaysia or sewing denim jackets in a Los Angeles design studio. Forget souvenir shopping; these destinations let you craft your own meaningful memento 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

The stage was covered in his signature faux-naïve chalk drawings — and puppets, giant rag dolls, primary colors, skull masks, the juxtaposition of elongated and squat figures, expressionistically bold makeup and glacial movement. Best Classical Music of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

“He would get really into one form of creation and take it to some level: stop-motion animation, puppets, musical theater, improv, regular theater,” Ms. Lee said. In Search of the Meaning of Life? Meet Me at the Monkey Bars. 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

Some street pieces I did where I'd go out and talk to people in the city, or one where my friend was a sock puppet and we talked to people. Comedian Jon Benjamin has a van...and a voice 2011-06-28T12:45:00Z

And the staging of the requisite battle scenes, despite gorgeous puppets by James Ortiz, defeats the logistical efforts of Ms. deBessonet and her team. Review: Public Works Finds the Heroism in ‘Hercules’ 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z

“King Kong,” the big-budget musical driven by its massive namesake puppet, will close Aug. 18 after less than a year on Broadway, the show’s producers announced on Tuesday. ‘King Kong’ and ‘Cher Show’ Musicals Announce Closings 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z

The puppets, glittering with color and jeweled tones, provide a spellbinding way to prove the height of Prospero’s power right there in Act 4, Scene 1. Colossal puppets help create a monumental ‘Tempest’ by the Shakespeare Theatre Co. 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

But the puppets, designed by Mr. Waage, have such distinctive personalities that the plot’s absurdities rarely intrude on our enjoyment. Review: ‘Made in China,’ With Romance, Polemics and Puppets 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z

Endowed with superpowers, the siblings Bruce and Violet set off to save the universe in Lloyd Suh’s exuberantly imaginative adventure for children, featuring live actors and whimsical puppets. Theater Listings for Feb. 14-20 2014-02-13T23:16:10Z

And while the beaming Jimmy Carter puppet that Lisa Anne Auerbach made in fourth grade is pretty amusing, “My Kid Could Do That” does also offer some deeper insights. 'My Kid Could Do That': See the childhood art of Ruscha, Opie, Aitken and others on view in L.A. 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

A brainstorming session among their characters is an aria of clowning, culminating in the creation of the animal adversaries the Booby and Otter, variations on famous characters and depicted with puppets. ‘Powerhouse,’ a Play About the Composer Raymond Scott 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

Ms. Duncan once again plays Sylvie, a little girl with a problem: The child and her family of fuzzy creatures — whimsical handmade puppets — suddenly need a new place to live. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

When he was joined by a second puppet for a duet of the sweetly melancholic “Same Drugs,” it cohered slightly more, but still approximated puppet theater. Chance the Rapper Honors Chicago, His Hometown, With Magnificent Coloring Day 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z

This Saturday is Illumination Celebration, with art activities, a family lantern-making workshop and a moonlight lantern walk through the garden — featuring giant puppets and stilt dancers — followed by an all-ages afterparty. Spare Times for Children, for Jan. 25-31 2013-01-24T22:45:09Z

Activities will include hearing traditional music and attending “The Milliner’s Daughter,” a shadow puppet play by Caroline Borderies based on a Burmese folk tale. Spare Times for Children for May 3-May 9 2013-05-02T23:06:46Z

"It was so real to me that I was making the deal with this puppet." Pioneering 'Avenue Q' celebrates 10th anniversary 2013-07-29T12:50:32Z

When the show is over, Ms. Borderies will invite children to explore her work, demonstrating how shadow puppets are made and how they move. Spare Times for Children for Dec. 19-25 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

The Saigon regime is not a puppet government, but it is a client regime whose existence is dependent upon the United States. Essay: Should We Have War Crime Trials? 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

We’re all flopping meat puppets that try and exist for 100 years. Grace Helbig's Guide to Taking Fashion Less Seriously 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

Disney plans to use drones to fly puppets over spectators. Four Things You Need To Know About Disney's Drones 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

They now use both, depending on whether they want the puppets to appear more rough around the edges or cut with more computerized precision. A Decade of Puppets in Organized Chaos 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

The puppet has no walking stick, and no puppet peach blossom trees grow. Review: In ‘Book of Mountains & Seas,’ Puppets Embark on Mythic Quests 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z

We never meet said Prince, who it seems is only a decorative and empty-headed puppet of the true rulers of the realm. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Amoral Clarity 2011-07-18T15:23:00Z

“My moms were founding members of this puppet theater at Bennington College,” one of them explains. Review | Laura Zigman’s ‘Separation Anxiety’ tackles middle-aged loneliness with a perfect mix of grief and humor 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

Minstrel dolls and puppets, with information about damaging black stereotypes and blackface, are featured, but they may also bring to mind the enduring popularity of blackface and brownface even today. The Smithsonian’s Black-History Museum Will Always Be a Failure and a Success 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

The intention is persuasive, but it is too apparent, and the inconsistent use of puppets is a muddle. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Untold Stories – review 2013-03-17T00:05:53Z

That morning menu sounds like a parent’s nightmare, but it’s a little girl’s dream in this puppet production by Bonnie Duncan, who developed the show and plays all the parts. Events for Children in NYC This Week 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

Children can also make crafts, like snake mini-masks, which will have paper party horn blowers for tongues, and paper Fantasia finger puppets. Spare Times for Children for Feb. 7-13 2014-02-07T00:13:48Z

Amal, a 10-year-old Syrian refugee puppet, appeared transfixed by the music — much like the many travelers strolling by with their suitcases appeared transfixed by the 12-foot-tall puppet suddenly towering before them. Little Amal Arrives in New York, With a Message of Hope and Humanity 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

I love the idea of a puppet show that you can wear. Polly Dunbar's top 10 books that would make great puppet shows 2013-04-18T13:24:46Z

The show even includes the wearable cheetah puppet from Broadway’s “The Lion King.” Gowns, Puppets and Sharks: 8 Cultural Sights to See This Winter 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z

But when I saw the glove puppet… that was a head-scratcher. Willem Dafoe: ‘I’ve thought about murder many times’ 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z

And this is the Clooney performance of the year: His elegance and charm find a natural home in the body of a handsome, wily fox puppet. 2009-12-28T01:20:00Z

FRI-SUN Thistle Theatre puppet show for young children, 7:30 p.m. Community calendar 2012-03-14T22:30:06Z

Tyrone starts as a gray puppet made from an actual tube sock and ends up “larger than life,” manipulated by two puppeteers. Meet America’s Favorite Satanic Sock Puppet 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

Mr. Allegretti first worked on the show as a set painter, but he was soon making and voicing puppets. Cosmo Allegretti, ‘Captain Kangaroo’ Actor and Puppeteer, Dies at 86 2013-08-08T14:04:03Z

In the five years between Swarthmore and Columbia, Tresnjak performed with dance and theater companies in Philadelphia and toured the United States and Japan in puppet theater. Hartford Stage's Darko Tresnjak seals his passion for risk with 'Kiss Me, Kate' 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

“If we focus our acting on global politics, we can change everything, and stuff,” says puppet Liv Tyler. Why films such as Bombshell aren’t hitting their right-wing media targets 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z

Tammy was brilliant with her puppets, giving each a voice and personality. Underneath all the makeup, who was the real Tammy Faye? 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z

Still, the initial sight of the lonely puppet as it reclines under snowfall is haunting. Review: Pontus Lidberg Dance, a Swirl of Choreography and Even Puppets at the Joyce Theater 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

Created by Boots Riley, left, and starring Jharrel Jerome, “I’m a Virgo” uses puppets and other practical special effects to create a fantastical world. How ‘I’m a Virgo’ Pulled Off Old-School Movie Magic 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

CI: Well they needed to get the puppets in there somehow. ArtsBeat: 'Book of Mormon' and 'War Horse' Win Big at Tonys 2011-06-13T03:23:03Z

There was no plot to the performance, and barely any choreography, but it was chance-encounter magic nonetheless: puppets made by human hands and operated by artists exchanging energy — and even eye contact — with their audience. Digital Be Damned! Welcome to Shows You Can Touch and Feel. 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z

The choice to work stage magic with elaborate puppets as horses and Robin Williams as a tiger instead of live animals is understandable. Good Boy! A Trainer?s Tony Treat 2011-06-08T18:57:12Z

A report in The New York Times noted that “the customers reacted like 5-year-olds at a puppet show.” On the Runway Blog: Jean-Louis Scherrer, Retired Couturier, Dies at 78 2013-06-20T19:11:42Z

Taymor, inspired by a four-year sojourn studying and making theater in Asia, conceived a design approach in which patrons can see both puppet and puppeteer; a sunrise as well as silk on bamboo sticks. How ‘The Lion King’ Got to Broadway and Ruled for 25 Years (So Far) 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z

Coordinating the Puppet Slam is an arts organization not normally associated with sock puppets: Washington Performing Arts. A surprise after the final performance of ‘Fetch Clay, Make Man’ at Round House

Other puppets from Henson's collection will eventually be given to the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta to create a Henson gallery there, perhaps as soon as 2014, Novell said. Henson donates original Kermit to Smithsonian 2010-08-25T17:32:00Z

But what if the musician at the heart of the story was a man who wore a giant puppet head in public? 'Frank' Riffs on the Pop Curiosity Frank Sidebottom 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

A puppet artist who works on a large scale, Ms. Skipitares uses life-size and miniature puppets, human actors, music and dance to connect ancient texts to modern times. The Week Ahead: Feb. 6 ? 12 2011-02-06T02:08:04Z

So begins the autobiography of a feral child who was raised by huge and lurid puppets.” Grab Life By The Sugar Frosted Nutsack 2012-04-11T16:53:05Z

Republicans might like to call their opponents “Schumer’s puppets,” but the truth is that he rarely twists anyone’s arms too forcefully. ‘He’s not that kind of fighter.’ Can play-by-the-rules Chuck Schumer win on Trump’s turf? 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

Part of the Just Kidding series, these interactive shows will feature puppets, colorful props — and the performers’ inimitable and well-known antics — as well as catchy pop tunes. Spare Times for Children Listings for Jan. 8-14 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

Another test will come with Summit Entertainment's "The Beaver," a low-budget project in which he'll play a depressed husband and father who begins communicating to, and through, a beaver puppet he wears on his hand. 2010-01-15T03:56:00Z

We also made 15 half-scale puppets modeled after all the other characters in the show. How ‘I’m a Virgo’ Pulled Off Old-School Movie Magic 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

“This puppet to me represents a whole new dimension of entertainment,” Mr. Register said as we visited Mr. Death backstage. Critic’s Notebook: ‘How to Train Your Dragon’ Onstage 2012-07-26T22:02:34Z

On May 4, the troupe paraded the puppets through the East Village. ArtsBeat: Video: Puppets Casting an Eye on Big Brother 2014-05-12T21:13:09Z

One woman, asked to play the boy’s school counselor, was amenable to taking off her sock to use as a therapeutic sock puppet. 'Every Brilliant Thing' approaches suicide with touching comic sincerity 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z

Both he and his wife are innately ambitious people who are not eager to let others hold the puppet or purse strings. The First Lady of the N.B.A. 2011-07-08T21:05:14Z

This time, I found the puppet, manipulated onstage by three black-clad handlers, less distracting and perplexing, perhaps in part because Ms. Opolais interacted so naturally with it. Opera Review: ‘Madama Butterfly’ Stars Kristine Opolais at the Met 2014-04-06T21:43:56Z

Another change in direction followed his service with the RAF, when he became a television screenwriter, penning episodes of the puppet show Supercar and The Avengers, among others. Martin Woodhouse obituary 2011-07-05T17:03:04Z

They were delivered by a happy-go-lucky green puppet called Nicky, controlled by designer Rick Lyon. Pioneering 'Avenue Q' celebrates 10th anniversary 2013-07-29T12:50:32Z

The costumes by Daniel Selon, who also designed the puppets, included goofy togas and fright wigs, but nothing so silly as to prevent moving characterizations from the singers, all of whom excelled. 'Young Caesar' finally conquers: Troubled 1971 opera is reborn at Disney Hall 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

And The Guardian called the puppet “a remarkable theatrical achievement.” Broadway’s Biggest Debut: King Kong 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

One episode after Bobby revealed himself as puppet master to Donnie, the United States attorney’s key informant, he loses control of him, too. ‘Billions’ Season 1, Episode 8: Bobby the Profiteer 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z

He spends a night dabbling with suicide in a hotel room, but an elderly glove puppet, discarded in a skip, appears to speak to him - at first metaphorically, then literally. SXSW 2011: The Beaver - review 2011-03-17T10:10:14Z

It was so funny because he made a bunch of puppets talk but never moved his lips! Glaciers and salmon guts: A 9-year-old’s first impression of Alaska 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

Once seen, never forgotten, Little Angel Theatre's collaboration with the RSC on Venus And Adonis even had hardened theatre critics professing a love of puppets. This week's new theatre 2011-03-05T00:07:36Z

Since the characters talk like humans, they also need a mouth that has a similar range of motion to avoid looking like “like a puppet show.” How the New Ninja Turtles Got Their 'Realistic' Look 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

Is it unfair to wonder how “Make Believe” would feel with an all-adult cast, or with puppets as the children? Review: ‘Make Believe’ Has a Cast of Children, but No Fairy Tales 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

Punch and Judy The School of Night presents this dark, live-action update of the classic puppet show; not recommended for children. L.A. theater openings, Sept. 11-18: 'Teatro Moz' and more 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

They dream up puppet shows for each other and for their wrangler, Bridget Mills, which they film with iMovie in their small dressing room. Nine Broadway Shows Feature Child Actors 2013-05-30T12:00:01Z

If you can keep it together while the Daniel Striped Tiger puppet asks, “What does assassination mean?,” congratulations on being made of stone. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

Just to clarify: This is a musical sci-fi parody somewhat reminiscent of “Plan 9 From Outer Space” and “Warp” with a few nods to the style and puppets of “Avenue Q.” 'Starship': Glee kid behind far-out Halsted production 2011-02-15T21:05:34Z

“I noticed I get in this puppet situation,” she said. This Life: For Some Social-Media Users, An Anxiety From Approval Seeking 2014-05-09T20:44:11Z

At home there would be Beethoven and Brahms, but on the set he’d be accompanying stories and puppet shows with whistles and duck calls. Percussionist Paul Hansen keeps the beat all over Seattle 2013-08-01T21:37:03Z

Why show Oswald’s mother and father having clumsy puppet sex if the audience needs binoculars to see it? Review: ‘Lee Harvey Oswald,’ an American Assassin in Puppet Form 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

"Here are my eggs," the daughter of Hollywood legend Ingrid Bergman cries to the quivering puppet. Isabella Rossellini's guide to the sex life of the wild 2011-02-06T00:04:04Z

At the urging of Frances’s mother, who was fearful that they would be captured with such a defiant marionette as they tried to outrace the Nazis, they buried the puppet in their backyard. The Saga of a World War II Ancestor of Miss Piggy, Bert and Yoda 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

Besides, it's good to be realistic: the puppet show The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik is a total joy from start to finish, but it's not King Lear. Lyn Gardner on Edinburgh star ratings 2011-08-21T20:59:02Z

The curiosities and artefacts represent an extensive survey of death across diverse cultures, from a medieval skeleton puppet to a carved wooden skull from Japan. Death, Light From The Middle East and Liliane Lijn: the weeks art shows in pictures 2012-12-20T12:00:00Z

"You try to put the form with the right story, and this one, just because you're reanimating something, there's something about moving a puppet that just works with that idea." 'Frankenweenie' joins reanimation of stop-motion 2012-10-04T14:46:17Z

Later he was evicted from his home, the Forbidden City, and went on to become puppet emperor for the Japanese, a prisoner of the Soviet union and eventually just an ordinary citizen under the communists. Doctor Who 2010-05-22T05:44:00Z

As with the human-controlled puppets in her hit musical “The Lion King” and the dreamlike sequences in her movies “Across the Universe” and the forthcoming “Tempest,” Ms. Taymor’s artistic imagination hatches to life in Arachne. ?Spider-Man? Starts to Emerge From Web of Secrecy 2010-11-23T23:22:00Z

It was a huge challenge because they’ve shot the puppets already so syncing your voice to somebody else’s performance is really quite tough. After ‘Game of Thrones,’ Nathalie Emmanuel Is Ready to Take the Lead 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

Serac has no digital footprint, and yet he appears to be the puppet master behind a global operating system that directs the lives of billions of people. "Westworld" and the fluency of a god 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z

The fashionable paradigm of the day is that we are the puppets of our neurotransmitters. Character development counts in bringing plays to life onstage 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z

A clever and oddly exciting scene mimics a thousand drug-deal-gone-bad shootouts, with felt flying and green puppet blood staining the walls. Watch List: Yahoo! Screen Introduces Shows With Puppets and a Tiny Rambo 2013-09-08T21:53:03Z

With a puppet witch who swoops through the sky, it’s a show that might be scary for small children. Review: In ‘The Woodsman,’ a Love Lost in Oz Under a Witch’s Spell 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z

The show won five Tony Awards, including best play, and was celebrated for its use of life-size puppets to depict horses. ‘War Horse’ to Close on Broadway in January 2012-09-05T22:11:28Z

“Being Elmo” is a likable documentary that tells the story of Mr. Clash’s single-minded pursuit of puppet excellence, which began when he was a teenager in Maryland. | 'Being Elmo: A Puppeteers Journey': ?Being Elmo,? About the Puppeteer Kevin Clash ? Review 2011-10-21T01:45:47Z

Because life before the Internet was dark and cruel, little girl, and people were forced to entertain themselves with sock puppets and the weekly fluctuations of Michael Sembello’s “Maniac.” REO Speedwagon will save us 2012-08-08T01:00:00Z

But it was by his voice — in cartoons for Warner Bros. and Walt Disney, in the Emmy-winning early-'50s puppet show "Time for Beany," on his records, and in his commercials — that we knew him. Satirist Stan Freberg, ad man and comic, dies at 88 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

The troupe’s director becomes the narrator, guiding the audience through the tale of a destitute wood carver who fashions a puppet out of the trunk of a tree struck by lightning. Review: ‘Pinocchio,’ the Opera, Is a Hit For a Renovated Theater 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

Coming up is a revival of Greg Carter's visually arresting "This Land: Woody Guthrie," an homage to the music and activism of the great American tunesmith Guthrie, enacted by striking, large-scale puppets. Strawberry Theatre Workshop opens season of anarchists, activism 2012-07-05T20:53:04Z

Clay Martin Puppet Theatre: A longtime local favorite, Martin uses handheld and rod puppets, marionettes, shadow puppets and children's toys to bring to life his own little world. 8 other acts to see at the Moisture Festival 2012-03-08T22:05:04Z

They seem locked into war, as if elegantly choreographed by an invisible puppet master, though who they are fighting is unclear. Artist of the week 205: Francis Upritchard 2012-08-30T11:37:22Z

Olinda, on the northeast coast of Brazil, is where Midnight Man and Day Woman hail from, although the giant puppets on show at the Burke are the work of local fashion designer Kiki Corona. '!Carnaval!' makes stop at Burke Museum 2011-10-06T21:08:05Z

“She designed puppets that went along with all of our legends,” said Wilbur-Sigo. Pioneer Square will be home to a towering welcome figure. Meet the Native artist who will carve it 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z

This interactive show will feature puppets, colorful props — and the performers’ inimitable and well-known antics — as well as catchy pop tunes. Spare Times for Children Listings for May 20-26 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

Once at the top, the puppet is slid back down across a valley on a rope, petards hanging below its feet exploding at intervals, while crowds cheer below. Remote Croatian island marks victory over pirates with Carnival cheer 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z

“The really dangerous people are the ones you can’t see. Trump is someone else’s puppet. It’s the people in the shadows you have to worry about.” Edward Norton and Thom Yorke: 'The last thing we wanted was for it to get bloody' 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

What do puppets do when they are not bringing joy to children? Makers of ‘Sesame Street’ Sue to Get Raunchy Puppet Movie to Change Its Advertising 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z

“Distribution of wealth, the police state,” he explained during the performance, “the lobbyists and their puppet masters” — “this is what this concert is about.” Cornel West: “Donald Trump is a horror many of us can’t wrap our minds around” 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

This piece at La MaMa, conceived and directed by Theodora Skipitares, features the old woman in the guise of a 10-foot-tall puppet and without her mate, and the chairs don’t go unused. A Puppet Theater Response to Ionesco in ‘The Chairs’ 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

You won’t want to take young children to see these Muppet-like hand puppets, but teenagers, parents, lonely singles, and lovers will all find something they can relate to and much to guffaw at. Balagan’s ‘Avenue Q’: puppets behaving badly | Theater review 2012-11-23T21:31:07Z

Seeing Mr. White parading in an oversize Lyndon B. Johnson head mask or assembling a giant puppet with his Tennessee buddy Mike Quinn, we appreciate the liberating, delirious joy of creativity. Movie Review: ‘Beauty Is Embarrassing,’ Directed by Neil Berkeley 2012-09-06T23:20:20Z

The first is, initially, a fablelike tale about a puppet-maker and his creation: an animated wooden puppet fully equipped with frisky playfulness, emotional needs and, increasingly, resentment. Review: 'Dark Matters' at On the Boards is spellbinding dance 2011-02-18T17:57:04Z

The goal is to design and build an “Imaginary City” consisting of puppets, lanterns and other glowing objects, which will emerge from Morningside Park in the evening on Sept. Weekend Miser: Brooklyn Book Festival Marks Seventh Year 2012-09-20T19:47:46Z

Critics complained that “using puppets was making it seem banal,” she said, or they thought “it was in bad taste.” ?Kamp,? Auschwitz Tableau, Comes to St. Ann?s Warehouse 2010-05-31T22:04:00Z

Ray's daughter, Vanessa Harryhausen, told me about how she had the puppets of the alligator from The 3 Worlds Of Gulliver and the elephant from The Valley Of Gwangi as her childhood playthings. Happy birthday, Ray Harryhausen! 2010-06-29T12:10:00Z

They need Christian as a puppet, and take advantage of his desire to be an actor. A Royal Affair: The Enlightenment Brings Sexy Back 2012-11-08T15:00:36Z

The activities will include a music-and-storytelling performance; a lion dance; a kung fu demonstration; and workshops in making shadow puppets and Year of the Dragon ceramic charms. Spare Times: For Children, for Feb. 3-9 2012-02-02T21:53:28Z

It’s assumed that he died in the first installment, after being used as a human puppet by an alien, but he managed to survive. Pop culture still fails queer people: Sanitizing LGBT romance is a tradition Hollywood can’t seem to break 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

The activities will include a lion dance, Korean drumming, a kung fu demonstration, Himalayan incense making, and workshops to create puppets, ceramic charms and lanterns. Spare Times for Children for Feb. 20-26 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

It has been modernized, musicalized, performed by puppets and adapted to Kabuki. Let It Bleed: The Perverse Influence of ‘Titus Andronicus’ 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

The two giant puppets will be rigged up to the ceiling. ‘Word painting’ artist Wayne White brings 14-foot-tall puppets to the Seattle Art Fair 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

SAT-SUN Thistle Theatre's puppet version of the fairytale, based on an Old English version of the story, 2 and 4 p.m. Community calendar 2011-09-28T21:16:04Z

Or is Paige the mastermind controlling her parents, the puppets? 'The Americans' Recap: Paige and Kimberly, Growing Up Too Fast 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

Katherine and I both studied illustration so had no prior knowledge of how to make puppets nor any formal theatre training. Polly Dunbar's top 10 books that would make great puppet shows 2013-04-18T13:24:46Z

Tragedy and comedy shared the same stage in the poems he was writing — as they do in puppet shows and slapstick vaudeville routines. Review | Charles Simic reflects on what set James Tate’s late poetry apart 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z

Gaga has been dressed as an egg, in a dress made of meat and even in an outfit of Kermit the Frog puppets sewn together — and those are three of the tamer costumes. Lady Gaga brings her ‘Joanne’ tour to the Tacoma Dome 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

But how many people saw them from an angle that made them look like distressing Soviet-era east European marionette puppets? Glastonbury 2013: celebrity photo tour 2013-06-30T11:51:08Z

Patrons are encouraged to post photos of their hand puppets on social media; a quick search for hashtag #StudioHandtoGod reveals many creations, even a dog eating a puppet after the show. These two artistic directors collaborate on the stage and in life 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

Giant puppets will play Gepetto and the story’s other adults, while actors, tied to the flies, will portray its miniature marionettes. ‘He’s All Impulse’: Making Disney’s ‘Pinocchio’ Naughty Onstage 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

Ms. McCarthy plays a police officer teamed with a new partner, who is a puppet, to solve “the brutal murders of the former cast of a beloved classic puppet television show.” Makers of ‘Sesame Street’ Sue to Get Raunchy Puppet Movie to Change Its Advertising 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z

Otherwise, the work is populated by puppets of humans, less than life-sized. The gay puppet stars of Or You Could Kiss Me 2010-10-03T20:59:00Z

He ended up redesigning all the puppets the next day, before heading home to Shelter Island, N.Y. Jules Feiffer and a ‘Hamilton’ Producer Color Outside the Lines for a New Musical 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

SAT Make a traditional sock puppet, 11 a.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2013-06-19T19:59:27Z

If it fails, Spielberg's adaptation of British stage hit War Horse set during the first world war is also out later this year – with real horses rather than giant puppets. 2011 film preview: Pirates Of The Caribbean, Terrence Malick, Tintin 2011-01-01T00:05:28Z

They are puppets with their strings attached to one another, so that one moves the next moves the next. Marie Lu: The books that have changed my life 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z

So it goes, too, with puppets caught on camera. First Up in La MaMa’s Return: Strange, Enchanting Puppetry 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

Mr. Laydu and his wife wrote and produced a children’s puppet show for French television called “Good Night, Little Ones” starting in 1962. Claude Laydu, French Actor Known for Bresson Role, Dies at 84 2011-08-10T14:59:14Z

She counters that she's fine with the Swede pulling her puppet strings, speaking aloud her fantasy narrative about her kid never seeing her. "Succession" mourns the Roy "family way" in all its tragic glory 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z

Period pastimes include Punch and Judy puppet shows, arcade games, lawn croquet and a roller disco. Friday’s Travel News and Tips 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

It will feature internationally-known artists, Indian dance lessons, a henna booth, puppet show,  face painting, Indian chai and food from many regions of India. Five things to know about Diwali (and where to celebrate in Seattle) 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

The fair, however, is suitable for all, with crafts, lawn games, family yoga, puppet performances from the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theater and opportunities to touch Madagascar hissing cockroaches and taste crickets. 9 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

Another offering this year was a puppet show — lighter fare, you’d think — that came with the caveat that it was not appropriate for children under 12. It?s Been a Gloomy Summer on New York Stages 2010-07-28T17:57:00Z

But what’s nice is that when you see a puppet, it brings out the little kid in you, and sometimes you open your heart to experience things you wouldn’t otherwise. 2010-01-08T03:16:00Z

Jason keeps a sock puppet named Tyrone fastened to his left hand. “Hand to God”: “Sesame Street” Meets “The Exorcist” 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

It is not all as seamlessly integrated as previous Pointless visions; at 2½ hours, it is a full Shakespearean sprawl, and Matt Reckeweg’s crisp shadow puppets are accents here rather than star players. Review | Women’s Voices notes: An exotic ‘Imogen’ and a down-home ‘Hound’ 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z

Wright has another telling story about his parents and their puppet theatre. Director Joe Wright: 'I go nuts if I'm idle' 2013-02-20T19:30:01Z

Perhaps she would always worry she was being used as a puppet to lend civility to an uncivil regime. Do it for the country? Or don’t do it at all? The dilemma facing artists at Trump’s inauguration. 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

Mr. Fordjour’s solo show, “Self Must Die,” at Petzel Gallery is typically elaborate, with a walk-in installation, two new painting suites, a series of sculptures and the puppet show, performed twice daily. Derek Fordjour, From Anguish to Transcendence 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z

Each puppet – or person, or character: the identity is very fluid – is propped on a pole and spotlit in the sepulchral gloom. Geoffrey Farmer: The Surgeon and the Photographer; Marcel Dzama: Puppets, Pawns and Prophets – review 2013-04-06T23:05:12Z

Items include moulds that artists used to draw the orchestra figures in Fantasia, landscapes from Snow White and the original Pinocchio puppet, who lies in a glass case, preserved in perpetuity, the Lenin of Burbank. Inside the windowless bunker where Disney stores its 'secret weapon' 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z

When the dust has settled, we may discover that Trey Parker and Matt Stone, with The Book of Mormon, South Park and this ultra-funny potty-mouthed puppet adventure, have won comedy for all time. The 50 funniest films… chosen by comedians 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z

The mortician looked at me as if nervous about what sort of puppet show I’d put on with the bodies when no one was looking, and said no, they were not hiring. Stealing from Blockbuster 2013-12-07T00:00:00Z

Unlike the puppet Pinocchio…David has no need to demonstrate emotional growth or, indeed, any sort of negativity. In Praise of Film Critic J. Hoberman 2012-01-05T16:32:38Z

With their shallow, stagelike spaces, the individual panels resemble scenes from a miniature puppet theater. Exhibitions of Medieval Biblical Masterworks 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

At more than eight minutes long, the thrash metal masterpiece posits drugs as the master and us as the puppets—in fact, the thing mimics the ever-repeating pattern of an addict. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z

“He was living with his parents and writing a puppet musical!” she said. How to Follow Your Dreams and Burst Into Song 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

But I could not imagine what was going on when a couple of soldiers manipulated a gigantic saluting soldier puppet. Music Review: A Review of the Metropolitan Opera?s ?Faust? 2011-11-30T13:23:05Z

“I really don’t care about puppets,” Oz said, under the mist of a light June rain. The Saga of a World War II Ancestor of Miss Piggy, Bert and Yoda 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

“What took me by surprise, but was welcome, was the extent to which people responded emotionally to the puppets.” Colossal puppets help create a monumental ‘Tempest’ by the Shakespeare Theatre Co. 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

In it, a traveling theater group uses a shadow puppet show, called a crankie, to tell war stories. New museum in Virginia explores other heroes of the Revolutionary War 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

Now, Mr. Chomsky is the star of a perhaps even more unlikely production: a puppet show. Noam Chomsky, Elon Musk and Ayn Rand Walk Into a Puppet Show 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

Related activities on Friday include meeting Madeline, hearing stories and making Eiffel Tower and finger puppet art projects. Spare Times for Children for July 4-10 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

“I sometimes let my student sing the song or speak and I perform holding the shadow puppets. We exchange and do different jobs,” he says. Coronavirus brings curtain down on Cambodia shadow puppet theatre 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

Really this is a puppet like no other. King Kong - review 2013-06-16T20:43:38Z

Adrian Kohler and Basil Jones, the South African founders of the Handspring Puppet Company behind War Horse, believe puppets reinvent the everyday in a powerful way. Revenge of the Muppets 2012-02-12T20:00:19Z

As the final event in the citywide festival Season of Cambodia, the troupe Wat Bo will enact this tale with six-foot-tall shadow puppets presented as leather panels carved with intricate designs. Spare Times for Children for April 26-May 2 2013-04-25T22:27:06Z

Middle-aged men such as Paramor and Lockwood are still shaping his career, but he's not just a puppet: he's a man of the world now. Pop at the pictures: When Cliff Richard ruled the charts 2012-08-23T12:28:59Z

The photos captured what appears to be a cake topped with an unusually largely and terrifying puppet. Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux wed after three-year engagement 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

The child's puppet dolls are miniatures of herself and Miss Jessel, dangled menacingly over the canopy of the big four-poster bed where the virginal new governess endures her fevered nightmares. The Turn of the Screw; Ariadne auf Naxos; Les p?cheurs de perles; Mitsuko Uchida 2010-10-09T23:07:00Z

Credit to the puppet designers Blind Summit Theater. Talking Points From a Year Onstage 2010-12-25T04:00:48Z

The children will receive storybooks, games, videos and puzzles featuring Sesame Street’s popular puppets, the Lego Foundation said on Wednesday. Lego teams up with Sesame Street to help refugee kids play 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

In the vignettes presented here, the puppeteers gracefully wield large, richly costumed puppets manipulated by three rods. Giant Magnet family day full of attractions 2011-05-12T19:27:11Z

Then it ranges far afield, with “All That Fall,” a radio play by Samuel Beckett; programs by dance and puppet companies; and the series Sounds of India. Review: A White Light Festival to Re-energize Your Inner Self 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

Chinese Theater Works will perform “Tiger Tales,” a shadow puppet show, and children from P.S. Spare Times: For Children, for Jan. 27-Feb. 2 2012-01-26T22:42:16Z

Well, except that he’s a puppet, one with strange black seams that run along his hairline, down his chin and cut temple to temple, dissecting his face into discrete quadrants. Review: ‘Anomalisa’ Pairs Charlie Kaufman and Lonely Puppets 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z

“I try to portray local stories and folklore from our community with bamboo puppets,” Iskandar said. Puppet reborn: Indonesian pulls strings to revive near-dead art form 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

The actors, who talk, sing and frolic while operating the puppets, multitask brilliantly. Can Puppets Save the World From Extinction? 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

Lightwire Theater, the show’s production company, builds puppets from recycled materials like aluminum rods, skateboard wheels, fishing rod and fabric, and defines these sculptures’ outlines and features with electroluminescent wire. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

King on Friday by tweeting a video of his jam session with the show’s puppets, a song called “The Letter B.” Watch B.B. King Jam With the Cast of 'Sesame Street' 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

But here’s the thing: each year a menagerie of puppets, operated by 400 volunteers, forms part of the mile-long cavalcade. Vampire state of mind: how to join the world's greatest Halloween parade 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

The king and Scheherazade enact the tales, along with the puppets and the Atlantic’s terrific young ensemble. Review: Sagas, Swashbuckling and Scheherazade in ‘1001 Nights’ 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

These sequences are punctuated, very briefly, with a few other images: a suspended world globe; a cartoonish dancing puppet wearing a sombrero; a disembodied hand dropping coins. ArtsBeat: After a Flap, a Work Draws Attention 2010-12-09T20:09:00Z

Watch for puppet action that was described as “miraculous” when the show played the West End. Theater Streams Make Room for Molière (and Imelda Marcos) 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

The local heritage association in Meteora said it was particularly worried that the puppet initiative could encourage a new wave of refugees to Greece. Giant Puppet Ruffles Some Feathers on a Long Walk Through Greece 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

He went on to design acres of installations: entire cities with giant puppets and arch signage. Phish’s Art Director Calls Four Shipping Containers Home 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

Viewed through this lens, I can't help but look at all picture books as potential puppet shows. Polly Dunbar's top 10 books that would make great puppet shows 2013-04-18T13:24:46Z

Also close by, the small pedestrian street where the puppets made their appearance acted as a welcome area for the public to hang out, with beer, cotton candy and loungers at the ready. A Last Taste of Summer Theater, as Paris Heads Back to Work 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

For me, who hadn’t played impresario since putting on nursery-school puppet shows for my parents, it brought up the logistical, ethical, even emotional demands that arise from presenting while writing. When a Critic Hosts the Premiere 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

Thinking about his life as a puppet, “he said to himself with great complacency: ‘How ridiculous I was when I was a puppet! What the Original “Pinocchio” Really Says About Lying 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

The moments when an anglerfish puppet glides through the audience are magical; there ought to be more of them. Review: ‘Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,’ With a Message on the Environment 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

Related: Masters of puppets: Charlie Kaufman and the subversive allure of stop-motion The main drawback is the all-encompassing, Eeyore-like totality of Michael’s unhappiness, which at times threatens to suffocate the movie. Anomalisa: Charlie Kaufman’s unique take on the mid-life crisis movie 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z

“I think that was a puppet show,” says Allen. Iconic alt-art space Machine Project launching retrospective book with a free 'extravaganza' 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

Facial expressions were limited and it was rare to see a puppet strolling across the screen. Gerry Anderson, 83, Dies; Made Futuristic Puppets 2012-12-28T06:47:23Z

The puppet was designed as part of The Walk, a traveling festival of art and hope to raise awareness of the problems faced by young migrants. Puppet Little Amal arrives in UK after journey across Europe 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

Manual Cinema, a Chicago troupe that uses shadow and light to otherworldly effect, arrives at BAM with this puppet play about what happens when Death takes some personal days. What’s New in NYC Theater 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

For several years after art school, Mr. Althamer supported himself and his young family partly by making and selling dolls and puppets. Art Review: ‘Pawel Althamer: The Neighbors’ Is at the New Museum 2014-02-13T20:22:19Z

"Traditionally, gamelan is an essential accompaniment to puppet shows, dances, feasts and ceremonies," he said in an email describing the music. Making beautiful music from recycled junk 2011-08-19T18:44:46Z

Jiminy, too, has a puppet avatar, a shiny green creature somewhat bigger than a breadbox. Review: A Wondrous ‘Pinocchio’ With That ‘Lion King’ Magic 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

The puppets are composed in a combination of profile and frontal views and the figures are embellished with floral designs and ornaments. 2010-02-03T15:30:00Z

Sept. 15, 2018: Harassment accusations take down another prominent entertainer when four different puppets accuse ventriloquist Jeff Dunham of “inappropriate touching,” “repeated confinement in a locked trunk” and “shoving his hand up our backsides.” Style Invitational Week 1260: What lies (are) ahead for 2018 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

Though presumably being a puppet says nothing about his regime. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; Ragtime; Antigone – review 2012-06-02T23:05:48Z

It also features wacky costumes, some chickens, a baby goat and a Muppet-esque puppet. Watch Kacey Musgrave's Adorable 'Biscuits' Video 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

His ingenious collaborator here is Michael Curry, the production designer who created the puppets with the director Julie Taymor for “The Lion King” on Broadway and ’s “Magic Flute” at the Metropolitan Opera. Music Review: Stravinsky?s Tales, Dunked in the Spin Cycle 2011-03-02T22:59:11Z

I lay on the floor and a mandrake-root puppet whispered something secret to me about teeth; then I was ushered out by a tree-man. Turner prize 2012 exhibition review: is this the best one yet? 2012-10-01T13:08:55Z

And the humor that came out of these puppets and dummies, and out of Mr. Fator himself, on Friday was decidedly nonthreatening. Critic’s Notebook: Terry Fator’s Comic Style Successfully Plays to the Middle 2013-07-28T20:50:43Z

Magical realism threads each episode — there are psychedelic dance parties, animation interludes, and a bubbly maelstrom of puppet chaos. Netflix's zany "Waffles + Mochi" is helping heal my eating disorder 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z

He is so deadpan he would perfect for puppet-style clowning or a puppet mime artist. Polly Dunbar's top 10 books that would make great puppet shows 2013-04-18T13:24:46Z

Have no doubt in your mind – you will be My human hand puppet and you will learn to like it… ALL play is EARNED. The dominatrix class that unchained me 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z

Perhaps it's harder to get cross with puppets. Domesday 2010-08-10T05:45:00Z

Origami Yoda is the wise finger puppet in seven funny books about middle-school kids and the “Star Wars” characters they make from school supplies and food. ‘Origami Yoda’ book series ends with a trip to the D.C. museums

Japanese New Year’s: Japanese drum, dance and puppet performances, craft vendors, 1-4 p.m. Seahawks love at the zoo, Japanese New Year’s | Community Corner 2013-01-11T21:46:29Z

Somehow or another, Gibson has turned out an Oscar-nominated hit six years after co-starring with a sock puppet, in “The Beaver.” Oscar Spotlight: Best Director and Best Picture 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

“Kevin!!!!!” employs video, puppets and action figures, as well as actors, to tell its familiar story, about a boy abandoned by his vacationing family and left to defend a suburban home from two klutzy burglars. Review: ‘Kevin!!!!!,’ a Multimedia Sendup of ‘Home Alone’ 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

He was one of the first to use soft material for puppets, which allowed more expressivity on screen. And a Frog Shall Lead Them: Henson?s Legacy 2011-08-18T20:16:26Z

SAT-SUN Thistle Theatre puppet show for young children, 1 and 3 p.m. Community calendar 2012-03-07T21:12:07Z

When I heard about the satirical puppet show “Spitting Image,” I wrote a letter to the producer. How Do You Play Margaret Thatcher? Like This 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

Oberon looms over the action as a giant mask and hand, while the lovers carry around puppet versions of themselves like substitute teddy bears. A Midsummer Night's Dream - review 2013-03-08T16:04:46Z

Why not run people for offices and knock off some of the tired old corporate puppets in the primaries, like those lovely people in the Tea Party have done with the Republicans? Jello Biafra: 'Obama owes Occupy big time' 2013-04-25T15:54:10Z

“The Magic Flute” does have elements of a vaudeville show, especially in Ms. Taymor’s production, with its fire-breathing statues and billowing puppets that dance and frolic. Opera Review: Jane Glover Conducts ‘The Magic Flute’ at the Met 2013-12-17T22:44:44Z

“I’m not a puppet, I have a brain.” Kelly Clarkson Is Nobody’s Puppet 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

The Seattle and Oregon symphonies’ solution: ask famed theater designer Michael Curry, whose work includes Broadway’s “Frozen” and “The Lion King,” to portray Stravinsky’s mythic tale using life-size puppets. Stravinsky’s ‘Persephone’ at Seattle Symphony goes big with puppets, dancers, singers and full orchestra 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

The one with the parents who ponied up the big bucks to bring you to a show featuring flashlights and sock puppets? Review: ‘The Lightning Thief,’ a Far Cry From Olympus 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

On the west side near the city’s puppet theater and museum, the curvy streets are too narrow for cars and emanate a fairytale feel, while a walk along the canals reveals the city’s maritime roots. Overnighter: L?beck?s Spires, a Quick Hop From Hamburg 2011-08-05T15:28:09Z

“We didn’t have it easy, but we had a lot of fun,” said Edy, recalling how they put on plays and puppet shows, and shared secrets, wardrobes and the same brass bed. Identical twins turn 100, reflect on life of ‘scandal’ and joy: ‘People love that we’re still together’ 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z

MoMI’s collection is large enough that curator Barbara Miller could package a traveling exhibition, which has the same narrative but uses different puppets and objects. Jim Henson's universe: Muppets, 'Sesame Street,' Fraggles and more, all in one traveling exhibition 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z

Stop-motion animation involves making minute adjustments to puppets and other objects, frame by frame, to create the illusion of movement on film. In ‘Isle of Dogs,’ Wes Anderson Applied Puppet Lessons From ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z

And while Carlos was often played for laughs, the puppets also provided surprisingly touching moments. The pure and joyous uplift of Chance the Rapper 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

Still, if the puppet conveyed less sadness, it was also less obvious, and perhaps more troubling. Review: The Searing Beauty of Kentridge’s ‘Wozzeck’ at the Met 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z

Kiev then was governed by a right-wing regime known as the Hetmanate; this was, in effect, a puppet government put in place by the Germans. Stepping Across the Ice: Teffi (1872-1952) 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

While his older brother, Dieter, played drums in jazz bands around the city, Jürgen invented dialogue for his puppets in the attic. Jürgen Flimm, Director of Festivals and Opera Houses, Dies at 81 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z

The puppet is then dressed in a headdress and sarong. Puppet reborn: Indonesian pulls strings to revive near-dead art form 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

Hughes is the Face, the puppet master whose power pervades the entire film, whether he’s onscreen or off. Warren Beatty’s Self-Sparing Embodiment of Howard Hughes 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

“It’s like a buddy movie,” Miranda said with a laugh, nodding at the puppet. ‘His Dark Materials’: Witches, Quests and Talking Animals 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

The women Toulouse-Lautrec painted step out of the paintings to the surprise of the painter, conceived as an expressive puppet designed by James Ortiz and worked by company member Ryan Lisa. Looking from the outside in, ‘Voyeur’ reimagines the life of Toulouse-Lautrec 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

Not an insult: Avenue Q puppets Rod and Lucy won a gale of crowd noise when they shouted: "Who wants to be there anyway, on the Upper West Side?" Tony awards in Times Square make for perfect street theatre 2012-06-11T13:16:53Z

The Papermoon Puppet Theater has become a staple of the global arts festival circuit, with enigmatic modernist puppets that tell stories from myth to the birth of modern Indonesia. On Java, a Creative Explosion in an Ancient City 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

The “Lonely Goatherd” number, with its cloying puppets, including an unfunny Merman one with a gaping mouth, makes the clunky category. Theater Review: ‘Inventing Mary Martin,’ With 3 Singers in the Title Role 2014-04-28T02:00:01Z

Other comics might play Oklahoma on a swanee whistle, but no one else would do so while animating a puppet of their own grandson. Harry Hill – review 2013-02-10T12:43:00Z

More recent puppets offer satirical takes on local politicos and celebrities. '!Carnaval!' makes stop at Burke Museum 2011-10-06T21:08:05Z

This season the puppet company, based in Vermont since 1970, returns to New York with two shows, including “The Seditious Conspiracy Theater Presents: A Monument to the Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera.” Review: Bread and Puppet Theater Takes Up the Cause of a Puerto Rican Nationalist 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

And also Mr. Curnutte as a man whose hereditary presumptions of power are being undermined by puppets. Review: Puppets and Power Make for a Marvelous ‘Menagerie’ 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

Once they get to Deadland the underworld, they and the creative team — including the puppet designer Elizabeth Ostler, Cerberus’s maker — unleash their cleverness. Theater Review: ‘Jasper in Deadland’ Is a Musical About the Underworld 2014-03-27T02:00:04Z

Worse, he uses all of these human puppets to buy up hundreds of Zappits, discontinued computer tablets. Stephen King’s ‘End of Watch’: Doom never felt so close, or so real 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

The puppets were held captive on a spaceship along with their human pal and forced to endure excruciatingly bad B-movies. Movie riffs making comeback from theaters to clubs 2012-08-16T18:59:14Z

The actors will operate puppets that star alongside them and have spoken about the challenge that the multitasking has presented. This week's new theatre 2013-02-23T06:00:13Z

SC: In a show where every character gets a layer or two, Bob can’t just continue to be this insufferable brown-nosing puppet. ArtsBeat: Talking ‘Mad Men’: Seeing Double 2013-05-27T13:08:42Z

Collier: If they had said, "You know, I want to do — fill in the blank — a musical with puppets," I would have said, "Well, all right, let's look into how to do that." Hoping for a breakout hit with 'Better Call Saul' 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

He then made 100 puppets, but the three partners realized that was not enough. ?Kamp,? Auschwitz Tableau, Comes to St. Ann?s Warehouse 2010-05-31T22:04:00Z

His menagerie ranged from hand puppets to fantastic figures that towered over the audience and were controlled by multiple puppeteers. Ralph Lee, Father of Puppets and a New York Parade, Dies at 87 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z

At one point, Joan says she regrets laughing as a little girl at the battling, violent puppets at the county fair. Review: ‘Mother of the Maid,’ a Lesson on Raising a Teenage Saint 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

She and the rest of the vampire gang are being moved around like very good-looking puppets by Marnie's spell which attempts to lurch the vampires into the forcefield to their true deaths. "True Blood" 4x11: The witch is dead? 2011-09-05T12:06:00Z

“What do you expect, people to entertain you like a puppet show?” The Mating Game 2010-10-22T22:20:00Z

“In a way, it’s similar to the way the original puppet was made.” How They Made the Movie References Pop in ‘Ready Player One’ 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

A central attraction will be a haunted train tunnel built by the puppet master Ralph Lee. Spare Times for Children for Oct. 24-30 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

On the show, she plays Ms. Julie, who teaches a performing arts class to five puppet pupils. The Hills Are Alive With the Sound of Julie Andrews and Henson Puppets 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

And he decided to use some puppets of his own. John Oliver swipes 'Sesame Street' format to explain prison problem 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

As anyone who saw this theatrical piece in London well knows, to experience “War Horse” onstage is to wonder how these puppets manage to etch themselves so deeply into your soul. Broadway review: Extraordinary puppets make heart of 'War Horse' beat 2011-04-15T00:43:39Z

Ms. McConnell, the author of “Deceptive Desserts: A Lady’s Guide to Baking Bad!,” plays a fictional version of herself in this cooking show, which also has spooky puppets. What’s on TV Friday: ‘The Romanoffs’ and ‘The Kindergarten Teacher’ 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

In this free puppet musical from New York City Children’s Theater, developers are razing a city park and putting up a shopping mall. Spare Times for Children for May 29-June 4 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

It includes performances of shadow puppet epics at the Winter Garden in Lower Manhattan from April 25 to 28. Looking Ahead: Culture Picks for 2013 2012-12-27T23:05:33Z

“And it was the first time that I had actually seen any of my puppets outdoors, and it seemed like they took on a kind of life outdoors that they just didn’t have inside.” Ralph Lee, Father of Puppets and a New York Parade, Dies at 87 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z

Mr. Tilders credits in particular Indonesian depictions of a Hindu monkey king, Hanuman, with helping him think through the physical relationship between the puppet and those who operate him. Broadway’s Biggest Debut: King Kong 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

She particularly liked how Ms. Simard was clutching Mrs. George’s puppet dog in one of her scenes. That New ‘Mean Girls’ Teacher Has Homework to Do 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

In one experiment, documented in “The Myths of Happiness,” Dr. Lyubomirsky asked two volunteers at a time to use hand puppets to teach a lesson about friendship to an imaginary audience of children. Happiness Inc. 2013-04-19T23:30:21Z

Happy Birthday Zoomazium: Fifth-birthday bash for indoor nature play space, with treats for zoo animals, music, puppet shows, cupcakes while supplies last, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Community Corner: Cultural Crossroads, more 2011-11-04T18:57:07Z

To fill 10 hours, the series features 75 sets and 170 puppets, some of which took eight months to build. Netflix offers fans a faithful return to ‘The Dark Crystal’ 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

“We started using ‘live cinema,’ because sometimes when you say puppet show people are like, ‘Oh, you mean like hand puppets? Like at a library?’ Don't call it a shadow puppet show. For Manual Cinema, this is the art of 'live film' 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

He yearns for control over the world but will end up at the mercy of his own research, a meat puppet like the Girlfriends he hires. In her inventive novel 'The Answers,' Catherine Lacey experiments with the components of love 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

Featuring new puppets, scenery and songs, this latest addition to the marionette theater’s repertory shows how Pascetti learns to embrace the weather with the help of a little girl named Widget and her friend Twig. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

Further weaving the digital and tactile worlds, Weitz uses only practical effects, such as props and puppets, in her videos. Julie Weitz's 'Touch Museum' tweaks time and space 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z

"That's what we do in Hollywood," the puppets sing, "and everybody knows that the sequel's never quite as good." Summer movie sequels equal profits for Hollywood studios 2014-04-02T11:05:24Z

This Sunday’s offering features Arm-of-the-Sea Theater using giant puppets to tell the story of New York City’s water supply. Spare Times for Children for Sept. 7-13 2012-09-06T21:53:37Z

“By bringing the puppets, it was like he was bringing the ‘Neighborhood’ to her,” Mr. Neville said. Fred Rogers’s Life in 5 Artifacts 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

Some of the opera’s puppets, and others from around the world, are on display at the International Museum of Marionettes. A road trip around Sicily is a journey across centuries 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z

Say what you will, but puppets are funny. 5 Comedy Shows to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

Still, without those puppets, of course, “War Horse” would probably have stayed at home. Broadway review: Extraordinary puppets make heart of 'War Horse' beat 2011-04-15T00:43:39Z

"It wasn't until my father died several years later that I thought of following in his footsteps with the puppets." Jabba The Hutt's 'left hand man' 2013-10-15T06:28:09Z

In a flowing red dress, her golden hair pulled back, the puppet has a fixed expression mixing sorrow and uncertainty. Review: Puppets Are the Stars in ‘Il Ritorno d’Ulisse’ 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

The Shop of Little Horrors at the North Wall in Oxford has nothing to do with the musical of similar name but is a new gruesome puppet piece from Pickled Image. Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2013-05-24T12:35:00Z

A skewer, planted vertically, holds it all upright, with the tentacles massed at the top, curling upward and suggesting a wild-haired puppet. At Kusina Pinoy Bistro, Eating Is a Messy, Happy Business 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

Brian Henson is the co-chair of the Jim Henson Company and its subsidiary Jim Henson's Creature Shop alongside his sister Lisa, and many of the puppet studio's creations will be featured in the planned film. Henson puppet film The Happytime Murders to feature sex and violence 2012-06-27T16:10:18Z

Day after day of manipulating puppets can lead to issues with cleanliness. 15 secrets of "Sesame Street" puppeteers 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

Julie always talked about the double event — seeing the puppet and seeing the human. How ‘The Lion King’ Got to Broadway and Ruled for 25 Years (So Far) 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z

TV puppet program, died on Tuesday following a long bout with cancer, The Jim Henson Company said. Muppets matriarch Jane Nebel Henson dies at age 78 2013-04-02T23:50:24Z

Featuring dozens of Ralph’s giant puppets and masks – and a bloke in a seven-foot-high lobster suit, borrowed from a Sam Shepard play – the Village Halloween Parade was officially spawned. Vampire state of mind: how to join the world's greatest Halloween parade 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

CANNES, France — In Mel Gibson's new movie "The Beaver" a hand puppet does most of his talking. Foster, 'Beaver' do Gibson's talking at Cannes 2011-05-17T13:48:09Z

The knock-on effect is of fewer comics scrabbling together their life savings to risk it all on their heartfelt retelling of the life of Nabokov through puppets. Edinburgh comedy notebook: TV is making comedy better ? and worse 2011-08-26T14:38:24Z

Presented by Earth Celebrations, an environmental and arts nonprofit founded by Felicia Young, Ecological City employs mobile sculpture, giant puppets and costumed performers to celebrate conservation, sustainability and solutions to climate change. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

"This sleepy old zaddy is not a puppet master. He may be wealthy and influential, but he does not control the government" or dominate anything else for that matter, Bee continued. Samantha Bee: “The Republican Party tolerates anti-Semitism, and benefits from it” 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

Kami shows a fellow puppet a memory box that her mother, who died of AIDS, left her. Six powerful ways "Sesame Street" shaped our culture, as seen in poignant new "Sunny Days" special 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z

There’s even a puppet show within the puppet show. Netflix offers fans a faithful return to ‘The Dark Crystal’ 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

Then it was a chamber opera for five players of mostly Asian or Asian-inspired instruments, plus the rod-and-stick and shadow puppets, singers and a narrator. Julius Caesar, young and gay: A groundbreaking 1971 opera gets revived for a new era 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z

By phone from Washington Ms. Stamberg said her last-minute jitters about doing live television were vanquished by a call from Daniel Striped Tiger, one of Mr. Rogers’s puppet characters. ?Mr. Rogers & Me? Recalls ?Mr. Rogers? Neighborhood? on PBS 2012-03-16T22:08:09Z

It would be an oddball one-woman show; as more and more puppets are produced from her pockets the audience would have to become the puppeteers. Polly Dunbar's top 10 books that would make great puppet shows 2013-04-18T13:24:46Z

His suffering takes place amid happy puppets in make-believe worlds singing songs about feelings — an effective contrast to his personal meltdown. Perspective | In an age of anger and outrage, the best TV shows take a different path: They’re sad. 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

Well, his puppets were wobbly, but they wore great uniforms. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Sequel to ‘The War of the Worlds’ 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. Boyer was asked to read for Jason, a boy learning to perform Bible stories through puppetry for his church, and for Tyrone, Jason’s vulgar and violent puppet alter id. Arts & Leisure: Steven Boyer Unleashes His Inner Demon in ?Hand to God? 2011-12-04T03:30:05Z

Someone put on a nitrous oxide puppet show. The Guardians: An Elegy by Sarah Manguso – review 2012-07-06T21:55:15Z

For most of the series, Logan is the gruff puppet master. Succession's 10 best moments: from Boar on the Floor to excruciating phone sex 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z

Mikhail Lobukhin might play the lovelorn puppet with too much facial emphasis, but the baffled tilt of his head and the drumming stiffness of his jumps are movingly eloquent of Petrushka's trapped soul. Bolshoi: Russian Seasons 2010-07-30T20:31:00Z

When he isn’t acting in work that appeals to him, Broadbent turns to carving life-size puppets from wood to “find my creative outlet,” he said. In ‘The Duke,’ Jim Broadbent Puts an Eccentric at the Center 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

“It’s not really a costume, and it’s not really a puppet,” said Kendall Hudson, the festival’s performance director, describing the dragon, whose components include wood, chicken wire and fabric. Spare Times for Children for Sept. 28-Oct. 4 2012-09-27T21:40:11Z

He also packs it with a comparable selection of winning ingredients: notably, outsize puppets and designs by Amy Trompetter, six excellent dancers, and five charming puppeteers. Review: The Unraveling Fantasy of John Heginbotham’s ‘Fantasque’ 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z

“This is my personal favorite puppet of the show. Her name is Big Sandy.” ‘Beetlejuice’ stars reveal the backstage secrets on Broadway 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z

The Chinese story is highly stylised, conceived as a sort of parody of one of Madame Mao's "revolutionary operas", with ballet, puppets, and that particular kind of epic gesture that belongs to the genre. I predict a riot 2011-03-05T00:07:24Z

That is a vital part of Büchner's play; but to focus so exclusively on that element is to miss the larger point that they are also history's puppets. Theatre review 2010-07-23T00:13:00Z

Cross-training is important to avoid repetitive stress syndrome, a real threat since both women are also moving with puppets. 2 veterans from 'The Lion King' opening still roar 2012-11-16T14:35:08Z

When I spoke to Day recently by phone, she was finishing an order on Amazon: a prairie-girl costume, a sickle, finger puppets. Candy and Poison 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

Classical music stole the show's finale, though, with surprise tributes from Stephen Colbert - who seemed lost at first - and the puppet Elmo from TV's "Sesame Street." Ma, Diamond, Streep receive Kennedy Center Honors 2011-12-05T14:27:10Z

Cultural traditions of 5,000 years of Chinese history including music, dance, martial arts, puppet theater, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Chinese Festival and other weekend community events 2011-05-20T19:51:04Z

Presented by Jane Catherine Shaw, curator of La MaMa Puppet Slam, this puppet play invites children to accompany a child named Cassie Day on her adventures into outer space and back. Spare Times for Children for March 20-26 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Dubrow's extensive collection of Howdy treasures includes an original Howdy Doody puppet, which hosts the special and the new wraparounds, cuing the audience to the inevitable screwups and other curiosities embedded in each show. It's 'Howdy Doody' Time again with July 4th TV marathon 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

We want leaders democratically elected, Not compelled to dance like puppets on a string. Style Invitational Week 1361: 2020 vision: The year in preview 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

This wily group of recent Carnegie-Mellon University graduates tells folksy tales with their singing, puppets and shadow screens, employing common items like flashlights, crates and burlap sacks while conjuring dozens of characters. Theater Review: ‘The Old Man and the Old Moon’ at the Gym at Judson 2012-10-09T22:59:41Z

Among his regular guests was Rowlf, a dog puppet created and performed by a young Jim Henson. Jimmy Dean, Folksy Singer and Businesman, Dies at 81 2010-06-15T03:42:00Z

For the third show, he asked her to handle the feather duster that served as a chicken puppet. Behind every great D.C. sports mascot, there’s a woman, with a bottle of vodka 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

The children's show is introducing a new puppet character named Lily for special on Sunday that talks to children about poverty and hunger. New 'Sesame Street' Muppet for special on hunger 2011-10-05T16:34:13Z

His act with Hector, a long-beaked puppet, killed in the Rio Grande Valley. She’s traveled 16 years with the circus, but she is not a performer. She’s a nun. 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

Rahmanian’s new project is the shadow puppet production “Feathers of Fire,” which bills itself as the largest shadow play ever performed. From ancient Persian poetry rises 'Feathers of Fire,' billed as largest shadow-theater play 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

“Some people treat you like puppets,” she said. ‘Liaison’: Vincent Cassel and Eva Green Simmer as Global Tensions Boil 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z

The puppet and much of the show’s spectacle delighted critics and audiences during the “Kong” world premiere in Melbourne, but the script and score received harsher reviews. John Rando in Talks to Direct 'King Kong' on Broadway 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z

The original Thunderbirds puppets of Lady Penelope Parker with FAB 1 Rolls Royce on display in 2002 Featuring the Tracy family's emergency rescue service and their catchphrase "Thunderbirds are go!" Parker back for new Thunderbirds 2013-09-30T10:39:46Z

And the puppets were going to play the animals. Stephen Sondheim, Rob Marshall and Meryl Streep on 'Into the Woods' 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

However, as long as his primary goal is to avoid looking bad, he will sulk and agonize as puppet strings to get the behavior he wants from you. Carolyn Hax: Intimate relationships can’t be all about one partner’s satisfaction 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

Kawamoto was impressed by the way Trnka "was able to tell a story in a poetic style through the use of puppets". Kihachiro Kawamoto obituary 2010-09-05T16:44:00Z

As a more-than-full-time TV watcher I have a tremendous fondness and respect for the Public Broadcasting Service — and for the public-TV ecosystem that surrounds it — that aren’t based on grumpy butlers or colorful puppets. PBS Is Still TV’s Best Path to Better Citizenship 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

At the same time, Christine, who volunteers at a children’s hospital, does puppet shows for the young patients—but, as her own troubles overwhelm her, the shows take on a psychodramatic and confessional air. Why Dramatize an On-Air Suicide? 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

During this interim, their charming fantasy can presumably be preserved that Elmo isn't really a puppet but a living, breathing little red monster. Questions about Elmo young fans won't be asking 2012-11-14T18:09:08Z

“This wasn’t on my radar — doing a big musical with a massive puppet — but as soon as I saw what they’d built, I couldn’t turn it down,” Mr. Thorne, the writer, said. Four Musicals on Three Continents: An Australian Company’s Big Bet 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z

“He’s the puppet master in all this,” the source said. Hollywood comes to the high court for Johnny Depp face-off 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z

Of course, it can't be as simple as that; the general turns out to be a puppet, and so, for a while, are the men who intend to destroy him. 'The Expendables': Heavy on action, testosterone, brutality 2010-08-10T22:56:00Z

"That puppet cost more than all the videos on my last album, bar one, for Give Me Love." Ed Sheeran: 'Elton's not my manager' 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

But the puppets convince brilliantly, even when their skilled operators are visible. Spare Times for Children for Jan. 18-24 2013-01-17T23:15:26Z

Granted, she walks herself into that obstacle course, signing up to be used by her family as ATN's "sock puppet girl-boss president." "Succession" presents the "Chiantishire" dog show, starring the well-bred Roys 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z

The puppet said he was excited for the new season to begin and to share his experiences with viewers. How the new season of Sesame Street stands up against racial hatred 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

Tyrone, as the puppet is called, begins blurting out the kinds of subversive thoughts that the seemingly docile, naïve Jason would never dare to verbalize. Theater Review: ?Hand to God,? by Robert Askins, at Ensemble Studio Theater 2011-11-12T00:45:29Z

“That’s Riley; she loves all the technical backstage stuff,” Ms. Andrews said, pointing to an androgynous puppet sporting shortish red hair and round glasses. The Hills Are Alive With the Sound of Julie Andrews and Henson Puppets 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

Brazilian music, dancing, giant puppets, mask making and carnival crafts to celebrate opening of new exhibit of carnival celebrations around the world, noon-4 p.m. Community Corner: '!Carnaval! exhibit at Burke Museum 2011-09-30T19:25:08Z

She hid behind her makeup much in the way she had hidden behind her puppets. Underneath all the makeup, who was the real Tammy Faye? 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z

Shortly thereafter the puppet begins, er, badgering Walter. | 'The Beaver': Leave It to the Beaver to Do All the Talking 2011-05-06T07:53:01Z

Trudy, however, is too busy to worry about festive puppets and ugly sweaters. Finding More Than Humbug in Scrooge and Company 2020-12-13T05:00:00Z

The larger installation, “Black Box,” is a dark yet almost lyrical indictment of colonialism, with wrenching use made of drawings, vintage film of white hunters and of mechanized puppets that move with eerie resonance. Art Review | 'William Kentridge: Five Themes': Anger and Angst, Explored With Animation 2010-02-25T22:41:00Z

Matthews lent his voice to the indestructible puppet hero, who defended the Earth in Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, in 1967 and '68. Captain Scarlet voice actor dies 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z

"The Muppets," a movie that returns Kermit, Miss Piggy and their puppet friends to the big screen for the first time in 12 years, finished in second place with $29.5 million over three days. "Twilight" lights up box offices for 2nd week 2011-11-27T17:17:17Z

The Italian Renaissance dreamed up the character of Pulcinella, a hunchbacked, hook-nosed wife beater, who is still around today as the character of Punch in the Punch and Judy puppet shows. A Brief History of Slapstick Humor 2010-10-18T08:00:00Z

The audience at their “Christmas Tentacular,” which comes to Elsewhere’s main space on Friday, can expect a colorful, whimsical affair, complete with covers of holiday tunes, puppets and festive sets. 4 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

Though all the puppets were made by Mr. Sanko, Mr. Ward explained, each works a little differently and some can do things that the others can’t. Arts & Leisure: ?69?S.,? Shackleton Tale, Comes to BAM Next Wave Festival 2011-10-30T03:00:38Z

And it populates the story of the home's missing owner with makeshift puppets formed from standing lamps and picture frames. Making a spectacle: design magic at the Edinburgh fringe 2010-08-23T13:44:00Z

A little puppet pain goes a long way. Review: In Anomalisa, Puppets Have Problems Too 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

“We have a lot of different programs: a play-reading series, a puppet series, the La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival, the Coffeehouse Chronicles series, and each of them has its own person running it,” she continued. To Preserve La MaMa’s Legacy, a Shift in Leadership Styles 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z

To avoid being dirtied, Linz says performers and production members try to pick up the puppets by the scruff of their necks. 15 secrets of "Sesame Street" puppeteers 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

A violent mastiff is evoked through a massive puppet with three shadowy handlers. The Orphan of Zhao – review 2012-11-09T01:02:50Z

According to “The Happytime Murders,” a movie starring Melissa McCarthy in which puppets and humans inhabit the same world, the lovable characters get involved in sex, drugs and even murder. Makers of ‘Sesame Street’ Sue to Get Raunchy Puppet Movie to Change Its Advertising 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z

Kawaguchi suggests that he is not so different from that puppet. An ode to an avant-garde Japanese dance legend, performed with body and soul 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z

"The Beaver" is directed by Jodie Foster and stars Gibson as a troubled family man trying to cope with help from an unusual friend - a beaver puppet he wears on his hand. Mel Gibson's film `The Beaver' due out in March 2010-12-16T16:31:04Z

"A Gentleman's Guide" might be the closest thing to a puppet show cast with flesh-and-blood human beings. 'A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder' kills it at the Ahmanson 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

Michael Philippou: On the thematic side, that kangaroo was a puppet that like 10 people were controlling. "Talk to Me" directors on the film's most shocking scene 2023-08-05T04:00:00Z

SAT-SUN Japanese cultural and educational activities for all ages including martial-arts demonstrations, performing arts on stage, exhibits, food vendors, puppet shows, art exhibits, workshops including origami, taiko drumming, calligraphy, 10 a.m.- Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z

They assigned 84 percent of the unwanted items to the outsider puppet; the girls allocated only 60 percent, and put far more of the items into the neutral box. Kids are learning intolerance at a surprisingly young age 2014-01-31T12:45:00Z

It's so visual as he's standing over you, puppet mastering you. Salon gets Goopy to delve into the wacky, vulva-friendly world of Gwyneth Paltrow's lifestyle brand 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z

“The Secret Life of Scissors” blends display styles of the 19th-century hardware store, puppet theater and a cabinet of curiosities. How Elegant, How Lethal 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z

They feel more like puppets rather than human beings with natural instincts and lucid senses. "Dark Stranger" a serviceable Woody Allen comedy 2010-05-17T04:43:00Z

Melanie slips on her mother's wedding dress and slides immediately into orphanhood and the Gothic world of Uncle Phillip, who wants her for one of his giant puppets. Kate Clanchy's top 10 coming-of-age novels 2013-05-22T09:52:36Z

ABC said Thursday it's canceling the show, along with crime romp "Castle" and puppet comedy "The Muppets." ABC is canceling the country music drama series "Nashville" after four seasons 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

He would pull the items out and make them into puppets which had conversations with each other, with no regard for the feelings of the owner of the bag. Robin Williams appreciation by Nigel Planer: 'He wouldn't be happy until the furniture was laughing' 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z

There are bands, puppets, jugglers, stilt-walkers, staggering amounts of food and drink. In ‘Tom Stoppard,’ Hermione Lee Takes On a New Challenge: a Living Subject 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z

In drop-in workshops from 10:45 to 11:30 a.m. and 2:15 to 1:45 p.m., they’ll make finger puppets in the form of bats. Spare Times for Children for Oct. 31-Nov. 6 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

On Tuesday, its performers were easy to spot from afar, with a giant white puppet, known as Justice, that towered above the surrounding protesters. For France’s Protesters, the Streets Are the Ultimate Stage 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z

Let's take just the audio track of the scene from "The Godfather" where Michael Corleone kills Sollozzo in the Italian restaurant and also shoots Sterling Hayden, and build it for puppets. ArtsBeat: Apocalypse Soon: Tom Hanks Discusses His Web Series 'Electric City' 2012-07-16T12:00:46Z

My son could play in the puppet theater or build with magnetic tiles. Perspective | Covid-19 took away our family’s second home: The library 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z

Above all, “she is also 100 percent puppet,” as the narrator, a mischievous masked fox in shorts and red tails, informs us. ‘The Immortal Jellyfish Girl’ Review: A 26th-Century Love Story 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z

Works from about a dozen contemporary artists who experiment with storytelling through their art by incorporating puppets, fog and music will be on view at this exhibition. Glastonbury in England and Dark Mofo in Tasmania: Global Arts Guide 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

Hogenson told me that when she screens the film at festivals, people in the audience initially smile at the funny puppets, but then their faces noticeably drop when they realize it’s a film about cancer. Life with Cancer in “Dani” 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

One warning: While puppets feature prominently and the story is decidedly G rated, the show does not seem especially intended for children. | 'Golem': ?Golem? at La MaMa E.T.C. - Review 2011-11-29T23:23:49Z

Jane Henson, the former wife of Muppets creator Jim Henson who was influential in the creation of the popular US TV puppet program, died on Tuesday following a long bout with cancer. The Muppets' puppet designer Jane Henson dies 2013-04-02T23:48:12Z

Large puppets, held by the actors, stand in for the characters’ younger, cleaner selves. | ‘Blood Potato’: James McManus’s ‘Blood Potato,’ by Apothecary Theater Company 2012-11-14T01:00:25Z

Nugget of wisdom “Have you thought about just doing the whole play with puppets?” What a Group of Disciples Discovered Along the Way 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

The young puppets in jaunty swimming trunks, although they magically execute flashy dives and swim through air, are, if anything, more poignant still. Or You Could Kiss Me ? review 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z

For much of her career, her great subject was the former Yugoslavia’s unacknowledged role in the Holocaust, the butchery of the fascist Ustasha puppet state established by the Nazis. In Gory, Majestic Fiction, a Hard Look at the Holocaust’s Stubborn Silences 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

Rogers was kind of the opposite: an essentially feline temperament — one of his main puppet alter egos was the exquisitely timid Daniel Striped Tiger — and one of the few introverts to become a mass-media celebrity. ‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’ Review: You Are My Friend 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z

Even the puppets in Tevye’s invented dream hold their hands like that, with their grotesquely long fingers exaggerating the effect. In ‘Fiddler,’ a Balancing Act to Rival Tevye’s 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

The story is about a wooden puppet, Pinocchio, who longs to become a living boy and the trials he undergoes along the way. Dickie Jones, child cowboy who voiced Pinocchio in Disney film, dies at 87

Inside a warehouse, groups of 12 face unleashed spirits and other unnerving phenomena in the form of puppets, projections, special effects, illusions and masked or unmasked actors. The 99-Seat-Beat: Renew old friendships with 'A Love Affair' or 'Resolving Hedda' 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

"The puppets were a perfect way to get a generation that had grown up scoffing at musicals to find a way to like them," Lopez says. Pioneering 'Avenue Q' celebrates 10th anniversary 2013-07-29T12:50:32Z

An abstract puppet representing the physicist Stephen Hawking marvels over the universe. A Puppet Theater Response to Ionesco in ‘The Chairs’ 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

The show also features a raft of magicians and dancers, with the week of events bringing markets, puppet shows, mermaids and giant insects to Margate's public spaces. This week's new events 2010-08-13T23:06:00Z

It didn’t get much more scandalous than the line uttered by Duggie, a stoner puppet. Critic’s Notebook: Terry Fator’s Comic Style Successfully Plays to the Middle 2013-07-28T20:50:43Z

While the filmmakers wanted the scenes to look bustling, the challenge was creating crowds without spending too much time and resources makinghundreds of background puppets. ‘Kubo and the Two Strings’ Blends Animation and Origami 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

In an amusing touch, he’s portrayed by a human actor, Zach Kononov, not a puppet, adding a layer of absurdity to this already absurd conceit. Review: The Golden Girls, Back Again as Wisecracking Puppets 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

Arm-of-the-Sea Theater will also present “City That Drinks the Mountain Sky: Part 2,” a play using large-scale puppets to illustrate the latest challenges to New York’s water supply. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

It mixes puppet theater, video, a string quartet and a nest of electric instruments. Review: ‘Nufonia Must Fall’ Shares the Heart of Kid Koala’s Robot Tale 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

Created by Marina Montefusco and presented by Le Clan des Songes, this intimate, wordless puppet play features a little man in baggy pants and a hat, carrying a satchel. Spare Times for Children for April 26-May 2 2013-04-25T22:27:06Z

Although The Beaver, which Foster directs, also stars herself and Mel Gibson, it's the elderly puppet who resides on the end of Gibson's arm for most of the movie who steals the show. 'I'm the Beaver' 2011-06-17T07:30:51Z

In the play, they used a puppet of a dead child, blackened, shrivelled, terrible. War Horse: adapt and survive 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z

A few months after what became known as the Stonewall Riots, America met a couple of puppets named Bert and Ernie. Opinion: Bert and Ernie, You’re the One… 2013-06-28T18:56:25Z

Ms. Perry will appear as herself, and as the girlfriend of the bartender Moe, in a live-action segment that will feature puppet versions of the show’s characters, Entertainment Weekly reported on its Web site. Katy Perry Finds a Home in Springfield 2010-09-26T18:23:00Z

The show, produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company, was a crowd-pleaser in London partly thanks to featuring several giant, fantastical puppets — including a furry Catbus that is part motor vehicle, part feline. ‘Prima Facie’ and ‘My Neighbour Totoro’ Win Big at the Olivier Awards 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

One of the fans took the microphone with a Muppet-style puppet, which she held up to the microphone. Doctor Who season nine unveiled at San Diego Comic-Con 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

She referred both to its subject — hopeless depression and a man who struggles through it with the help of a beaver hand puppet — and to the turmoil surrounding its lead actor, Mel Gibson. When Art Imitates an Actor?s Troubled Life 2011-03-17T23:17:23Z

In one episode we see his alter ego Daniel Striped Tiger, the shy feline with a strong resemblance to a glove puppet, wondering aloud if he’s too tame, or “a mistake.” ‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor?’ Review: Charm and Change 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

Saturday, when the Northwest Puppet Theater performs a show combining "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" and a Parisian puppet play about a mischievous clown. Bloedel Reserve hosts July performance series 2011-07-14T19:43:08Z

A puppet show, “Fly Away,” is performed twice daily. Derek Fordjour, From Anguish to Transcendence 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z

There’s footage of Ron pulping Russell in a boxing ring, Ron getting pied, Russell getting made into a hideous puppet. Perspective | ‘The Sparks Brothers’ digs into the cult of the rock duo. A deeper dive is even more fulfilling. 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

Waffle House is currently investigating after employees were recorded pouring food on a passed-out customer and then propping him up and using him like a puppet, video shared with WSB-TV shows. Waffle House employee recorded pouring food on passed out customer, using him as puppet 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

And we saw string puppets on sale everywhere — at temple sites, in markets and on the street. The best way to see thousands of temples in central Burma: Hot-air balloon 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

It only strengthens when he sets up a tiny, beautifully illuminated toy theater and enacts a deliciously comic version of Kafka’s tale with miniature puppets. Review: Kafka With Puppets, Ghost Light and Shadows 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

Allusions to English literature — “Lear,” “Tom Jones” — give way to a shot of the mouse puppet Topo Gigio on Italian TV. Review: ‘Trust’ Is Flashy but Ephemeral 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

Grandma, meanwhile, fascinates young Michael with her old-world mannerisms and her witchy association with tarot cards, scary puppets and haunting tales. Michael Chabon Returns With a Searching Family Saga 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z

But the puppets, when they did appear, were spectacular. “Firebird” at Wolf Trap proves long on statement, short on puppets 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z

The exhibition also offers an illustration of how shadow puppet traditions varied within the region. 2010-02-03T15:30:00Z

In the series’ wittily perverse take on the circle of life, these machines keep human bodies — Anderson’s included — imprisoned in goo-filled vats, using the energy from these meat puppets to power the Matrix. ‘The Matrix Resurrections’ Review: Slipping Through Dreamland (Again) 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

The film is punctuated by humorous moments early on, but the persona of the beaver puppet eventually takes over Black's life in a disturbing way and forces him to battle his demons. "Beaver" maker Jodie Foster sees more directing ahead 2011-05-02T17:34:03Z

“Women’s rights and teachers’ rights and puppet rights and ‘Hamilton’ lottery rights,” she said, referring to the still-hot Broadway ticket. Everyone's a little bit political: 'Avenue Q' puppets stage their own Clinton-Trump debate 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

Amélie's childhood losses — first a beloved goldfish, later, in a freak accident, her stern and overanxious mother — are enacted with puppets. 'Amélie's' magical bread crumbs lead to storybook ending in musical's Berkeley premiere 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

“The Seeker,” a female dancer depicting the Prince Ivan-like hero of the folk tale, weaves in and around the puppets. Here’s how Ted van Griethuysen winds down: Playing all the parts in ‘Hamlet’ 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

Some of the puppet show scenes need to be more pointed, and the play assumes considerable knowledge of the Bible. The Cardinals – review 2013-01-15T18:17:53Z

The characters in my play, like abandoned puppets, are ready for me to bring them to life again. How to write a novel 2012-10-29T08:00:00Z

A world premiere, a Tony Award winner and a Japanese puppet are scheduled for the Guggenheim Museum’s Works & Process series, organizers announced Monday. Guggenheim's Works & Process Series to Offer Dancing, Singing and More 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z

Pinocchio Family-friendly retelling of the tale of the wooden puppet who dreamed of being a real boy; recommended for ages 4 and up. L.A. theater openings, Feb. 7-14: Bernadette Peters and more 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

Her exes, including a puppeteer who is shown in an amusing flashback bringing his puppet into bed with Ally as a third party, are a mostly pathetic lot. | 'What?s Your Number?': ?What?s Your Number?? With Anna Faris - Review 2011-09-30T04:23:03Z

However, "This Land" features the same striking papier-mâché puppets of rural Americans in the Dust Bowl era, their faces creased and weather-beaten from the hard climes and times they've endured, their faces static yet expressive. Seattle troupe brings back Woody Guthrie tribute, with marionettes and song 2012-09-19T17:56:03Z

Q: You first worked with the Henson company when they created the puppets for "Sarah Marshall." A Minute With: Jason Segel on Muppets and puppets 2011-11-16T14:52:15Z

Branch library programs will include puppet shows, storytelling and magic shows. Summer reading programs abound at Seattle-area libraries 2011-06-17T21:31:07Z

"Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood" will feature the son of Roger's puppet "Tiger," as well as other beloved characters from the original PBS show. Pop Torn: 10 pieces of cultural ambivalence 2011-08-06T12:01:00Z

The event will feature puppets performing to a suite of music based on the score for the original National Theatre production of the play. Composer Tavener to mix with Pet Shop Boys at BBC Proms festival 2014-04-24T18:53:12Z

Divided into three sections, "Surviving Burbank," "Beautifying Burbank" and "Beyond Burbank," "Tim Burton" brings together more than 700 drawings, paintings, photographs, film and video works, storyboards, puppets, concept art, costumes and other movie memorabilia. Tim Burton is happy to share his nightmares 2011-06-01T15:46:10Z

And yet others were sophisticated stop-action animations created using small wire and papier-mâché puppets, which Shiryaev would manipulate thousands of times to faithfully reproduce choreography. Ghosts of ‘Nutcracker’ Past, Preserved on Film 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

Many Pointless company members live together and near each other in the District’s Petworth neighborhood, and the puppets are designed and assembled in the basement of Kalil’s own house there. Perspective | Pointless Theatre looks inspirationally to the past, and thrillingly sees the future 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

Alas, the puppets get lost in transit, so the cardinals must jump into the fray to enact famous scenes from the Old and New Testaments. ‘The Cardinals’ at the Public Theater 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

Featuring giant puppets and festive music, it’s a rare chance to see live camels stroll down Fifth Avenue. Events for Children in NYC This Week 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

What seemed to confuse Ebert and his contemporaries was that, in their estimation, puppets are kid’s stuff. "The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance": A seductive fantasy very relevant to our reality 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

A small, white-faced, rosy cheeked, bow-tie sporting puppet – clown-like, but not quite ready for the circus, sometimes riding a bike, but always, always terrifying. Scary toddlers and super creeps – helicopter parenting and the rise of 'kindergarten horror' 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

There are at least 30 carriages, theatrical re-enactments, dancers, musicians, jugglers, street performers, royal pages, giant puppets and many other entertaining characters. In Transit Blog: Madrid to Celebrate Three Kings, and the Gift of Innocence 2012-01-01T11:00:41Z

“St. George & the Friendly Dragon,” a giant puppet pageant featuring a 35-foot-long creature, features a more enlightened and peaceful ending than the traditional St. George story. Spare Times for Children for April 25-May 1 2014-04-24T22:19:01Z

But watching Oliver sing his heart out on the steps of a fake Manhattan brownstone makes us wish puppets would be a part of "Last Week Tonight" every week. John Oliver swipes 'Sesame Street' format to explain prison problem 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z

Even when the prosecutor Pinscher encounters a prisoner on his way to the guillotine, he is driven, like a puppet "jigging from one foot to the other in his excitement" to demand further punishment. Rereading: Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin 2011-01-07T11:40:24Z

Children can also make their own puppets, as well as colorful lantern designs and folded-paper decorations. Spare Times for Children for Sept. 21-27 2012-09-20T21:20:45Z

For his part, McCollum, whose Broadway credits include producing "The Drowsy Chaperone" and "Rent," was amazed that he had found himself earnestly discussing the show with the squeaky-voiced Nicky, not the puppet controller Lyon. Pioneering 'Avenue Q' celebrates 10th anniversary 2013-07-29T12:50:32Z

That’s right, the puppet is 100 million percent in love with Emily, so much so that he wants to get a dog. The Bachelorette Watch: Let's Czech Out Prague 2012-06-26T12:30:34Z

Twelve Handspring craftsmen created puppets durable enough to last 1,000 performances. South African puppeteers win Tony 2011-05-03T17:05:11Z

The National Theater production features life-size puppets as the horses, maneuvered by multiple actors, and requiring a relatively big theater stage like the Beaumont. Lincoln Center to Stage an Almod?var Musical 2010-02-19T04:42:00Z

One of Spitting Image's Margaret Thatcher puppets: 'As she became more strident, the puppet became more manic and manly.' Margaret Thatcher and Spitting Image: we had no idea we would be joined at the hip 2013-04-17T19:00:01Z

"We know that we cannot catch HIV just by being your friends," one of the puppets responds. Six powerful ways "Sesame Street" shaped our culture, as seen in poignant new "Sunny Days" special 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z

"Puppets and actors work seamlessly together to bring life to the puppets and expand the emotional and physical possibilities of the actors," he said. 'Warhorse' director brings puppets to Spoleto 2013-06-01T14:35:08Z

As in the best puppet theater, the performers who give voice to their characters and manipulate the puppets do so with such seamless grace that we absorb the story with minimal distraction. Review: ‘Made in China,’ With Romance, Polemics and Puppets 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z

Just as his character relies on his puppets to say the things that he cannot, Mr. Carrey is using the show as a vehicle to express urgent feelings that he can’t otherwise get across. A Darker, Deeper Jim Carrey Returns to TV With ‘Kidding’ 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

He crouched behind sets to command the hand puppets Bunny Rabbit and Mr. Moose, who were provocateurs to Mr. Keeshan’s straight man. Cosmo Allegretti, ‘Captain Kangaroo’ Actor and Puppeteer, Dies at 86 2013-08-08T14:04:03Z

Here are a few of the funniest, strangest and most heartwarming moments shared between the puppets and their celebrity friends. 11 of the Most Memorable Celebrity Guests on 'Sesame Street' 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

This world’s puppet master pointedly goes unseen, meaning that the crystal-clear 3-D effects function more to set a mood of unreality. ‘The Bubble,’ Arch Oboler’s 1966 Sci-Fi Film 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z

Rather than industrial motifs, the materials are transformed into a homespun dollhouse, a child’s chair and vaguely figurative forms suggesting giant rag dolls and gargantuan puppets. Marisa Merz retrospective at the Hammer gives an overlooked female artist her due 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z

After the puppet show, I untangled our bikes from the lamppost where I had locked them. “Gimme Shelter” in Central Park 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z

To interview top politicians, there’s a “political analyst” who is actually a puppet named Chester Missing, delivering lines like, “The ‘new South Africa’ is apartheid without the guilt.” Black Comedians in South Africa Put Power in the Punch Lines 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

Soon a woman dressed as a monarch butterfly arrives, enormous puppet wings fluttering beside her. Part circus, part technology trade show, Cirque du Soleil's Mexico-themed 'Luzia' opens in L.A. 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z

Now if I keep relentlessly hitting him with my puppet, am I really being helpful? Jon Stewart and Robert Smigel Craft a Comedy Benefit at a Polarized Moment 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z

ABC is also reviving "The Muppets" — the puppet characters whose roots stretch back to the 1950s — and "Uncle Buck," an adaptation of the 1989 feature comedy. Comedy no longer central to TV networks' prime-time programming 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z

Using templates, children will make paper puppets of bullfrogs, raccoons and peregrine falcons. Spare Times: For Children, for Dec. 30-Jan. 5 2011-12-29T22:23:48Z

An interactive musical by Joe Purdy, it includes puppets created by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop and sensory effects that permeate the theater. Spare Times for Children for April 4-10 2014-04-03T22:56:28Z

To cope with his illness, Black begins to communicate with others by using a beaver hand puppet. "Beaver" maker Jodie Foster sees more directing ahead 2011-05-02T17:34:03Z

The King was half man, half puppet, with the head of the baritone Kyle Pfortmiller, who sang well, visible above a puppet that was manipulated by a man standing behind him. Music Review: From Wily House Cat to Lord of the Manor 2010-10-03T22:17:00Z

On screen, Mr Pickles and his puppet friend Uke-Larry sing songs about friendship in the service of a $100m family business that also employs his father and sister. Michel Gondry: 'I wanted to bring out Jim Carrey's sadness' 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z

She described God as a puppet master of sorts, sitting in the heavens. An Old Master’s Song for the Nation That Broke His Heart 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z

As a kid, Ursu liked reading, especially fairy tales, and playing Star Wars and putting on puppet shows with her older brother. ‘Troubled girls’ are the true heroines of Anne Ursu’s new novel 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z

On a broader note: why are puppet characters in commercials so incredibly creepy, so hideous and unappealing? Puppets in adverts? String 'em up 2010-07-14T10:44:00Z

Mr. D’Ambrosi has said he got the idea from an adult actress he has worked with who has Down syndrome and used to carry a puppet as an anxiety-controlling device. | ?Bong Bong Bong Against the Wall, Ting Ting Ting in Our Heads?: Children and Their ?Thems? 2010-10-21T21:29:00Z

We have so much fun making the puppets; it's almost the best bit. Polly Dunbar's top 10 books that would make great puppet shows 2013-04-18T13:24:46Z

Was that more damaging than Spitting Image's TV puppet version of a grey bloke eating peas? Nick Clegg as a cartoon figure - it's fun but does it really hurt? 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z

And he agreed to do the poster and said, "But I want to do everything — I'd like to design your set and puppets." 'Pee-wee's Playhouse' redux: Bonus talk with Paul Reubens 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

Honoring the new CD “Shababaland,” this event will feature the Shababa Mamas, the children’s group the Miracle Makers, the lovable sloth puppet Coco and a new mystery puppet. Spare Times: For Children, for Feb. 3-9 2012-02-02T21:53:28Z

I built a kind of theater and I wrote a story and I built some puppets. Film: Jean-Pierre Jeunet?s Eye for Detail 2010-05-22T15:01:00Z

Geography for dummies: The special "Jeff Dunham: All Over the Map" features the ventriloquist and his puppet pals on a worldwide tour. TV This Week Nov. 16 -22: 'Independent Lens' on PBS 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z

So was the wiring holding together a skeleton puppet that appeared in the final scene, after an unscripted moment when its arm fell off. Arts & Leisure: ?69?S.,? Shackleton Tale, Comes to BAM Next Wave Festival 2011-10-30T03:00:38Z

Constellation Theatre’s staging of the potty-mouthed puppet musical “Avenue Q” took the most nominations overall, with 14. ‘West Side Story,’ ‘Salome,’ ‘Avenue Q’ top 2016 Hayes nominations 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

“Sometimes rehearsal would just stop because the puppet would kind of hold court and just, like, be making jokes and riffing on things,” he explained. Arts & Leisure: Steven Boyer Unleashes His Inner Demon in ?Hand to God? 2011-12-04T03:30:05Z

While it kept him gainfully employed, Kawamoto soon became disillusioned with advertising work and creating puppets for children's television. Kihachiro Kawamoto obituary 2010-09-05T16:44:00Z

Brady Rymer will honor his mother’s encouragement in “Light of Love,” and Red Yarn will introduce his new Mama Robin puppet while singing “Mama Bird.” Art, Music and More to Experience at Home This Weekend 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

Throughout the trek, the 12-foot-tall puppet — which required up to four people to control — would make over 140 stops in eight countries, at venues ranging from refugee camps to the Royal Opera House in London. Four Months, 5,000 Miles: A Refugee Puppet Looks for Home 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

Small and independent theaters have charged that Theatre Washington is a puppet of the big outfits. After Levy, what next for Theatre Washington and the Hayes Awards? 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

Reading Pow! reminded me of watching a traditional Chinese shadow puppet show, though in this case with lust, bloodthirstiness, torture and other sensational details splashed on to the background. Pow! by Mo Yan – review 2013-01-18T21:00:03Z

Thunderbirds might be coming back but the puppets won't, after Anderson said "everything will be changed" using "today's technology" and "all the mod cons". Thunderbirds could be go for new series 2011-01-12T12:43:20Z

To dry out a puppet, they're sometimes placed on a wooden stand. 15 secrets of "Sesame Street" puppeteers 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

Earlier this month Sawaya told FOX News that his team once built a puppet theater and measuring 18 feet long, 11 feet high. 'Lego Master' artist explains his job creating building challenges for contestants 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

Mum wasn't terribly keen on that, so she bought me my first puppet for my fifth or sixth birthday. Watch my lips 2010-05-07T23:06:00Z

Political puppet theater, of the Bread and Puppet variety, is by its nature not very subtle. | Tears of a Clown 2014-03-03T23:30:51Z

Posing all the puppets in each version of the exhibition is Bonnie Erickson, who joined Henson in 1971 and eventually became head of the Muppet workshop and later executive director of the Jim Henson Legacy. Jim Henson's universe: Muppets, 'Sesame Street,' Fraggles and more, all in one traveling exhibition 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z

In 60-second increments, people contributed their own songs, dances, makeup looks, set designs, puppets and Playbill programs inspired by the 2007 movie. ‘Ratatouille,’ the Musical: How This TikTok Creation Came Together 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z

Also vexing is the less-prominent use of puppets, which were more strikingly employed in past productions. Review: ‘There’s Blood at the Wedding’ Keeps Outrage Alive Onstage 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

Since then, the series has introduced viewers to puppets like Lily, whose family is experiencing houselessness after losing their apartment. Six powerful ways "Sesame Street" shaped our culture, as seen in poignant new "Sunny Days" special 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z

Then the whole world, because it's not associated with The Muppets which are owned by Disney, it's a movie in which puppets and humans coexist and a lot of the supporting characters are all puppets. Henson puppet film The Happytime Murders to feature sex and violence 2012-06-27T16:10:18Z

But there’s not a cast member here who doesn’t deserve kudos, including the few who are humans without puppet personae. Balagan’s ‘Avenue Q’: puppets behaving badly | Theater review 2012-11-23T21:31:07Z

After the performance, part of the series On Stage at Kingsborough, children can meet the cast, both human and puppet, in the theater lobby. Spare Times for Children for Nov. 14-20 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

Olsen got to be so good, he used a goat puppet dressed like a frontier woman to deliver a five-minute monologue to Hunt. Bob Baker Marionette Theater gets boost from 'NCIS: Los Angeles' 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z

The delayed movie "The Beaver", in which Gibson plays a depressed husband who communicates through a beaver hand puppet, is now to be released in the United States on May 6. Mel Gibson breaks silence on domestic violence scandal 2011-04-22T17:54:59Z

That defiance of realism, of course, is part of puppets’ potency. Give Them a Hand: Puppet Artists Are Having a Moment 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

On Monday evening “The Odyssey” will be restaged through the lens of New York City history, using costumed characters and giant puppets, in a site-specific work commissioned for Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City. ?Odysseus at Hell Gate,? to Play at Socrates Sculpture Park 2011-08-26T23:32:43Z

"It's really magical to find yourself playing with these puppets, like you would with any other creature you might play with." Waltz: From Nazi Basterd to Zero hero 2014-03-14T06:33:14Z

Activities for kids and families feature “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” marionette puppet shows at 1 and 3 p.m. Festa Italiana presents cultural feast at Seattle Center 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

Giant dinosaurs, houses filled with dolls and puppets, museums of the weird: America's most interesting roadside attractions are often overlooked, occasionally maligned, and usually hidden away from more heavily traveled areas. Weird Roadside Attractions 2010-11-23T19:00:00Z

“This was really inspired by something Jim used to do early in his career,” Mr. Wisniewski said, “the idea of having a puppet lip sync to a familiar song.” Spare Times for Children for Sept. 25-Oct. 1 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

With a new Muppet movie scheduled to arrive in November, this one’s worth revisiting for a reminder of the right way to put puppets on the big screen. The Week Ahead: July 10 ? 16 2011-07-07T20:15:40Z

Jeb Bush, are you a puppet under the control of your donors, as Mr. Trump says? Review: In Republican Debate, CNN Throws Candidates Into Ring 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z

You have to be as authentic as you can in a role like that, otherwise it’s pointless and becomes a puppet show of a dictator. Idris Elba’s Toughest Role Yet: Going Brutal With Grace for ‘Beasts of No Nation’ 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

And you are unlikely to get a sermon that involves puppets. The week ahead: Giles Fraser's guide to midnight mass – and Doctor Who 2012-12-23T22:01:01Z

All in all, when those little airplane puppets careen by, they seem emblematic of the show. ‘Gimme a Band’ delves into Carmen Miranda’s all-too-colorful story 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

One highlight, the stop-motion-animated “Poles Apart,” focuses on a polar bear and a grizzly — portrayed by ingeniously designed puppets — that become friends in a changing Arctic landscape. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z

Though the Shakespeare Theatre Company may not be the first to use oversize puppets in the scene, it’s hard to imagine any using ones that are bigger. Colossal puppets help create a monumental ‘Tempest’ by the Shakespeare Theatre Co. 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

Might playing puppet master awaken inner demons that drive you to behave monstrously? Movie Review: ‘Ruby Sparks,’ Written by and Starring Zoe Kazan 2012-07-24T21:46:52Z

I could not believe what I saw on TV, puppets without strings! Thunderbirds guru Anderson dies 2012-12-27T09:57:48Z

Plus, he didn’t seem to realize he was a sock puppet. Remember This: ‘The Giants Win the Pennant!’ 2012-10-02T22:46:16Z

Talking glove puppet takes over a man's personality - the pitching meeting for The Beaver must have been an interesting one... 'I'm the Beaver' 2011-06-17T07:30:51Z

As a child he'd performed little shows at home using glove puppets but Bedales, which had a small theatre, gave him the opportunity to develop his repertoire. Obituary: Roger Lloyd-Pack 2014-01-16T12:27:05Z

In this film he uses stop-motion puppets to depict loneliness, love and despair. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘The Mountain Lion and Me’ and ‘Speechless’ 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z

Mr. Zahler offered his own theory about why puppets can be spooky. Made of Blue Felt and Working Blue, Too: Dirty Puppets on the Big Screen 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

But on 11 March there were 25 eunuchs and a perfectly rendered wooden Pinocchio puppet. Bidisha: I'm tired of being the token women 2010-04-22T21:00:00Z

There were tipoffs as to what he’d be doing with his life: the designs he sketched in his prayer books in Yeshiva, the outfits he made for puppet shows in his garage. Free to Be... Isaac Mizrahi 2013-08-28T22:35:16Z

I couldn't get a puppet to pick something up, or to walk. Gerry Anderson: Obituary 2012-12-26T20:44:21Z

Of all the unsung heroes of the pandemic, I never expected to find inspiration in two zany, food-obsessed puppets. Netflix's zany "Waffles + Mochi" is helping heal my eating disorder 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z

The gag was that the hand puppet of the dog was rude to everybody. The Most Riveting Host in Late Night (and the Most Overlooked) 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z

Germany’s conservative politicians assured one another that they would still be the ones to pull the puppet strings. A Sobering Look at How Quickly Hitler Transformed Germany 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

Not a single live human is to be found among these art-making and art-mangling puppets, at least until the very end. Theater Review: Fleur Elise Noble and Puppets in Under the Radar Festival 2013-01-15T23:15:56Z

The sets are skimpy and the props bald: a red bucket with the word “fire” emblazoned on it to indicate a campfire, a lizard hand puppet substituting for a baby. | 'The Complete & Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O?Neill Volume 1': Neo Futurists Present Stage Directions From O?Neill Plays 2011-09-13T02:05:01Z

This co-production with the English National Opera makes wondrous use of aerialists, gargantuan puppets and spectacle. Peter Gelb?s Tenure at Metropolitan Opera 2011-11-25T15:13:27Z

The restored Lyric Theatre is currently home to the innovative puppet theatre company Logic Limited, Ltd, which is making its British debut there with its show TiVo La Resistance! after performing in New York. Arts, anger and atonement in Bridport 2011-07-06T16:14:27Z

There are also some fantastic cut-steel figurines and a mesmerizing film featuring Walker and others performing a shadow play with paper puppets. Issues of today echo in BAM exhibit ‘Emancipating the Past: Kara Walker’s Tales of Slavery and Power’ 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z

Among the unwanted items, the six-year-olds allocated 51 percent to the other group’s puppet, 12 percent to their own group’s puppet, and 37 percent to the box. Kids are learning intolerance at a surprisingly young age 2014-01-31T12:45:00Z

It takes place in the strange shop of Albert Grimlake, a man who makes and sells novelty party tricks and puppets. Strange Interlude, Paradise Lost, The Dug Out: what to see at the theatre this week 2013-05-25T05:00:20Z

All this made me think of Ben Jonson and his puppets and his puritans. Ben Jonson, like Charb of Charlie Hebdo, sought to reduce zealots 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

The gowns designed by William Ivey Long are stunning, but the quick-change action by which they are donned is just as bewitching — and as frolicsome as the animal puppets enlivening the outdoor scenes. Enchanting 'Cinderella' brings happily-ever-after to Ahmanson 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Walter proffers a note to family and colleagues, pretending he's been prescribed the puppet by his doctor as a means of rebirth, and they must address it, rather than him. SXSW 2011: The Beaver - review 2011-03-17T10:10:14Z

Another voices her romantic longings through puppets made out of office supplies. Risk-taking Seattle theaters offer wild surprises 2011-12-01T00:35:04Z

But there’s nothing all that innocent about kiddie puppets, either; they are typically examples of how not to behave. “Hand to God”: “Sesame Street” Meets “The Exorcist” 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

Mr. Anton performed his puppet plays for no more than 18 people at once and did not allow them to be filmed or photographed. Give Them a Hand: Puppet Artists Are Having a Moment 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

"It's based on a kind of Japanese puppet: the mechanism is secret – it's never been written down – but we watched a load of movies and reconstructed it." Ill met by marionette: the puppet Midsummer Night's Dream 2013-03-04T19:00:01Z

Another dismissed it as an impersonation that recalled the puppets on “Spitting Image,” a British TV show that satirized public figures of the 1980s and ’90s. Britain Wonders, Is It Too Soon to Dramatize the Pandemic? 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z

“Age of Resistance” drops on Netflix Friday, and it comes to us in an era where puppets appear in all kinds of films, thanks to Henson's legacy. "The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance": A seductive fantasy very relevant to our reality 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

With the help of Hamlet, his tiny psychic pig puppet, Mr. Darwin scrawled a name on a whiteboard in his hand. Spare Times — For Children for May 25-31 2012-05-24T22:25:26Z

Hunt, whose work appears in the Teatro SEA exhibition, portrays the character in a puppet that encases her entire body. A Puppet Festival Returns to New York, All Grown Up 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z

Finger puppets, colored pencils and activity books are also offered onboard. Flying With Children: the Bad and the Worse 2011-11-04T18:52:26Z

She argued the opposite, and was correct: These were life-size puppets, their shepherds puppeteers, and this was a pop-up performance. Digital Be Damned! Welcome to Shows You Can Touch and Feel. 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z

But they note that they've changed the name to include sock puppets, hand puppets, marionettes, shadow puppets and mascots. 'Puppet March' planned in DC to defend PBS funding 2012-10-17T10:31:09Z

Friday, glowing costumes and music-making encouraged, to move floats and giant puppets to the parade staging area. Fremont Fair, parade launch summer in the Center of the Universe 2012-06-13T23:42:04Z

Pieces include “Ottof,” a dance piece from Marrakesh; and “Cabaret Crusades: The Secrets of Karbala,” a movie that retells the story of the seventh-century Battle of Karbala with puppets. Cannes Festival Begins and Chinese Artists Head to Sydney: Global Arts Guide 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

It had the feeling of a hunt, with the puppet refugee as quarry. Is Little Amal Getting Lost in New York? 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

Then just like in an episode of SVU, Jef uses his puppet to show where the blonde lady touched him: In his heart. The Bachelorette Watch: Let's Czech Out Prague 2012-06-26T12:30:34Z

To wit: At a recent Sunday matinee here of “Shrek,” children shrieked with delight as Donkey — the title character’s sidekick — was chased around the stage by a flirty female dragon puppet. Arts & Leisure: Flops on Broadway? Fix Them Overseas 2011-07-29T13:56:39Z

Swiss mime clowns, French puppet companies, avant-garde mixed-media artists, all a walk away. A life in theatre: Michael Boyd 2012-11-16T12:43:29Z

Back in town, shop for prayer flags and silver jewelry in the lively Tibetan Quarter, or head to nearby Jinli Ancient Street for Sichuanese specialties like hand-crafted shadow puppets. The Asia Issue: Asian Odysseys 2011-03-18T18:55:00Z

There have been suggestions that her fame, prominence and phenomenal success is based on the power and talent of the people she works with, that she's just a puppet of a corporate machine. Feminist icon? 2010-09-17T07:00:00Z

July 12-13 Art display and sale, music, food, puppet shows, kid’s activities. July 2014 calendar of events 2014-05-12T04:00:00Z

He likens himself as the puppet master, the one who's pulling the strings on the media. Wikileaks documentary spotlights complexity of Julian Assange 2013-05-24T11:18:48Z

This playful, colorful staging, which comes from the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto, is saturated with Buddhist imagery; elements of Asian theater, including puppets; and, believe it or not, a pair of sumo wrestlers. Review: Handel’s ‘Semele’ Comes With Sumo Wrestlers at BAM 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

Instruction in strumming on the old banjo and making pop-up puppets was also available at nearby craft booths. Lots to catch the eye at opening day of Folklife Festival 2011-05-28T02:46:41Z

In recent years, Nelson stopped operating the Count and other “Sesame Street” puppets but still served as their voices. Jerry Nelson, Count of ‘Sesame Street,’ Dies at 78 2012-08-24T12:57:29Z

Devon is the puppet master, putting all the jigsaw pieces together to solve the mystery. Escape Theory by Margaux Froley - review 2013-04-26T08:00:00Z

He brought Brian to New York and started with the puppet workshop and Brian experimenting with different type of puppetry techniques to translate this illustrated look into design. "Dark Crystal" director on working puppet magic: "You have to imagine bringing life to everything" 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z

In the museum’s Moving Image Studio, children will design paper bag hand puppets, above left — with materials like googly eyes, pipe cleaners and plastic jewelry — for a rousing round of on-camera karaoke. Spare Times for Children for Sept. 25-Oct. 1 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

Or, possibly, its wacky premise: a man suffering from depression starts communicating solely through a glove puppet. SXSW 2011: The Beaver - review 2011-03-17T10:10:14Z

And, of course, there were the puppets — a gaggle of exuberant if battle-weary Gelflings, each one carried and manually operated by its own individual handler. ‘The Dark Crystal’ Returns on an Even Grander Scale 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

Currently booking at the New London theatre until October 2011, it is notable for its innovative use of giant puppets to depict the horses. Steven Spielberg unveils cast for War Horse adaptation 2010-06-18T10:41:00Z

On TV, the ponies are played by Russ Walko’s adorable puppets. 'Bronies': When men love 'My Little Pony' too much 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

The show’s best moments were deep dives into the ridiculous sublime, as when she sang “Dark Horse” from atop a puppet horse manipulated by a few of her industrious backup dancers. Katy Perry at Madison Square Garden 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

King Haakon VII and the government went into exile, while at home Vidkun Quisling - whose last name is a byword for traitor in English - set up a Nazi puppet government. Crime king Jo Nesboe's tale of revenge has echoes of his own father 2014-04-10T09:28:43Z

The text, adapted by director Matt Walker from a translation by Kenneth McLeish and Michael Sargent, is handled not so much with kid gloves as with frisky sock puppets. The Troubies turn an ancient Roman comedy into a modern 'Haunted House Party' 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

Little Amal was created by Handspring, the company that made the equine puppets for hit West End and Broadway theater show “War Horse.” Puppet Little Amal arrives in UK after journey across Europe 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

Hopkins may be the ventriloquist, but the puppets are the ones pulling the strings here. Clip Joint: ventriloquists 2010-09-01T17:06:00Z

Excited children and adults crowded around the puppet, and raised lanterns and lights to guide her way. Four Months, 5,000 Miles: A Refugee Puppet Looks for Home 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

The puppets did the sort of things children do. How we made The Sooty Show 2012-08-06T16:52:55Z

But back to the puppet on the table. The Table ? review 2011-08-11T12:06:26Z

Konner says she finds it "shocking" how much the show has "spoken to people", as she originally thought they might be "making a puppet show for three friends". Girls wants 'to normalise sex on TV' 2014-01-20T07:24:21Z

But when they finally began working with the puppets, which Van Wyk made himself, everything clicked. For Imagination Stage’s ‘BFG’ puppeteers, canned tomatoes are free weights

Artists who have collaborated on past Webre works are creating life-size horse puppets, period costumes, decor, projections and other design elements. ‘Sleepy Hollow’s’ Headless Horseman: Spring dance leaps out of ballet’s box 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

I use it to keep in touch with different groups of people – old friends, my poetry group, the puppet show I work with. ‘I was so embarrassed I cried’: do parents share too much online? 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z

That is the question for many puppet troupes, whose members can fade into the background with the aid of devices like curtains and black bodysuits, or remain in full view, obtrusively unobtrusive. Spare Times for Children for March 20-26 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

As with any puppet, the eyes were key—in this case, “nice, big, moist, forward-facing eyes,” Mr. Gent says. In ‘Isle of Dogs,’ Wes Anderson Applied Puppet Lessons From ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z

To Democrats and liberals, he was a manipulator of the news, a puppet master who used his network to turn minor stories into blazing scandals, ostensibly in service of his personal politics. Roger Ailes, architect of conservative TV juggernaut Fox News, is dead at 77 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

“Sesame Street’s” production company was even compelled to put out a statement on the latter topic some years ago: “They are not gay, they are not straight, they are puppets.” Are we ready for a gay Disney princess? We may be closer than you think. 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

Unable to repair the puppet, Geppetto saws off both its limbs, replacing them with ever more imaginative prostheses he fashions from tools, clamps and odds and ends. Spare Times for Children for June 21-27 2013-06-20T23:01:28Z

You couldn’t quite get a sense of how the puppets related to the human body. How ‘The Lion King’ Got to Broadway and Ruled for 25 Years (So Far) 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z

James Ortiz’s towering puppet creations straight from the prehistoric era — a woolly mammoth and brachiosaurus — in “The Skin of Our Teeth” were also a visual delight. Against All Odds, Broadway Rose to the Occasion. Mostly. 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z

Souren Balakian, a lonely Armenian émigré longing for a sense of connection with his new home, stages disturbingly unconventional puppet shows in the Luxembourg Gardens. A Novel That Unfolds in a Day, and Other Historical Fiction 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

It’s all very quaint and disarmingly sincere, but I did miss those puppets. | 'Farm Boy': ?Farm Boy,? ?War Horse? Sequel, at 59E59 Theaters - Review 2011-12-15T22:23:16Z

After the show, children can create their own puppets and travel maps. Spare Times for Children for May 3-May 9 2013-05-02T23:06:46Z

Pinocchio might have the chance to truly become a real boy in this remake based loosely on the original morality tale of the puppet who is brought to life. Here are Disney's Forthcoming Live-Action Movies 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z

But in this context the puppets, operated by black-clad puppeteers, worked brilliantly. Music Review: From Wily House Cat to Lord of the Manor 2010-10-03T22:17:00Z

And then they step forward and the improvisers sort of interact with these body puppets. 8 ways to do Improv Fest 2011-04-21T18:33:00Z

The key question, according to Mr. Tiffany: “How do you make puppets move like human beings, and human beings move like puppets?” ‘He’s All Impulse’: Making Disney’s ‘Pinocchio’ Naughty Onstage 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z

These are the puppets sans puppet master, mute and forever alien. In a MOMA retrospective, Picasso’s sculpture is still full of surprises 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

Most scenes occur in the curtained box of a traditional puppet theater, but some spill onto the Woolly stage. A heavy toll of Puppet Death 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

Visitors will see canine stamps, artistic prints with sausage dog motifs, handmade puppets and porcelain figurines. 'The world needs a sausage dog museum', so German owners provide one 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

Having spent the opera gradually developing self-awareness as a puppet, she will show Tamino that he is attached to strings, show him how to remove them, and then learn with him how to walk unaided. In Germany, a New ‘Magic Flute’ Is a Deadly Serious Game 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

Her Ballerina puppet is pitch perfect: mechanically precise dancing, matched by a sense that her limited stock of pretty emotions is equally run by clockwork. English National Ballet: A Tribute to Rudolf Nureyev – review 2013-07-26T12:37:14Z

What mattered most about “Sesame Street” was not the alphabet songs, the counting games or the funny puppets. Psychiatry, racism, and the birth of "Sesame Street" 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z

The wood puppet was a vessel for these concerns. Derek Fordjour, From Anguish to Transcendence 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z

We met the Endicott family at the breakfast table, then followed a daughter, Abby, as she went to a puppet ministry show at Bible school. Welcome to a Texas hell house, where wayward Christians are scared straight 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z

This being a Skipitares project, there are plenty of puppets, too. ‘The Transfiguration of Benjamin Banneker’ Review: An Unwieldy Ride 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z

Vogel evokes their plainer impulses, the fact that some have come to regard American government as “political fantasy camp,” a chance to pull the puppet strings and see what happens. What We're Reading: Summer Edition 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

The show, conceived and directed by Mara Lieberman with puppet design by James Ortiz, takes place mostly outdoors with one brief foray inside. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

The hero, a dedicated young puppet cop, takes the brunt of this in station-house scenes with actual actors. Watch List: Yahoo! Screen Introduces Shows With Puppets and a Tiny Rambo 2013-09-08T21:53:03Z

Industry professionals who decline to read your work are puppets of The System. Has Twitter's #badwritingtips improved writing? 2012-06-25T16:15:47Z

Lifelike puppet doppelgängers enabled scenes in which characters appear to interact with someone twice or half their size. How ‘I’m a Virgo’ Pulled Off Old-School Movie Magic 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z

TIME: What was it about puppets that entranced you as a child? This Is What It's Like to Play Big Bird on Sesame Street for 45 Years 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z

It’s not even the only transgressive puppet satire coming out this month: “Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich,” a darkly comic, Nazi-themed reboot of the horror franchise about demonic toys, hit screens on Aug. 17. Made of Blue Felt and Working Blue, Too: Dirty Puppets on the Big Screen 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

After its premiere in Portland last year, Oregon ArtsWatch critic Bruce Browne praised Curry’s “Persephone”: “Ghostly kites, tree roots morphing into hairdos, and eerily human puppets were stunning, bringing the mythology to life.” Stravinsky’s ‘Persephone’ at Seattle Symphony goes big with puppets, dancers, singers and full orchestra 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

The Russian dancer’s silhouette, replicated from the photos Mr. Klunchun studied, appears on the shadow puppets, reinforcing the feeling of Nijinsky’s presence. Walking in Nijinsky's Footsteps 2010-06-23T12:00:00Z

Turned into a popular television series, Paddington, with his distinctive Wellington boots, old hat and duffle coat, was portrayed by a stop-motion puppet. 'Paddington' film brings 1950s bear to 21st century London 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

James Ortiz designed the deer puppets; if they lack the emotional heft of the cow he designed for the current revival of “Into the Woods,” well, you can’t have everything. Review: Finding Community in ‘As You Like It’ 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z

“People are not drawn to me, because they can’t see my face,” the performer explains, “so the puppet becomes a real person. It blows your mind.” Looking from the outside in, ‘Voyeur’ reimagines the life of Toulouse-Lautrec 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

The show, which ran at the Barbican Theater in London and included numerous giant puppets, secured nine nominations for the awards — more than any other play. ‘My Neighbour Totoro’ Dominates Olivier Award Nominations 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z

Then there’s the heads-up about “implied nudity through the use of lifelike puppets.” Review: In ‘Chambre Noire,’ Puppets Make Poetry Painfully Real 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

One of its full-size horse puppets was brought on stage as a "surprise guest". Matilda musical tops stage awards 2012-02-20T10:57:17Z

Transposition'Part of the Eye on India festival taking place this summer in Chicago and Seattle, this is a rare chance to see India's leading puppet theater and the work of its famed founder, Dadi Punumjee. Summer stage is heating up 2011-05-27T14:25:14Z

They started a puppet show called “Top Goon” that satirized Assad. For these Syrian artists, humor is essential to coping with oppression and war 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

Until 2020, she thought that she would be a puppeteer and operate a mobile puppet theater, but then decided against it because “I realized, I’m actually a very shy person,” she said. This Young Artist’s Works Capture the Agony and Ecstasy of Being Alive 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z

She added, “You really don’t want a room full of dead puppets.” Jim Henson's universe: Muppets, 'Sesame Street,' Fraggles and more, all in one traveling exhibition 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z

He's a Japanese bunraku puppet and the star of Blind Summit's triptych of miniatures exploring the art of "extreme puppetry". The Table ? review 2011-08-11T12:06:26Z

This Broadway musical, notorious for its giant, intricate puppet, beats its chest for the final time. 10 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

Guest stars detail their varied familiarity sex toys for their various cavities, while puppets sing the ABCs of varying alternate sex behaviors. From Goop to puppets, how Netflix is offering sex ed for a new age 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

That spectacle has become so vast that this time, she and Mr. Daughs don’t plan to do their puppet theater production, “St. George & the Friendly Dragon.” Spare Times for Children for April 24-30 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

The puppet is quick-witted and charming, but also consistently menacing—which reminds us, of course, of Gibson the very bad boyfriend and tabloid star. The Beaver: Can You Forgive Him? 2011-05-04T18:10:00Z

But while dazzled by the technical finesse, I began to crave, after 100 minutes in the company of puppets, the spontaneous combustion created by the presence of living actors. Review 2010-10-05T23:41:00Z

A wizened gentleman puppet is our host, offering his own meditations on puppet death and beseeching us to relieve his own loneliness and puppet despair. A heavy toll of Puppet Death 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z

Then she headed for the beach, where she was joined by 30 other puppets her size. Little Amal Arrives in New York, With a Message of Hope and Humanity 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

The young actors working the puppets have so mastered their choreography that they and their puppets meld into one. Balagan’s ‘Avenue Q’: puppets behaving badly | Theater review 2012-11-23T21:31:07Z

Gwendolyn Warnock, one of the creators of “Baby Universe,” a poignant puppet play inspired by Stephen Hawking’s theoretical physics, said the new piece required the company to extend itself technically. Cyborgs Onstage, Robots in the Wings 2010-12-30T23:58:33Z

Her parents bought her a puppet at age 8, thinking it would be a good outlet for her. ‘Sesame Street’ has its first Black female puppeteer 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z

Muppet creator Jim Henson's family is donating about 400 puppets, costumes, props and other items to the Museum of the Moving Image. Muppets creator's items head to NYC museum 2013-05-21T16:55:08Z

In the morning highlights will include a “Sesame Street” puppet show about new year traditions; a Chinese zodiac and dragon scavenger hunt; and a workshop to make a giant dragon for the Great Hall balcony. Spare Times: For Children, for Feb. 3-9 2012-02-02T21:53:28Z

Torvald, her husband, blinds himself to compassionate reason: preferring to play the puppet to social expectations, he denies his own humanity. A Doll's House – review 2013-05-11T23:04:06Z

Power-brokers in the Congress Party believed they were installing a puppet in the prime minister’s office. Raise him up 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

“I was born the same year the puppets were made,” Kriess said. A famous Santa and Rudolph are heading to auction 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

He packs decades’ worth of boxes filled with film reels and puppets into a rental truck and heads home to New York. Review | Charlie Kaufman’s debut novel, ‘Antkind,’ is just as loopy and clever as his movies 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

Asked if the production would involve puppets as animals, as in “The Lion King,” Mr. Schulfer said the idea would be a major focus of a design meeting in the next weeks. ArtsBeat: 'Sweet Bird of Youth,' 'Jungle Book' Musical Will Bookend Goodman Season 2012-02-28T06:00:30Z

Even so, the puppets are making rehearsals unusually taxing. The gay puppet stars of Or You Could Kiss Me 2010-10-03T20:59:00Z

Mark Gatiss, an incompetent doctor whose most violent action is plunging his fists into the pockets of his beige cardy, is assembling a doomed puppet show of the Three Little Pigs. Week in theatre 2010-12-12T00:05:00Z

The new iteration kept the original’s absurdist and outlandish sensibilities, with the contestants armed not with big singing voices but with puppets, costumes, synchronized swimming routines on land and Britney Spears impersonations. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘The Gong Show’ and ‘Detroiters’ 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z

The event will combine Polly's latest picture book, Arthur's Dream Boat, with puppet theatre and is suitable for children aged 4-7. Polly Dunbar's top 10 books that would make great puppet shows 2013-04-18T13:24:46Z

This year she's pushing the form, improvising with her puppets, engaging them in traditional stand-up banter with the audience, and introducing some new puppets, including a charming one based on her own grandmother. Edinburgh fringe comedy round-up 2010-08-21T23:06:00Z

Contestants vie for cash prizes by deciding whether the puppets are telling true or false stories. New Henson puppets go wild on GSN game show 2010-05-04T18:15:00Z

But when I was a kid, I did do puppetry — hand puppets, and marionettes, and that sort of thing. Steve Carell and Robert Zemeckis on "Welcome to Marwen," process, pretension and pain 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

I would like to make this book into a fairground ride, like a ghost train but with puppets instead of ghosts or a rollercoaster. Polly Dunbar's top 10 books that would make great puppet shows 2013-04-18T13:24:46Z

In Paris, the two saw a live 3-D theatrical broadcast of the 2010 World Cup, which piqued the director’s interest: “He said, ‘It’s incredible because we see everything like puppets,’ ” Mr. Aragno recalled. Godard Tries Out 3-D in ‘Goodbye to Language’ 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

Now this 46-year-old playwright and director is playing with puppets: fish, fowl, an ogre, rabbits, a cat. Director?s Fancy Leads to a Tale-Spinning Cat 2010-09-30T21:18:00Z

The regular list includes oral traditions and performances, social rituals and crafts — from Cambodia’s Royal  Ballet to Indonesian puppet theater. What Does Unesco Recognition Mean, Exactly? 2012-01-06T17:43:35Z

The show initially had only three Princeton puppets — but he had eight costumes — meaning the puppets took a beating from changing clothes multiple times eight shows a week. The Museum of Broadway Is Open. Here Are 10 Highlights. 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z

“I think it’s very exciting! I think it’s great. Finally, the illuminati has picked a female puppet.” Hari Kondabolu: America’s smartest and funniest “mainstream comic” 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z

Such is the paradox of puppets, inanimate objects that are a portal to the imagination and a direct line to the heart. Zvi Sahar’s 'Salt of the Earth' at BAM 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

Photograph: AP He was one of the most notorious figures of postwar America, a behind-the-scenes puppet master revered by some and feared by many. Leonardo DiCaprio tapped for J Edgar Hoover biopic 2010-04-01T15:21:00Z

Many of the familiar stories are here, including a lovely version of The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg, which features a puppet goose constructed from a shopping bag, rubber gloves and salad servers. The Boy Who Cried Wolf – review 2013-07-24T17:26:52Z

With the exception of the looming, vampiric General, the puppets are also problematic. A puppet version of Jane Austen's 'Northanger Abbey' is modest success 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

Also, if Jesus and Joseph and Mary et al. were originally to be represented by puppets, why the racks of costumes conveniently full of human-size costumes? ‘The Cardinals’ at the Public Theater 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

You write in your book that “speechwriters are more like personal trainers than puppet masters.” David Litt, an Obama Speechwriter Who Wants No Credit 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

Curry designed the puppet Persephone with flowing hair and brightly colored clothing, and he built her to move in a magical way. Stravinsky’s ‘Persephone’ at Seattle Symphony goes big with puppets, dancers, singers and full orchestra 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

Eventually more than 20 puppets were built to ensure the animators had enough. For ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio,’ a Star Built From Tiny Gears and 3-D Printing 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z

North bid four clubs, a puppet to four diamonds. Bridge: At the Game?s Highest Level, Communication Is Everything 2011-05-22T21:58:39Z

Premiering his first show in seven years at a puppet theatre in Islington, Newman couldn't be further from that -club franchise, or indeed the mainstream. Robert Newman – review 2013-05-23T17:21:02Z

His staging techniques are early 19th century, with painted cloth flats, shadow puppets and stylized gestures. ‘Il Trovatore’ and ‘Fierrabras’ at Salzburg Festival 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

One of the daring elements of the production is the depiction of Wozzeck and Marie’s young son as a simple puppet, wearing ragged clothes and a gas mask. Review: The Searing Beauty of Kentridge’s ‘Wozzeck’ at the Met 2019-12-29T05:00:00Z

Highlights of Coram Boy, its 2005 Christmas production, featured murdered newborns, a hanging, a sexual encounter and dead puppet babies rising from their graves: the rating was 12+. Teenagers won't be shocked by a naked man on the stage 2011-02-27T00:06:05Z

The last time you saw this movie, it was a comedy called Groundhog Day, and it starred Bill Murray and a remarkably unrealistic groundhog puppet who could drive a car. Bloggers must be free to call a buzzwordgasm a buzzwordgasm 2011-03-17T12:00:00Z

"Late Night Liars," debuting next month on GSN, features a panel of what the channel calls saucy and uncensored "celebrity puppets." New Henson puppets go wild on GSN game show 2010-05-04T18:15:00Z

Two recent productions, The Tempest and a staging of Shakespeare's epic poem Venus and Adonis, have been collaborations with London's Little Angel puppet theatre. Revenge of the Muppets 2012-02-12T20:00:19Z

When she first started the project, the puppets she made were much more realistic, and it wasn’t working. Life with Cancer in “Dani” 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

Instead, he creates Pinocchio, a disobedient puppet who yearns to be a boy, runs away and is jailed, almost hanged and, after being transformed into a donkey, nearly skinned. ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio’ Review: Puppets and Power 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

Later, the puppet characters get human embodiment, and then amusing sock-puppet treatment. Review | Pointless Theatre’s slapdash ‘Don Cristóbal’ 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

This, put concisely, is what the characters in “The Last of Us” are going to be dealing with: “Billions of puppets with poisoned minds.” ‘The Last of Us’ Series Premiere Recap: Fungus Among Us 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z

Helsinki reaffirmed what I’ve known for two years, and what Hillary told us in the debate: Trump is Putin’s puppet. Writer Greg Olear on “Dirty Rubles”: Trump is “gravest existential threat” to America in... 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z

“It taps into human fears of puppet masters, that we are somehow evil scientists that don’t respect the natural order of things.” Science-fiction turns real: Genetically engineering animals for war 2013-03-23T19:00:00Z

I mean unless the puppet master is so brilliantly concealed that I'm just blind to who they are I can't really see there being anybody in control. Charlie Brooker answers your questions: 'I get angry to amuse myself' 2013-02-06T19:01:10Z

Other pieces, all on view until Aug. 28, include a Javanese shadow puppet, a rare aboriginal Taiwanese grain bin and textile from Sumba. See art by Austronesians, and find out who they were 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z

Mr. Smigel has developed a gleefully unmannered voice that he’s used to send up politics and pop culture on shows like “Saturday Night Live” and as his trash-talking puppet creation, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog. Jon Stewart and Robert Smigel Craft a Comedy Benefit at a Polarized Moment 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z

Mackenzie Davis’s Mariette shows initial promise as a strong character who can give as good as she gets, but she is also a sex worker who is literally used as a puppet. Is Blade Runner 2049 a sexist film – or a fair depiction of a dystopic future? 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z

Ella grows from being a puppet — literally — in the first scene to being in complete physical control by the final scene. Bringing an empowered Cinderella to the stage 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

Fan favorite in the making: the winsome cow puppet Milky White. What to See on Broadway in October 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z

South Africa's Handspring Puppet Company are best known in this country for their work on War Horse, where the puppets, rather than the human actors, were very much the hit of the show. This week's new theatre 2013-02-23T06:00:13Z

Sesame Street — and to a lesser extend 3-2-1 Contact and The Electric Company — taught us to read, spell, count, and be nice to furry puppets, all by sitting on our duffs. A Guide to Determining the Quality of Your Kid’s Screen Time 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

A puppet, a human dancer and a narrator will all portray Persephone, daughter of goddess Demeter, as she forges a new identity after the gods conspire to send her to the Underworld. Stravinsky’s ‘Persephone’ at Seattle Symphony goes big with puppets, dancers, singers and full orchestra 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

At that point, all I could see was the claptrap—a shrine after the pilgrims have gone home, littered with debris, the mysteries revealed to be a puppet show. An L.A. Artist Who Anticipated Our Trumpian Moment 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

To the left, dozens of saved, naked people rise up toward Jesus, who, having trampled a skeleton underfoot, looks down like a beneficent puppet master. Art Review: At the Rubin Museum, ?Remember That You Will Die? 2010-05-06T20:57:00Z

Playing off the film, the puppet theater’s nativity tale features silly foreign accents, particularly from the Three Wise Men, lots of jokes and slang often with a local flavor. Brussels puppet theater adds Monty Python humor to nativity tale 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z

And it really was a staged production, ingeniously conceived, involving puppets, projections, live videos and wild costumes. Music Review: An Impish Creature That Won?t Be Fenced In 2011-06-23T22:21:40Z

Yes, the lanky guy with the dopey, chin-length bob haircut wearing a pair of hand puppets shaped like anthropomorphic sandwiches in sunglasses looked very much like the actor we know. A Darker, Deeper Jim Carrey Returns to TV With ‘Kidding’ 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

At one time there were many puppet troupes on the island. Distinguished Japanese puppet theater to visit Seattle 2013-08-14T19:32:33Z

He had to live without individual eyelashes that moved with the puppets’ eyes when they blinked. In ‘Isle of Dogs,’ Wes Anderson Applied Puppet Lessons From ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z

Oz’s father was drawn to puppetry from the day when, as an 11-year-old boy, he passed a street show of outsize, colorful Sicilian puppets in Antwerp. The Saga of a World War II Ancestor of Miss Piggy, Bert and Yoda 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

The puppet is the protagonist in what is ostensibly a traveling theater project meant to remind a news-fatigued public about the children fleeing violence and persecution. Little Amal Arrives in New York, With a Message of Hope and Humanity 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

Tyrone might in this case be wired to Jason’s psyche, but “Hand to God” proposes that there’s an evil sock puppet manning the control panel of everyone’s nerve center. Meet foul-mouthed Tyrone. He’ll put you off the Muppets forever. 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

The puppets mostly mimed and would lip-sync to popular music. Henson donates original Kermit to Smithsonian 2010-08-25T17:32:00Z

A: With the erumpent, we had some of the guys who worked on "War Horse" make a huge puppet that I rehearsed with for a few weeks. A Minute With: 'Fantastic' Newt Scamander (aka Eddie Redmayne) 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

Back at the start of TV people were thinking that it would be an excellent way to have puppet shows in the home. Why McLuhan's chilling vision still matters today 2011-07-20T18:00:15Z

Seven adorable actor-musicians and a few shadow puppets portray a man who gives up refueling the moon to sail in search of his lost wife. Theater Listings for Sept. 26-Oct. 2 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

On the 2011 day that New York legalized same-sex marriage, Rod and Ricky, two puppets from the musical, went to City Hall to get married. Everything in Life Is Only for Now: ‘Avenue Q’ to Close in April 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

The other seismic moment for Takemitsu was seeing a performance of Bunraku puppet theatre and, a couple of decades after the war, opening his heart at last to the beauty of his homeland's musical traditions. A guide to Toru Takemitsu's music 2013-02-11T17:12:00Z

Adding a dimension often serves to shrink the objects on the screen, instead of giving them more pomp; trees and mountains end up looking like pieces in a diorama; people seem like puppets. The Misunderstanding of 3-D 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

His puppet is made of foam, fabric and plastic and is strapped to him like a snug-fitting hiking pack. For Imagination Stage’s ‘BFG’ puppeteers, canned tomatoes are free weights

"No, build a full puppet, do a full short film." "Dark Crystal" director on working puppet magic: "You have to imagine bringing life to everything" 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z

“Bill’s 44th” is one of those — a poignant, comic puppet play for grown-ups about a birthday party whose guests fail to appear. ‘Bill’s 44th’ Review: Where Are All the Party People? 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z

He sings about finding his “Purpose” in life, but his puppet wears a Charlie Brown-style sweater vest, so you worry about the quality of Princeton’s luck. Olney Theatre Centre’s production of ‘Avenue Q’ offers politically incorrect laughs

Strawberry Theatre Workshop adds its own festivities to the centennial of Guthrie's birth with a "play for puppets and actors derived from the drawing, writing and music" of the folk hero. 12 top entertainment picks for the week of Sept. 2-8, 2012 2012-08-29T21:43:04Z

The creators chose to go with puppets instead of animation because of their expressive nature. New kids’ TV show emerges from the Mister Rogers universe 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z

Visitors can see puppets and sets from the films and try creating their own animated short that they can share and post online. At Museums and Auctions, Private Treasures Are Unveiled 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z

Tyrone is Jason’s mechanism for dealing with the world’s harsh truths: the puppet is just as cruel and unrelenting as life beyond the pews. “Hand to God”: “Sesame Street” Meets “The Exorcist” 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

They looked like a cross between male models and Thunderbird puppets. The Drums 2010-06-13T21:30:00Z

Pyramus and Thisbe are represented by towering, 15ft-high puppets that owe something to sophisticated companies such as Handspring and Royal de Luxe but also to an English eccentric like Heath Robinson. A Midsummer Night's Dream (As You Like It) – review 2012-08-15T17:05:47Z

The Thatcher puppet was much harsher, so I decided to combine her interview voice with her House of Commons voice. How Do You Play Margaret Thatcher? Like This 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

But it could also flop to earth like one of the human-size fish puppets in the fantastical story Ms. Ruhl tells. ?Sarah Ruhl?s Passion Play? at a Brooklyn Church 2010-04-13T23:19:00Z

Mr. Carrey operated one of the puppets while speaking in a goofy voice, as if his tongue were stuck to the roof of his mouth. A Darker, Deeper Jim Carrey Returns to TV With ‘Kidding’ 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

Their youngest selves are played initially by puppets, then seamlessly succeeded by the adult actors Lucy McCormick and Liam Tamne, who bring a roiling chemistry to what will become Catherine and Heathcliff’s desperate mutual obsession. Review: In This ‘Wuthering Heights,’ Music, Moors and Untamed Spirits 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z

Experimental theater, movies starring puppets, chamber music concerts and contemporary ballet will all play a part in this spring festival. Major Lazer in Nuremberg, Germany, and Ai Weiwei in Athens: Global Arts Guide 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

In the end, they created puppets for “a portion of the village,” Mr. Knight said. ‘Kubo and the Two Strings’ Blends Animation and Origami 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z

And by the way: no puppets in either. Edinburgh fringe theatre roundup 2012-08-11T23:05:48Z

Jump cuts, extreme close-ups and scene dissolves can make puppet films more exciting — or unsettling. The Wide World of Puppetry Converges on New York 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z

Glove puppet superstars Basil Brush and Sooty blazed the trail, but they were kids' stuff. Acceptable in the 80s 2010-07-29T21:00:00Z

A little bit of tinfoil, felt and a cigarette turn an actual baguette into Monsieur Baguette, one of the many puppet friends who fill this world. TV treat 'Food Party' mixes kooky cook, kid show vibe with art project 2010-05-18T19:32:00Z

But they manipulate her arms as if she were a puppet and force her to write propaganda. ‘Witches Vanish’ is an uneven brew about an important topic 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z

Play is explored in both its meanings, and the music is simple enough for a puppet show. Review: Peter Brook Asks the Ultimate Question in ‘Why?’ 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

Dancers moved the enormous fish like a puppet, wiggling its tentacles around her. Review: Lady Gaga proved she's a spectacle with soul on her Tacoma stop 2010-08-22T18:28:00Z

The researchers then asked all the children to rate the teacher puppet in terms of how helpful it was on a scale from 1 to 20. Study: Kids Know When Adults Are Keeping Secrets 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

He set up a puppet opera theater that toured Norway. Stefan Herheim’s Glittering Collisions Have Changed Opera 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

Linz says the audience does part of that work themselves, projecting their own feelings onto a puppet. 15 secrets of "Sesame Street" puppeteers 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

That last quality is located in her Scottish Granny puppet. Nina Conti 2010-08-25T20:30:00Z

Directed by Ana Graham and Mr. Vega, and peopled with many puppets designed by Mr. Vega, this is a busy show with quiet flashes of grace. Review: ‘The Duchamp Syndrome’ Debuts at the Flea Theater 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

The musical “Avenue Q,” which looked like “Sesame Street” with foul-mouthed puppets, won the Tony Award for best musical and made millions. 'Duck Dynasty' Family at Center of New Las Vegas Musical 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z

Puppetry is often a part of SCT productions, but in "The Borrowers," puppets large and small help us understand the relative proportions between characters and things. Pocket-size people under the floor make comic mayhem 2010-10-13T18:56:00Z

Unfairer still was that Cicero’s head and hands were then displayed at the Roman forum, like some sort of meat puppet. Perspective | Trump says he’s the victim of a witch hunt. These politicians were treated worse. 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

Whether audiences turn out or not, we haven’t seen the last oddball puppet film. Made of Blue Felt and Working Blue, Too: Dirty Puppets on the Big Screen 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

Visitors to the international airport are greeted by life-size pictures of the group as well as dancing Spitting Image puppets. Sweden's ABBA museum to open, but reunion rumors quashed 2013-05-06T15:13:47Z

This remnant of puppet sheep — surely that’s what it was — filled me with disproportionate joy. Digital Be Damned! Welcome to Shows You Can Touch and Feel. 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z

He was immediately suspicious that the puppets had been made with their certain puppeteers in mind, even though the writers denied that was the case. 10 Things You DIdn’t Know About Fraggle Rock 2013-05-14T18:24:54Z

Sometimes other storytellers perform, as does a puppet troop. Storyteller entertains kids in Mexico City apartment complex 2020-07-19T04:00:00Z

That ambiguity is conveyed here ingeniously: sometimes we see the characters as hand puppets; sometimes we see them portrayed by dancers. Music Review: ‘A Dancer’s Dream’ Includes Orchestra in Stravinsky Ballets 2013-06-28T21:18:49Z

Looking like Indonesian shadow puppets, the officers gesture jerkily. ‘Doctor Caligari’: Off-balance to a fault 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Just as awful, Mr. Ward, added, would be to drop one of the puppets, because they can’t get up either. Arts & Leisure: ?69?S.,? Shackleton Tale, Comes to BAM Next Wave Festival 2011-10-30T03:00:38Z

He was also thinking about a kind of Indonesian puppet show that lasts eight hours and is performed by a puppeteer on a complex ensemble of instruments called a gamelan. An Art of Loopholes 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z

Linz, who also teaches classes on puppeteering, says that there are some techniques to get puppets to show off their mood, however. 15 secrets of "Sesame Street" puppeteers 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z

Trump has played the media like a puppet. Perspective | 50 years ago, a local newspaper dominated the story of the Kent State tragedy. Could that still happen? 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z

Young visitors will also be able to make their own shadow puppets and go on tours of the Bard exhibition “Circus in the City: New York, 1793-2010,” which runs through Feb. 3. Spare Times for Children, for Jan. 25-31 2013-01-24T22:45:09Z

We perceive onstage not personalities but vivid puppets, drawn to their doom by forces outside themselves. Review: ‘Written on Skin,’ an Opera of Love, Betrayal and a Little Cannibalism 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z

While touching on serious topics like racism and the Depression, it also offers joyful music and multiple kinds of puppets, all operated by Cannon. A Puppet Festival Returns to New York, All Grown Up 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z

At one point the determined prince builds a wooden puppet of himself and places it above the trees to entice the princess. Music Review: Pierre Boulez Conducts Met Orchestra at Carnegie 2010-05-17T22:00:00Z

Great book, great film - how about a great puppet show? Polly Dunbar's top 10 books that would make great puppet shows 2013-04-18T13:24:46Z

She was looking for a ceremony that truly represented her and her fiancé, so Lily Gershon of LilyPad Puppet Theatre and the bride’s sister, was their giant puppet officiant. Walking Down the Aisle Alone 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z

Using armatures, the puppets are all posed with animated expressions and body language. Jim Henson's universe: Muppets, 'Sesame Street,' Fraggles and more, all in one traveling exhibition 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z

The puppet would not be prevented from crossing the municipality’s main town of Kalambaka on its way through Greece, the council decided, but would not be allowed in villages close to the monasteries. Giant Puppet Ruffles Some Feathers on a Long Walk Through Greece 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

However, as long as his primary goal is to avoid looking bad, he will sulk and agonize and work his puppet strings to get the behavior he wants from you. Her past? Boyfriend doesn’t want to hear it 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

The blankness of the wood turns the subjects into something like a puppet or a doll — a thing that looks human but is not. Comic sights, mysterious sounds at Martin Kersels show 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

Looking like puppets themselves, the dancers wear masks. Review: Pontus Lidberg Dance, a Swirl of Choreography and Even Puppets at the Joyce Theater 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

If they are mentioned at all, it is usually as a shameful prelude to Nazi occupation and the dark years of the Vichy puppet regime. As ‘tiny ships’ Dunkirk blockbuster goes global, locals look for an upturn in their fortunes 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z

Cultural connection or disconnect: On the second day, we traveled to a nearby village where shadow puppets are crafted. What a Trip: Enlightenment in the caves of Indonesia 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

Her photographs and videos are now populated by shadow puppets, skateboarders and children’s television characters instead of avatars. Art in Review: CAO FEI: ?Play Time? 2011-05-26T21:50:35Z

The famously vicious 1980s puppet show "Spitting Image", broadcast on the main commercial channel ITV, had a grotesquely domineering Margaret Thatcher as its central character. Brits still waiting for full Brexit comedy dividend 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

Art projects include making pinhole pictures, shadow puppet theater and menorah collages. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z

Here, paintings — including several never seen in the United States — costumes, furnishings, glass, masks, a puppet theater and ceremonial regalia celebrate the city that was home to Casanova, Vivaldi and Tiepolo. Notable Museum Openings This Spring and Summer 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z

But first he’s leading young fans in a workshop to design paper bag puppets and perform with them; apparently, he’s a visual artist, too. 718-463-7700, Ext. Events for Children in NYC This Week 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

“They completely underestimated us, thinking we were little puppets who believed what the ‘great socialists’ said,” he told Reuters. Berlin festival movie tells true story of Cold War rebels with a cause 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z

Its scenes, which incorporated Mr. Lee’s puppets, were staged all around the campus, with the spectators transported from one scene to the next in hay wagons. Ralph Lee, Father of Puppets and a New York Parade, Dies at 87 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z

Yes, arts and crafts supplies — about 1,300 yards of yarn, 10,500 googly eyes and 5,300 socks for theatergoers to use to make their own sock puppets before the show. These two artistic directors collaborate on the stage and in life 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z

With the help of friends, puppets and guest stars, the host used his quirky TV program “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” to educate youngsters on weighty issues like death, divorce and racism. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor?’ and ‘One Day at a Time’ 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z

His younger son loves it, his employees are charmed and energised, and a montage of Gibson and Foster having newly-exotic sex is hard to forget, and not just because of the hand puppet. SXSW 2011: The Beaver - review 2011-03-17T10:10:14Z

Amusingly Mr. Bourne conveys a whiff of “Rosemary’s Baby” about the baby Aurora, who initially appears as an adorably monstrous puppet. Dance Review: Matthew Bourne’s ‘Sleeping Beauty’ at Sadler’s Wells 2013-01-02T22:34:59Z

The two Muppets and their invisible operators delighted the crew of show workers with their playful banter and puppet antics. Oscar turns up the star power for final rehearsal 2012-02-26T03:17:14Z

Featuring three stages, the event will include entertainers like the pop group Tim Kubart and the Space Cadets, the magician the Amazing Max and a puppet show by the director of the Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater. Spare Times for Children Listings for Oct. 14-20 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

It “represents the whole immigrant ethos of the Lower East Side, channeled through the lens of these other citizens that are puppets,” said Libertad O. Guerra, the executive director of the Clemente. A Puppet Festival Returns to New York, All Grown Up 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z

Aside from the occasional puppet show, family fare is rarely on the bill at the festival, and “Monkey” represented a bold effort to expand the age range of its audiences, and the cultural range, too. Summing Up the Lincoln Center Festival 2013-07-31T12:30:54Z

It was an enchanting scene with piglet puppets, waving stars and tinkling chimes. As anti-vaxx dispute rages, attention turns to California's Waldorf schools 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z

I played a polar bear glove puppet for Birds Eye Fish Fingers. Willem Dafoe: ‘I’ve thought about murder many times’ 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z

Using four of his puppets, she re-enacts some of his best known works, but she has not found a way to spark them with life. First Up in La MaMa’s Return: Strange, Enchanting Puppetry 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

The production is schoolwork for the UConn students, the final product of a semester-long seminar in their studies for either a bachelor's or master's degree in puppet arts. UConn's top puppetry program collaborates with Boston Pops 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

Out with the horror musicals and in with the profane plays starring sock puppets at Studio Theatre next summer. Presenting . . . a play featuring a sock puppet armed with blue vocabulary 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

The puppets play the the subsidiary characters, supplemented by the actors’ virtuosity and the audience’s imagination. A puppet version of Jane Austen's 'Northanger Abbey' is modest success 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z

Watched by millions, it included puppets, animated segments, songs, books read aloud and special guests like Dolly Parton and Andy Griffith. Cosmo Allegretti, ‘Captain Kangaroo’ Actor and Puppeteer, Dies at 86 2013-08-08T14:04:03Z

Mr. Kentridge, as is his way in directing opera, creates a constantly varying backdrop of animations, drawings and films for the cast and puppets to play against. Review: Puppets Are the Stars in ‘Il Ritorno d’Ulisse’ 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

The puppet figures and mask-dominated costumes worn by the supporting villains still seem to have wandered in from a theme park. | 'Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark': 1 Radioactive Bite, 8 Legs and 183 Previews 2011-06-15T02:30:06Z

“Maybe we learn a song or dance or doing a puppet.” The play that started without a single written word: '946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips' 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z

The actress will appear in a segment with puppet Elmo, explaining the word "nibble", while Carell will help explain the word "vote". Berry to guest on Sesame Street 2012-08-08T15:43:46Z

One source who witnessed the puppet incident and a series of other remarks Spottiswood allegedly directed at that woman said, "I could see a change in her — a kind of shutting down." "He made their lives miserable": How the showrunner of a popular courtroom drama finally got fired 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

Eastern time on Monday and continuing till 6 a.m. on Tuesday, those pint-size insomniacs, should they stir and glance at the television, will see a loop of sleeping puppets and human characters. Critic’s Notebook: Sprout Channel’s ‘Snooze-a-Thon’ on Christmas Eve 2012-12-23T22:47:32Z

Foster took advice from Muppets creator Jim Henson, amongst others, on the glove puppet's appearance, as well as meeting ventriloquists for advice on the voice. 'I'm the Beaver' 2011-06-17T07:30:51Z

So none of the three dictators would have found fault with Labour's kitsch vision of a nuclear couple, who have apparently given birth to puppets, staring across iridescent green fields towards a blazing sun. General election 2010: Labour's strange field trip 2010-04-12T16:50:00Z

Yup, as ever, the characters are all puppets — here manipulated by a local cast of talented singing actors. In the mood for a musical? Here are 4 on local stages 2012-11-08T21:11:06Z

Johnson, boyish and brush-cut, says: “People told us, ‘You can’t make puppets that look too real, because it will be disturbing and off-putting.’ Charlie Kaufman on weirdness, failure and his new puppet noir 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

“La Chienne,” which is introduced as a puppet show that is “neither a comedy nor a tragedy,” is infused with the joy of moviemaking. ‘La Chienne’ and ‘A Married Woman’: The Better Half, in Dark Strokes 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

Three of the singer-songwriter’s former assistants also called Kelly a “puppet master” who held one of them “against a tree and slapped her outside a Subway sandwich shop in spring 2013.” R. Kelly Denies Sex Cult Allegations in New Video 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z

“Megyn Kelly is a puppet. She is a beautiful woman who the corporate structure uses to push their agenda,” Jones said. What to Know About Megyn Kelly's Controversial Interview With Alex Jones 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

In Carey’s supple novel, equal parts thriller and horror, a divorced mom of two finds herself committing violent acts when someone — or something — slips into her mind and controls her “like a puppet.” 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

One delightfully tacky thing this “Little Shop” won’t feature is an actual Audrey II puppet, long a mainstay of “Little Shop” productions. After 36 years, ‘Little Shop,’ a ‘close to perfect’ musical, comes to the Kennedy Center 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

He soon meets the street’s inhabitants — large-headed hand puppets with big eyes, huge mouths and short arms — and the human puppeteers who give them life. Balagan’s ‘Avenue Q’: puppets behaving badly | Theater review 2012-11-23T21:31:07Z

Is this a good outcome for Tom, this new role as puppet C.E.O.? In ‘Succession,’ Tom and Greg Were Never Playing the Long Game 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z

She does a pole dance for puppet rabbits and came in with some moves she cribbed off YouTube. Elizabeth Banks Was a Frustrated Actress. Now She’s a Determined Mogul. 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z

In “12 Rules,” he attacks Elmo: “I always hated that creepy, whiny puppet.” Jordan Peterson is on a crusade to toughen up young men. It’s landed him on our cultural divide. 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

The festival celebrates miniature and puppet theaters, a popular 19th-century art form, from around the world. ?Kamp,? Auschwitz Tableau, Comes to St. Ann?s Warehouse 2010-05-31T22:04:00Z

She is a puppet — and kudos to her creator, Mr. Augustine, for putting her on this earth. Review: In ‘The God Projekt,’ He’s Old and Alone but Still Almighty 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z

The key to “Spitting Image” is the puppets: they are the stars. How Do You Play Margaret Thatcher? Like This 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

The last chancellor of Weimar Germany sat in a Rococo palace in Berlin; the last emperor of China was installed on a puppet throne in Manchukuo. Picasso in 1932: Ingenious, Exhausting, Relentless 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z

As she became more strident, the puppet became more manic and manly. Margaret Thatcher and Spitting Image: we had no idea we would be joined at the hip 2013-04-17T19:00:01Z

The Tang Hall will showcase jades, bronzes, ceramics, textiles, burial objects and even a puppet theater. China exhibit hall coming to Field Museum 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

The utilization of the puppet must have made things a lot easier, but what was it like working with the actual dog? "Talk to Me" directors on the film's most shocking scene 2023-08-05T04:00:00Z

Perô, or The Mysteries of the Night Family-friendly fable about a brokenhearted baker features puppets, actors and live music; for ages 7 and up. L.A. theater openings, Feb. 14-21: 'Past Time,' 'Pocatello' and more 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

MTV's "The Real World" acts as puppet master, gathering young contestants in a house and recording and editing their interactions. Rodney King beating helped drive video revolution 2012-06-18T20:48:08Z

It is quite difficult to make puppets of people who haven't got any lines on their faces. Political satire 2010-04-17T23:08:00Z

The book has all the simple ingredients for a great puppet show: exotic forest backdrops, fun animal characters and of-course Elmer, the patchwork elephant; he would make a glorious puppet. Polly Dunbar's top 10 books that would make great puppet shows 2013-04-18T13:24:46Z

And it explains how Kermin became interested enough in electronics to name his son Radar, and to be able to create the extremely sophisticated robotic models that don’t deserve to be called puppets at all. Review: In Reif Larsen’s ‘I Am Radar,’ an Odyssey of Exploding Particles 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

“Candle Cove” is an unnerving puppet show that supposedly ran on public access television decades ago — but actually only existed as an internet legend. What’s on TV: ‘When the Beat Drops’ and ‘I’m Gonna Git You Sucka’ 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

It was Tom Morris, then associate director of the National, who co-directed War Horse, a collaboration with the South African puppet company Handspring. Puppets in Dreamland from the man behind War Horse 2012-10-07T18:04:51Z

She was never keen on being a studio puppet anyway. Robin Wright: 'I'm in my 40s and I don't inject my face with Botox' 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

Later in the 80s I saw him in puppet form on Spitting Image, raising one eyebrow, then the other. 'Keeping the British end up': Roger Moore's career in clips 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

But in “Salome” he knew that “there should be a moment when we see behind the puppet, and when the puppeteer becomes much more important than her puppet.” It’s ‘Salome.’ But With Puppets. 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

Cheong’s work focused on scenes of the “everyday,” but went beyond depicting ordinary people engaged in common activities, like mending fishing nets or watching puppet shows, though there are plenty of those in the exhibition. Singapore Honors a Son of China 2010-10-06T11:30:00Z

They don’t want to be puppets on a string. | 'Lysistrata': When the Puppets Called a Sex Strike 2011-02-08T23:43:08Z

Its unique inventiveness arises from engagement with the Internet, where sock puppets and catfish play. 'UH-OH: Frances Stark, 1991-2015' at Hammer Museum is an enthralling midcareer survey 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

Just as the PG Tips chimps were ditched for Johnny Vegas's sock puppet, shifting attitudes have meant flesh-and-blood monkeys are all but unemployed at the movies. Monkey business: primates on film 2011-08-03T20:00:00Z

To the rhythmic beat of cymbals, drums and a bamboo harmonica, the hand-held puppets wearing brightly colored batik headdresses and sarongs fight, and one gets flung off the stage. Puppet reborn: Indonesian pulls strings to revive near-dead art form 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

The dog, as you may know, is a puppet. 'Jack & Triumph Show' a twistedly sweet tale of a boy, his dog 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

Several are video projections, one set up like a puppet theater, which play intermittently. Warm spots in Pierre Huyghe's often chilly Conceptualism at LACMA 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

It barely covers key parts of Stanley as he shouts for Stella, who descends toward him like a stringed puppet in billowing white drifts. Theater: In the Land of Moli?re, an Oriental 'Streetcar' 2011-02-14T16:43:52Z

A moving scene depicts a puppet version of Yang Shen enduring the humiliating re-education process that artists and intellectuals were forced to undergo in this grim period in Chinese history. Theater Review: ‘Hand Stories,’ by the Puppeteer Yeung Fai at Lincoln Center 2012-07-19T21:26:04Z

The complex hosts dance performances, concerts, puppet shows and poetry readings. Taiwan's Cloud Gate Dance Theatre heads to L.A. with force of nature 'Rice' 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z