GEORGE TOWN: One of Penang’s most iconic heritage treasures will finally be reopened, nearly four years after being shuttered by the Covid-19 pandemic’s movement control order (MCO). The Teochew ...
Lights dim in the Rhode Island School of Design’s Metcalf Auditorium as the chatter of the audience comes to a halt. On stage, two rod marionette puppets appear, passing a ball back and forth and ...
The head is carved from wood. Mechanisms in the hollow head move the eyes and mouth. The main rod, made either of wood or bamboo, runs through the neck to the head, and the length varies. The hand ...
The Bread and Puppet Theater was founded in 1963 on New York City’s Lower East Side. It gets its name from the fact that Shumann himself would bake dozens of loaves of sourdough bread, giving them ...
Bunraku is a traditional puppet performance in Japan. A Bunraku group in Odawara, Shimonakaza, performs a traditional puppet show called "Sagami Ningyou Shibai" that is National Designated Important ...