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

EdSource · When teens counsel teens: Why peer support programs are growing Puppetry is more than just child’s play at Children’s Fairyland, Oakland’s iconic storybook theme park. Small children have ...

Experience shadow puppetry by firelight! Witness scenes from the dramatic epic Ramayana, complete with scenes of battles, trickery, and the natural world, performed by masters of Tholpavakoothu, a ...

Cattywampus Puppet Council has brought big puppet magic to the city for over a decade. In addition to bringing its puppets to events around town, the nonprofit also offers a UT course, hosts workshops ...

When puppets speak, people listen, says artist, educator and puppeteer Schroeder Cherry. Cherry uses puppet play to teach people about the U.S. African diaspora. Organizers of his new “Spirit of Play: ...

Puppets are everywhere—on beloved TV shows and movies, in local theatre productions, in classrooms, and even at the doctor’s office. And while most parents may not know this, puppets are also integral ...

A puppeteer plays a mourning mother in Gaza during a performance of Our Domestic Resurrection Revolution In Progress! in Ypsilanti, Mich. (Timothy Chen Allen) Generations of peacenik Americans first ...

Trouble Puppet has long been one of Austin’s stellar theatre companies. They are incomparable creatives whose tools are only limited by imagination and UNDARK is a prime example of why they have ...

WHEN: 7 p.m. Friday, May 23 (in English); 2 p.m. Saturday, May 24 (in Spanish, with English description); for workshop dates, visit tcataos.org WHERE: Taos Center for the Arts, 145 Paseo Del Pueblo ...