In many a generation, and nearly everywhere in the world, puppets are a given. But if you’re only familiar with the old-school, fuzzy-wuzzy hand puppets that were once so popular in the U.S., or Miss ...

Full disclosure: I’ve never been a fan of puppets or puppetry. It was a surprise, then, that Shadows, Strings and Other Things, the Museum of Anthropology’s exhibition of puppets from Asia, Europe, ...

While the epic Ramakien is told through nang talung, the art of shadow puppetry from southern Thailand, a shadow puppet from Hamburg, Germany, will portray a child waking up in the middle of the night ...

In the movie spoof “This Is Spinal Tap,” the band members knew their days were numbered when they got second billing to a puppet show. “Oh no! ” wailed their manager. “If I told them once, I told them ...

No matter how many times Brian Hull and his five person professional puppeteer team perform "String City: Nashville’s Tradition of Music and Puppetry," they can't help but dance and sing along ...

Most people never start out to become puppet designers and Ed Christie is no exception. But a serendipitous internship at Jim Henson’s Muppet Workshop in New York during college took his love of ...

In the celebrated Paul Gallico novella Love Of Seven Dolls, the tiny wood-and-felt cast of a carnival puppet show, each with its own distinct character and perceptive insights, helps to heal the ...