With puppets, projectors and live performances, Manual Cinema creates surreal movies as the audience watches the process unfold. Video shot and edited by Eric Krupke The black silhouette of a girl’s ...

Simple hand shadow puppets like birds and butterflies won’t cut it at this week’s Manual Cinema collaboration with O, Miami. The Chicago-based company brings an entire cinematic show of shadow ...

Masked actors wearing elaborate, feathered costumes manipulated puppets behind a large 15-by-30-foot screen, creating dancing shadows and silhouettes that told an ancient story of love and war. Hamid ...

The Wang Center’s theater in Stony Brook University glowed softly as Wrapped Presence unfolded, a spellbinding shadow puppet performance created by Caroline and Madeleine Borderies, with Andre ...

Don’t be alarmed. But Chicago is having an invasion this month. An invasion … of puppets. The Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival is a brand-new event celebrating the art of puppetry in its ...

Children sat cross-legged in front of the stage, waiting eagerly for a shadow-puppet performance as families gathered at the China Institute on Sunday in New York to celebrate the traditional ...

To create a bedazzling puppet show of light and shadows requires little more than simple equipment, some sleight of hand, and a lot of imagination. At a special workshop, Fantasy Puppet Theatre Works ...

My brush was tiny, more like something you’d use for nail polish. That was apt because I was struggling to paint the toenails of my dragon shadow puppet. Dipping the silken brush into a pot of ...

<p>Song Dongqing performs the Changing Masks puppet show. Face changing is a popular stage technique way to display the complex emotions of the characters. (Aaric Bryan/Daily Inter Lake)</p> <p>Pan ...

This ain’t your kids’ puppet show. A musical puppet performance that follows the metaphysical journey of a suicidal gay teenager will belt out its tunes at the Park Slope gay bar Excelsior on July 27.