Editor’s Note: The Puppet Moment
There’s no great mystery why they’re so popular, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a mystique, and plenty of mystery worth exploring, about puppets.
Category Archives: Special Section
TCG in Cleveland: Shining Light on a Future That’s Already Here
With a renewed focus on equity, diversity, and inclusion, the 25th conference brought together the nation’s theatremakers to share strategies and challenges, as well as drinks and laughs.
Offscript: Jane Chu, the NEA, and the Kilroys
This week’s guest is chairman of the NEA Jane Chu, who discusses arts funding and ‘South Pacific.’ Plus, highlights from the TCG National Conference in Cleveland and a discussion of the new Kilroy’s list.
Have You Met Miss (Rhodessa) Jones? She Owns the Earth and Sky
She comes from a large family of theatremakers. Is it any wonder she makes family, and theatre, everywhere she goes, from Cultural Odyssey to the California’s prisons?
Puppets: Still Very Much a Thing
As today’s cutting-edge puppeteers peer into the souls of animated objects, they’re seeing the future—or rather, the eternal present—of the theatre.
Time Slips Through the Work of Sandglass Theater
Their work tackles existential dilemmas and the challenges of aging; the Vermont-based company also hosts family-friendly festivals each summer.
Manual Cinema: The Life and Death of Objects, Including Humans
The hard-to-classify work of this multimedia Chicago company is coming out of the shadows.
#TCG15 Plenary 4: Life-Saving, Game-Changing, and Stories That Matter
The TCG conference closed with a panel of artistic leaders discussing artistic risk vs. institution-building, and feted two dedicated field veterans, Rhodessa Jones and Jim O’Quinn.
#TCG15 Plenary 3: The How and the Why of Storytelling
Conference attendees listened to one of America’s great listeners, StoryCorps’ Dave Isay, as he shared both how he captures people’s lives on tape—and why it’s worth doing.
#TCG15 Plenary 2: The Democracy of Consciousness
Access and daring, expression and dramatic action were among the themes of a meaty morning plenary with ‘Fun Home’ writer Lisa Kron and NEA chairman Jane Chu.
