Despite the Pandemic, It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like ‘Christmas Carol’
Amid the constraints of social distancing, perhaps more urgently because of them, many U.S. theatres are finding ways to bring audiences an annual dose of Dickens.
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Writers Theatre Announces Updates to 2020-21 Season
The season will include productions from Black Lives Black Words International Project and Manual Cinema.
City Theatre Announces Updated 2020-21 Season
The Pittsburgh company will present a drive-in festival, virtual content, and live productions.
‘You Can Be Anything’: Myra Su’s Puppet Worlds
Using crankies and shadow puppets, among other forms, the Chicago artist distills her experiences into live visual story events.
Feasting in the Festival Garden
New York’s annual experimental theatre sampler boasts plenty of chills and frills, but the real attraction is carefully crafted mayhem.
Big Bad Boar: A Puppet Comes to Life in ‘Mr. and Mrs. Pennyworth’
Puppet designer Blair Thomas explains how he created talking puppets for the Lookingglass Theatre production.
6 Shows That Perfectly Combine Tech and Text
Face tracking, augmented reality, wearable lights—incorporating technology onstage has never been easier or cheaper, and it can serve rather supersede storytelling.
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.
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.
