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Puppetry and Object Theatre

This section is full of content about the art and craft of puppetry and object theatre—performances created primarily using puppets and objects, rather than the full bodies of actors. A great introduction to the topic is our 2015 Puppetry series curated by Jean Marie Keevins.

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Dark & Delicious
Video
Dark & Delicious
A Safe Havens Freedom Talk
Thursday 28 March 2024
The Ellen Van Volkenburg Puppetry Symposium
Video
The Ellen Van Volkenburg Puppetry Symposium
Bringing together practicing festival artists with scholars to consider the intersection of puppetry with other disciplines and ideas.
Sunday 28 January 2024
United States
Global Puppetry in the United States
Video
Global Puppetry in the United States
A Presentation of Excerpts from Chinese Theatre Works (New York) and US Karagöz Theatre Company (Washington)
Monday 30 October 2023
New York City
Writing for the Moon (and other adventures in object theater)
Essay

Writing for the Moon (and other adventures in object theater)

19 May 2011

Puppetry is the bastard nephew of so-called legitimate theater. Yet puppetry stubbornly persists, even flourishes, in our digital age as an intentionally Luddite approach to an emphatically live art.

A man holds a puppet above his head in front of a green screen.
Creating Puppet Solidarities
Series

Creating Puppet Solidarities

Puppetry is an ongoing negotiation between human and nonhuman. Puppets play out the way things are, but also the way things can be; and in that regard, they allow us to see our positionality and imagine worlds beyond ourselves. This series showcases myriad shapes and styles and the ways in which these puppets, whether representational or abstract, can form solidarities among humans.

Puppetry
Series

Puppetry

A look at the art form through the eyes of some of its most innovative and stalwart thinkers.