While puppets have long appealed to moppets — upbeat shows filled with marionettes and felt figures have a whimsical way of eliciting giggles from youngsters — puppetry as an art form has long had an ...

Giacomo Puccini’s Madame Butterfly has become a warhorse of the operatic repertoire in the century since its 1904 Milan premiere. American companies stage the tragic love story more frequently than ...

AMES, Iowa – Generations of children have grown up watching Sesame Street and learning from its cast of puppets about issues such as bullying, diversity and divorce. Amanda Petefish-Schrag, an ...

Nick Knave says puppets sometimes have stories of their own to tell. A busker by trade, Knave left “a successful career as a juvenile delinquent” to get into puppetry and launch a new adult puppet ...