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Guest Artist RED HERRING PUPPETS will present "THE UGLY DUCKLING" from May 4 through 7. Red Herring Puppets present the classic folktale with original music and lively hand and rod puppets. An "ugly ...

Q. What do you call the work that you do? A. Ultimately, I consider myself a performer. That takes various forms. I started out acting, doing a lot of different kinds of theater in Chicago. … For me, ...

The head is carved from wood. Mechanisms in the hollow head move the eyes and mouth. The main rod, made either of wood or bamboo, runs through the neck to the head, and the length varies. The hand ...

Having the left hand know what the right hand is doing is always a good idea, but especially if the hands belong to two actors operating the same puppet. Such is the case with Nicky, a puppet in the ...

It barely gets any attention, but the Storybook Puppet Theater at Children's Fairyland in Oakland (fairyland.org) is the longest continually running puppet theater in the United States. Founded in ...