When Theater on the Verge Director Troy Nickerson first read the 2015 dark comedy play Hand to God, he thought it’d be crazy ...

J. Brodie Shirey is a Contributor from the United States who currently lives in York, Pennsylvania. He's just a simple man trying to make his way in the universe, but aren’t we all? Brodie is a big ...

Althea Clayton, a puppeteer with Paperhand Puppet Intervention, looks out from a river puppet during a rehearsal for the organization’s show, “The Gift,” on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025, at the Forest ...

Set in the world of the theater, Once Upon a Puppet is an adventure 2.5D puzzle-platformer with puppeteering-inspired gameplay. Welcome to Once Upon a Puppet, a 2.5D puzzle-platformer that unfolds ...

Brian Henson’s Puppet Up!, will play for a limited eight performances only at the Ricardo Montalbán Theatre. This is no ...

It started with the noblest of intentions. Actor Shaun Michael McNamara had been in Los Angeles for a few years, working primarily at Disneyland and Universal Studios, when he decided to create an ...

Theater artist Jacky Kelsey was driving back from their grandmother’s farm when five white owls appeared out of nowhere and flew over the car. It was a “spooky, alien site,” they said. Throughout ...

When teachers noticed that children in Oakland preschool and kindergarten classrooms were not engaging in imaginative play or interacting with each other as much after the pandemic, staff at ...

Puppetry is more than just child’s play at Children’s Fairyland, Oakland’s iconic storybook theme park. Small children have been stimulated by the wonders of live performance at the Storybook Puppet ...