In Wakka Wakka’s Drama Desk-nominated musical, “Dead as a Dodo,” puppets own the spotlight. Humans naturally play an essential role (pulling the strings) in the latest touring show from the Norway-New ...
The best show I saw at the first Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival in 2015 was “The Table” by England's Blind Summit Theatre. It consisted simply of a rectangular table and a single puppet ...
Rotund, ground-dwelling and unafraid of humans to its own peril, the famed dodo bird became an icon of extinction when it disappeared from the island of Mauritius, and from Earth, in the 17th century, ...
The dodo is usually depicted as a slow, dim-witted, goofy-looking bird, a total evolutionary loser. But what if, for all these centuries, the dodo bird has just been misunderstood? Samuel Alito raises ...
The slaty-masked tinamou, recently discovered in Brazil, is utterly unafraid of people. That could be its undoing, ornithologists worry. By Joe Trezza Rotund, ground-dwelling and unafraid of humans to ...
The 8th Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival will bring together the world’s leading contemporary puppet artists from January 21–February 1, 2026, transforming the city into a stage for ...
SEND POLICE OFFICERS TO TRAINING COURSES. A MUSICAL COMBINING PUPPETRY WITH STUNNING VISUAL EFFECTS PREMIERES TONIGHT AT ACTORS THEATER OF LOUISVILLE. OUR SAM CARTER GOT AN UP CLOSE LOOK AT DEAD AS A ...
A biotech startup is taking the first real steps towards bringing the dodo bird back from extinction. No one has seen this bird since the late 17th century, but that doesn't mean it has been forgotten ...
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EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — A very unique musical play that incorporates imaginative and inventive puppeteering is coming to El Paso this weekend for the first time. Created by Wakka Wakka Productions, a ...
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