Alumni Evan Bartoletti and Lisa Lechuga form design company Lechetti Designs. Their latest project together involved designing sets and puppets for the show “Voices Carry,” an interdisciplinary ...

HO CHI MINH CITY: Every Sunday a small room in an apartment building in Ho Chi Minh (HCM) City transforms itself into a lively stage where children learn to give life to strings and puppets. When we ...

Nicole gently grabbed the string and instructed me to hold it with a couple fingers while tilting my hand a bit. And just like that, my puppet came to life and stood string to string with a line of ...

But last year Sims broke up with his fine band of Boot Marionetteers, leaving them with a bunch of unperformable puppet masterpieces, and Sims with the need to start a new troupe as good as his last.

Believed to have found their origins in India about 4,000 years ago, Greek philosopher Plato wrote about “puppets” in his “Allegory of the Caves.” In China, shadow puppetry can be easily traced back ...