Since the retirement of Mesner Puppet Theater creator Paul Mesner, the nonprofit arts organization moved to a new home and rebranded as What If Puppets. They're also doubling down on a new focus ...

What Is the Little White Puppet With a Green Hat on TikTok? The puppet is known as Mestre Ensinador, which means "master teacher" or "master professor" in Portuguese. Its outfit consists of a ...

Minnesota is the center of American puppetry this week. Puppet Fest 2005 is going on now in Minneapolis, featuring giant puppets, human-sized puppets, marionettes, shadow puppets, stick puppets ...

The puppets are an experiment by Color Club in Irving Park. Beneath the googly eyes, there’s a truism: When we talk to puppets, we are no longer ourselves.

Puppets and cast members of Plexus Polaire’s “Moby Dick,” part of the 2023 edition of the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival.

A year removed from the company he founded, Luke Kanies is still undecided on his next steps, but he's more aware of the problems facing startup founders, including the hunt for executive talent.

Puppets have always been part of our city’s theatrical landscape and we can claim the man who created that wildly popular TV puppet gang, Chicago-born Burr Tillstrom and his “Kukla, Fran and ...