Cathy McMorris Rodgers has proved that she is nothing more than a puppet dancing on strings. Those strings are being pulled by the leadership of the tea party. They include people like David and ...

Wordless tales require physically expressive actors … or, in the case of “Crane & Turtle: Images of China,” expressive puppets. In the Northwest Puppet Center’s newest show, the highlight is a ...

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 ...

This man showed Kathputli, a string puppet theatre that is popular in Rajasthan, India. He made the puppet move and look like it was dancing by controlling its strings with his hands. He also made ...

There’s a pantsless clown with an erection running wild onstage. The prankster’s mad skills have patrons doubled over in laughter, an unexpected response, maybe, for a marionette show in the 21st ...

where they were as popular with adults as children. In the sixteenth century, Italian puppet drama blossomed. A writer at the time described these sophisticated string puppets as being ''able to fight ...