Shadow puppets are accompanied by dancing at Chris Myer's Fire in the Head performance, as part of French Institute Alliance Français's Crossing the Line festival (all photos by Aditi Jhaveri) ...

Cal Performances is presenting a co-commissioned production, The 4th Witch by Manual Cinema, on Nov. 22 in UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall. Fifteen years ago, artist Julia Miller found an old overhead ...

What happens when you bring together three visionary Bay Area theater creators who have never worked together before? In the case of “Sojourner ZY,” you get a futuristic space fantasy full of liquid, ...

Khmer shadow theatre is a form of shadow play in which leather shadow puppets are used Sorn Soran a Cambodian shadow puppet maker and performer explains why he became ...

There’s something moving in the shadows on the rooftop of the Bakken Museum in Minneapolis. Or are the shadows moving? Open Eye Theatre and the Bakken Museum are presenting a shadow puppet play ...

String and Shadow Puppet Theater’s summer shows have taken audiences to the clouds, down a wishing well and into outer space. For its sixth annual al fresco production, the Olympia troupe is visiting ...

The Humboldt County Library and Humboldt Literacy Project invite families to a Family Literacy Party library tour featuring James Hildebrandt and Laura Munoz in “The Mouse and the Mountain Lion,” a ...

Consider, if you will, puppetry as the ultimate handmade art form. Not only are puppets often created by hand, they require human activation. “I think the reason people are so drawn to puppetry, ...

String and Shadow Puppet Theater’s fifth annual al fresco show, “Or So It Would Seam,” boldly goes where the Olympia troupe has never gone before: to outer space, following the voyage of a starship ...