Get all the top news & discounts for Chicago & beyond. Book of Mountains and Seas is inspired by the ancient compilation of Chinese myths and legends of the same title – 山海經 (Shanhai jing)- first ...

As part of its 2024 Spring Puppet Performance Series, the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut will bring back the popular Chinese Theatre Works company of New ...

Harrison Greene puppeteering at Friday’s show. Chinese Theatre Works, based in New York, performs classical Chinese theatre arts and western fusion shows. Photo by Christina Roby/The Daily Campus ...

“Scene of Souls in Hell” (19th century), donkey skin; Shaanxi, China (all images courtesy Museu do Oriente) LISBON — Asian shadow theater is catnip for those with energetic imaginations. Its ...

A performance at Shunyi Grand Theatre in Beijing. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn] Shunyi Grand Theatre in Beijing ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Hua Hua Zhang is on the cutting edge of contemporary puppetry as the founder and artistic director of her company called Visual Expressions. She says she is creating a "new style" of ...

Theater, music, dance, comedy: Chicagoans have many reasons to be proud of their city’s performing arts scene. But even arts aficionados may not know that the term “puppeteer” originated in Chicago — ...

880-01 "Catalog of an exhibition held at the Center for Puppetry Arts, January 26-April 14, 1984"--T.p. verso. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile ...

In this picture taken on May 10, 2019, Beijing Shadow Show Troupe puppeteers conduct a performance for schoolchildren in Beijing. Shadow puppets flitting across screens and reliving age old stories ...