Join us for the next Festival: January 15-26, 2025

2024 Show Programs

Loco7 Dance Puppet Theater: Lunch with Sonia

Figurentheater Wilde & Vogel and Grupa Coincidentia: Krabat

Manual Cinema: Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About A Terrible Monster

Theatre Y & Michael Montenegro: Little Carl

Wakka Wakka: The Immortal Jellyfish Girl

Matthew Gawryk & Dan Kerr-Hobert: Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities: A Toy Theater Atlas

Papermoon Puppet Theatre: A Bucket of Beetles

Figurentheater Wilde & Vogel: Spleen

Tarish “Jeghetto” Pipkins: The Hip Hopera of 5P1N0K10

Hamid Rahmanian: Song of the North

Alex and Olmsted: MAROONED! A Space Comedy

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About the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival

The Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival advances the art of puppetry by presenting sophisticated programs vital to the cultural life of Chicago. Engaging and inspiring the largest and most diverse audiences for puppetry possible, the Festival is the biggest event dedicated to puppetry in North America and traditionally offers more than 100 activities annually including performances, workshops, artist instensives, free neighborhood events and symposia to audiences up to 14,000 over 11 days each January. The organization is also home to other key initiatives, including the Chicago Puppet Studio and Chicago Puppet Lab, that nurture the development of puppeteers and deepen the field locally, nationally and internationally with the ultimate goal of promoting peace, equality, mutual understanding, and justice locally and globally.

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312-753-3234
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Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival
410 S Michigan Ave, Studio 310
Chicago, IL 60605