Broadway World Features Living Room Tour
Blair Thomas’ LIVING ROOM TOUR to Bring Live Puppet Shows, Food and Drinks to 3 Chicago Homes Blair Thomas & Co. announces the 2017 Living Room Tour – a series […]
Crain’s Winter Cultural Preview
by Anne Spiselman Puppets have been commandeering Chicago stages, and they’re not just for kids. Recent adult puppetry has included a demonic hand puppet possessing the arm of a confused […]
Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival Set For Return
by Hedy Weiss Make way for the marionettes, the shadow puppets, the tiny toy puppets, the Bunraku puppets and the animated objects that behave like puppets. The biannual Chicago International […]
RETURN OF THE PUPPETS!
SECOND CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL PUPPET THEATER FESTIVAL IS JANUARY 19-29, 2017 Popular citywide festival to return with new slate of top puppet shows from Chicago, the U.S. and around the world, presented […]
Puppets: Still Very Much a Thing
As today’s cutting-edge puppeteers peer into the souls of animated objects, they’re seeing the future—or rather, the eternal present—of the theatre. by Scott T. Cummings According to Moses, the cocky […]
Chicago Tonight: Chicago International Puppet Theater Fest
Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival Founder and Artistic Director Blair Thomas tells us about the first Chicago festival to celebrate puppetry in its many forms. Watch the video.
Manual Cinema’s remarkable sleight-of-hand goes far beyond puppetry
by Hedy Weiss A movie complete with inspired soundtrack and old-fashioned film spools. A play, with a quirky love story at its center, but no spoken words. A ballet, but […]
The First-ever Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival Comes to Life
by Gwendolyn Purdom The Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival takes puppets beyond their ‘creepy’ stereotypes When people think of puppets, the crass, stringed characters from “Team America: World Police” may […]
Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival
by Tony Adler Little-known fact: Modern American puppetry was born in Chicago, along with the very word “puppeteer.” According to several sources (including a learned 2010 piece for Huffington Post […]
Chicago International Puppet Theater Fest: The G-rated events
by Web Behrens Chicago International Puppet Theater Fest has something for all ages, but not every show is rated G. Blair Thomas has ambitious plans for the inaugural Chicago International […]
A puppet mocks being human
by Neil Steinberg Were I to live my life again, I’d be a puppeteer. My puppet theater would be called Punch & Judy’s. It would be semi-legendary in Wicker Park, […]
The homemade beauty of “Mariposa Nocturna” marks start of Puppet Theater Festival
by Hedy Weiss The inaugural edition of the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival began Wednesday evening with “Mariposa Nocturne: A Puppet Triptych,” a beguiling work by Chicago’s Stephanie Diaz and […]
