Infused with puppetry, humor, and stunningly innovative visual effects, Dead as a Dodo is a mesmerizing musical odyssey about survival, transformation, and the power of true friendship.
Join top supporters, festival leadership, staff and artistic directors from this year’s international companies to toast the opening of the 8th edition of the festival.
Celebrate opening night with the artists who have come to Chicago to share their astonishing and delightful acts for the next 12 days of the festival.
Welcome to The Harlem Doll Palace, based on the true story of Lenon Holder Hoyt, better known as Aunt Len, a public school art teacher for 40 years who created a doll museum in her Harlem brownstone.
A Doll’s House brings together puppets, actors, music and video projections in this eerie retelling of Henrik Ibsen’s 1879 play, one of the great Nordic classics.
The Puppet Festival’s annual Free Neighborhood Tour brings free, family-friendly performances to locations outside of Chicago’s theaters to foster an appreciation for puppetry throughout the city.
A new and fantastic tale from Chicago’s Manual Cinema, inspired by elements of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, in which a girl escapes war and flees into a dark forest.
Miniature raconteur and sequined pyro Laura Heit performs teeny tiny puppet shows inside matchboxes. “The smallest, greatest, bravest, show in the world!”
A Chicago premiere, Rhynoceron traces the true events surrounding the arrival of a one-horned rhinoceros to Renaissance Europe, sparking an obsession that continued for hundreds of years.
A Puppet Fest first! Don’t miss this unique farm-to-table, family-style dinner for 12 people, paired with a five-minute puppet show performed for each guest, one at a time.
