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Home » puppets

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Posted inCity Life

Celebrations and dance floors

by Salem Collo-Julin, Kerry Reid, Janaya Greene and Micco Caporale January 14, 2022January 14, 2022

Looking for some ways to spice up your winter free time? We’ve got you covered, just read on. FRI 1/14 It’s certainly been gloomy and gray enough lately to turn your mind to gothic fancies, and A Red Orchid Theatre (1531 N. Wells) feeds that inclination with the Chicago premiere of Jen Silverman’s The Moors. […]

Posted inCity Life

Readings, livestreams, and drunk farmers

by Salem Collo-Julin September 11, 2020August 18, 2021

Upcoming events and distractions from our listings coordinator

Posted inMusic

Krampus 1,000,000 A.D. on the gig poster of the week

by Salem Collo-Julin December 4, 2019August 18, 2021

This week’s featured gig poster was designed by local artist EC Brown.

Posted inFilm

Three short films demonstrate the power of puppets

by Andrea Gronvall April 12, 2019August 18, 2021

Figures made of cloth and sticks bring the atrocities of the Belgian Congo, a nudist colony, and lonely workers on the night shift to life.

Posted inBlogs

Manual Cinema comes home to debut The End of TV

by Tyra Nicole Triche July 17, 2018August 18, 2021

The shadow puppetry performance collective will be producing a two-week run of the show at the Chopin Theatre.

Posted inArts & Culture

Growing up furry on Avenue Q

by Albert Williams July 5, 2018August 18, 2021

Aimless college grads still need their own Sesame Street.

Posted inBlogs

Up yours! A satanic Kermit takes over a good Lutheran kid in Victory Gardens’ Hand to God

by Tony Adler September 29, 2016August 18, 2021

Alex Weisman is masterfully schizoid in a dark comedy written by Robert Askins and directed by Gary Griffin.

Posted inBlogs

Reader’s Agenda Mon 9/29: Nasty, Brutish, and Short, ‘Hats Off to Dr. Seuss!,’ and Earth

by Brianna Wellen September 29, 2014August 18, 2021

What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Monday, September 29

Puppeteer Ralph Kipniss in his Michigan City basement
Posted inArts & Culture

The great puppet caper

by Gwynedd Stuart November 6, 2013August 19, 2021

The story behind a Wicker Park building full of “creepy wooden dolls with strings”

Posted inNews & Politics

This week’s Chicagoan: Chris McBrien, educational performer

by Anne Ford August 26, 2013August 19, 2021

This week’s Chicagoan is Chris McBrien, educational performer

The Cupcakes
Posted inArts & Culture

The Reader’s guide to the Chicago Women’s Funny Festival

by Jena Cutie June 6, 2013August 19, 2021

Comics from LA to PA perform at the second annual Chicago Women’s Funny Festival.

Posted inBlogs

Reader’s Agenda Mon 3/4: The Greens, Pulaski Day, and puppets

by Katie Kather March 4, 2013August 19, 2021

What’s on the Reader’s Agenda for Monday, March 4, 2013.

Posted inBlogs

Odds N Friends, A History of Everything, and other arty stuff to do this weekend

by Elly Fishman June 1, 2012August 19, 2021

Arty stuff to do this weekend

Posted inArts & Culture

Prospero puts on a play

by Tony Adler February 2, 2012August 19, 2021

The Tempest is reimagined in The Feast

The Four Food Groups (Sat 9/3, 10 PM, Sun 9/4, 7 PM, Sat 9/10, 8:30 PM, Doppler Stage, 1915 S. Halsted)
Posted inArts & Culture

The Chicago Fringe Festival’s second year

by Asher Klein September 1, 2011August 19, 2021

People are always doing awesome, out-there stuff with puppets at fringe festivals—my first fringe experience involved tiny ninjas acting out Hamlet. Among the 47 entries in this year’s Chicago Fringe Festival is an Avenue Q-style staging of George Romero’s zombie classic, Night of the Living Dead, by Milwaukee’s Angry Young Men Ltd. (Sun 9/4, 7 […]

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