The production demanded a talented and versatile cast, embodying the dancer-actor-musician tradition central to Asian theatre ...

Make way, ghosts of holiday shows past: it’s a new year for Chicago theater, and as usual, the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival is kicking it off with a bang. Now in its seventh ...

A new exhibition will showcase the work of a man described by George Bernard Shaw as "the chief living puppet master". Waldo Lanchester was well known for work with the Lanchester Marionettes ...

If unchecked, some board evaluations can be more of a choreographed performance – as in the spectacle of a wayang, or local street opera. Board evaluations are meant to be an exercise in ...

The streets of Sta. Ana in Pampanga came alive once again with the lively movements of “Majigangga,” towering mechanical puppets celebrated for their unique designs and captivating dances. The ...

An Indian Renaissance, between 250 BC to 1200 CE? That’s what William Dalrymple’s latest book asserts. An ambitious read, the book narrates the millennial spread of “Indian religions, philosophies and ...

Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s former President and a close ally of Vladimir Putin, has encouraged migrants to “commit atrocities” in an unhinged rant as he called for his country to “punish ...

An album of firsts and lasts for Metallica hit the street on March 3, 1986. Master of Puppets was the band’s first record for a major label; their first to make the American Top 30; their last ...

“Wayang kulit”, a theatrical art form once popular ... So, with this animatronic shadow puppet show, it will be a new phenomenon for these youths,” he said at a performance at a mall in ...

In modern daily Javanese and Indonesian vocabulary, wayang can refer to the puppet itself or the whole puppet theatre performance. While kulit means skin or leather, the material from which the fi ...