He believes that keeping puppeteering alive will encourage new generations of keen theater-goers and patrons of the arts.

Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, Bear in the Big Blue House, Pinocchio. You might not realize it, but puppetry is all around us. Plenty of people grow up watching puppet-based children’s shows, and ...

Expert hopes to keep craft alive as puppetry ‘is an entryway for most kids into theatre’ ...

Traditional puppet theater in Japan attracted droves of spectators in the seventeenth and eighteenth century as one of the country’s most popular forms of mass entertainment. While the art ...

Puppets are everywhere—on beloved TV shows and movies, in local theatre productions, in classrooms, and even at the doctor’s office. And while most parents may not know this, puppets are also integral ...

Stephen Foster, from East Kilbride, is among just a small number of people in the UK still making traditional wooden puppets.