The Sugar Hole puppets are an odd bunch. Since May they have appeared every Saturday and Sunday and offered passersby cones of ice cream. When the weather turned, they began serving soup, hand pies, ...

When teachers noticed that children in Oakland preschool and kindergarten classrooms were not engaging in imaginative play or interacting with each other as much after the pandemic, staff at ...

Lying next to a giant Frankenstein monster’s head one night in 1996, under the stage at Steppenwolf Theatre, I was told by a man named Blair Thomas, “We are aware that we are making things that people ...

Editor's Note: This interview is part of an ongoing Star series highlighting Kansas Citians from historically underrepresented communities and their impact on our region. The series builds on The Star ...

Matthew Tye holds puppet Sir Ebral, a character seen in "Election Day" at Appleseed Avenue, an escape room venue featuring puppets. (Juliana Yamada / Los Angeles Times) I am standing on what looks ...

Most people think of shows with puppets as being something for younger audiences, but like any art form, puppetry can be used to great effect in any genre aimed at any age. It doesn't happen often, ...

Day by day it becomes more difficult to write anything new or different about our country. Perhaps it’s because the figures who hog the space on our front pages no longer seem human, but puppets. The ...

From the mind of Brian Henson, son of the late Jim Henson, comes “The Happytime Murders,” a black comedy that promises to “reveal what goes down when kids aren’t around.” An intriguing premise to be ...