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Song of the North *

Hamid Rahmanian

Various Venues
kingorama.com/song-of-the-north

Song of the North is a large-scale, cinematic performance combining the manual art of shadow puppetry with projected animation to tell the courageous tale of Manijeh, a heroine from ancient Persia, who must use all her strengths and talents to rescue her beloved, Bijan, from a perilous predicament of her own making and help prevent a war. This epic love story employs a cast of 483 handmade puppets and a talented ensemble of nine actors and puppeteers, all of which come together to create a spectacular experience that advances the themes of unity, collaboration, and experimentation through performance and story. Song of the North, adapted from the Book of Kings (Shahnameh), challenges the Eurocentric worldview of art and storytelling through a contemporary multimedia experience of this classic Persian tale. (80 minutes)

* Recipient of a Jim Henson Foundation Production Grant (2021) and Presenter's Grant

January 29 - May 17, 2025
Locations:
March 14 - 23 - New York, NY
May 10 - Vancouver BC, Canada
May 14 - Nanaimo BC, Canada
May 17 - Seattle, WA

See Website for Details

Go Home Tiny Monster *

The Gottabees

Photo by: Liz Linder

Skirball Cultural Center
2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA
skirball.org/programs/skirball-puppet-festival

After a sudden storm, Sylvie and her loving family of homespun creatures find themselves in need of a new home. Luckily, they have an audience full of people who can help them out! Go Home Tiny Monster is a wildly creative theatrical ode to a community's generosity. The show, told entirely without words, features The Gottabees’ signature mix of puppetry, live music, physical theater, and joyously absurd silliness.

* Recipient of a Jim Henson Foundation Family Grant (2018)

April 27, 2025
1:00pm
2:15pm
4:00pm

Additional Dates
May 3 -4 at Puppet Showplace Theater (Brookline, MA)

$20

MAROONED! A Space Comedy *

Alex and Olmsted

Photo by: Ryan Maxwell Photography

The Kennedy Center
2700 F St NW, Washington, DC 20566
Washington, DC
https://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/explore-by-genre/young-audiences/2024-2025/marooned/

An astronaut crashes on an uncharted planet. Will she survive strange creatures, an abnormal atmosphere, and isolation in order to find her way home? See for yourself… in MAROONED! Featuring music from the Voyager Golden Record, this innovative new puppet show takes place at the outer reaches of space. Internationally acclaimed puppet theater and filmmaking company Alex and Olmsted presents this Jim Henson Foundation grant-awarded production.

* Recipient of a Jim Henson Foundation Family Grant (2020)

May 3 - 4, 2025
Sat. May 3, 2025 at 11am
Sat. May 3, 2025 at 1:30pm
Sun. May 4, 2025 at 1:30pm (Sensory Friendly Show)
Sun. May 4, 2025 at 4pm

$25.30

Frankenstein *

Manual Cinema

Photo by: Manual Cinema

Montclair State University, Alexander Kasser Theater
1 Normal Ave Hall, Suite 171
Montclair, NJ
tix.com/ticket-sales/Kasser/1631/event/1385764?eventidlist=1385764

Love, loss, and creation merge in unexpected ways as Manual Cinema presents its thrilling version of the classic Gothic tale Frankenstein. The Chicago-based performance collective imaginatively combines shadow puppetry, cinematic techniques, sound effects, and live music in haunting shows like nothing else you’ve ever seen.

* Recipient of a Jim Henson Foundation Workshop Grant (2018)

May 3, 2025
8:00pm

Starting at $35

Milo the Magnificent® *

Alex and Olmsted

Photo by: Alex U. Griffin Photography

Clarice Center for the Performing Arts
8270 Alumni Dr, College Park, MD 20742
College Park, MD
theclarice.umd.edu/events/2025/alex-and-olmsted-milo-the-magnificent

Alex and Olmsted's Jim Henson Foundation grant awarded Milo the Magnificent®? is a highly engaging puppet show about an aspiring magician. This wordless comedy, inspired by turn of the century vaudeville entertainers, is as highly physical as it is charming. Using stunningly innovative puppetry?, Milo presents a variety of magic tricks which don’t always go as planned.

This engagement of Milo the Magnificent® is made possible in part by the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through the generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts.

* Recipient of a Jim Henson Foundation Workshop Grant (2017)

May 10, 2025
Saturday May 10, 2025 at 11AM & 1PM

General Public: $15, Children (3-17 years): $10, Children (0-2 years) Free! Ticket required.

Don't Make Me Get Dressed *

The Gottabees

Puppet Showplace Theater
32 Station St
Brookline, MA
puppetshowplace.org/calendar/2025/05/17/dont-make-me-get-dressed-by-the-gottabees

For every child who has struggled to get into their clothes first thing in the morning (and for every parent who has fought valiantly in the battleground of the morning routine), comes Don't Make Me Get Dressed — a gloriously silly and inventive ode to the feelings we have when we choose our clothes… and what happens when our clothes come to life and choose us. Featuring a mix of puppetry, physical theater, live music, and the recorded voices of over 20 children, Don’t Make Me Get Dressed will make you rethink the experience of putting on clothes and going out into the world.

* Recipient of a Jim Henson Foundation Family Grant (2023)

May 17 - 18, 2025
Saturday at 10:30am
Sunday 10:30am and 1:00pm

$16 - $18

PACKRAT *

Concrete Temple Theatre

Photo by: Stefan Hagen

Taos Center for the Arts
145 Paseo Del Pueblo Norte
Taos, NM
https://tcataos.org/

Set deep in the Sagebrush Desert, PACKRAT is a visually stunning puppet-forward play that contemplates humanity’s relationship with the natural world. Puppetry, projections and an original score elegantly come together to create many layers of meaning and emotions. At the center of the action is Bud, a peculiar rodent with a penchant for hoarding humankind’s goods. When a discarded cigar sparks a wildfire, the animals in Bud’s valley flee for their lives. Already an outcast among the desert animals for his hoarding instincts, he gets blamed for the human-made disasters infiltrating their lives. When they ban him from the community, Bud must set out alone amidst a raging fire, to confront human-made dangers and a few natural ones. PACKRAT is a poignant account of Bud’s journey to find his place in the world, and his ultimate realization that the interconnectedness of life rules the day.

* Recipient of a Jim Henson Foundation Workshop Grant (2018) and Production Grant (2019)

May 23 - 24, 2025
May 23rd @ 7:00pm
May 24th @ 2:00pm

Youth ($5), General Admission ($10), Family w/ Kids Ticket ($20)

Party Animals *

Sarah Nolen of Puppet Motion

Puppet Showplace Theater
32 Station St
Brookline, MA
puppetshowplace.org/calendar/2025/06/07/party-animals-by-sarah-nolen-of-puppet-motion-world-premiere

World Premiere! Party Animals follows four furry friends as they navigate the biggest social hurdle of their young lives — throwing their first party! Meet a bunny with boundless energy, a sloth with social anxiety, a hedgehog wrestling with wrapping, and a skunk who's trying to keep everything cool and under control. Through song, dance, and original rock 'n' roll music by Boston local Phil Berman (of Puppet Playtime & The Holiday Sing-Along), these little stars discover that music can be an exuberant and healthy way to express their inner selves.

* Recipient of a Jim Henson Foundation Family Grant (2022)

June 7 - 15, 2025
Saturdays and Sundays at 10:30am and 1pm

$16-18 all-ages general admission / $12.50-14.50 members

Bread & Puppet Spring Tour

Bread & Puppet

Various Venues
breadandpuppet.org/tour

One of the oldest, nonprofit, political theatre companies in the country - constantly reexamining and redefining puppetry and theater as ritual, radical action, and nourishment akin to bread itself. From the stage to the street, an authenticity that is rarely matched and always evolving. This April, the troupe returns to MSA for three intimate performances.

March 27 - April 27, 2025
Thursday, March 27 – Greensboro, VT
Friday, March 28 – Barre, VT
Saturday, March 29 – Burlington, VT
Sunday, March 30 – Cambridge, NY
Tuesday, April 1 – Hudson, NY
Wednesday, April 2 – Albany, NY
Thursday, April 3 – Bennington, VT
Friday, April 4 – Ithaca, NY
Saturday, April 5 – TBD – Seeking a venue
Sunday, April 6 – TBD – Seeking a venue
Wednesday, April 9 – Milton, PA
Thursday, April 10 & Friday, April 11 – Washington, DC
Saturday, April 12 – Baltimore, MD
Sunday, April 13 – Lancaster, PA
Tuesday, April 15 & – Wednesday, April 16 – New York City
Thursday, April 17 – Hopewell, NJ
Friday, April 18 & Saturday, April 19 – Philadelphia, PA
Tuesday, April 22 – New Haven, CT
Wednesday, April 23 – New Bedford, MA
Thursday, April 24 – Somerville, MA
Friday, April 25 – Jamaica Plain, MA
Saturday, April 26 & Sunday, April 27 – Portland, ME

See website for details

La Maleta de Maebelle (Maebelle's Suitcase)

Glass Half Full Theatre

Penfold Theatre Dougherty Arts Center
2120 N. Mays Street, Suite 290, Round Rock, TX 78664
1110 Barton Springs Rd, Austin, TX 78704
Austin, TX
glasshalffulltheatre.com

A story about a bird preparing for migration and his Colombian human friend who rediscovers her roots, La Maleta de Maebelle asks why we hold on to physical belongings and what happens if we let them go.
The play is an adaptation of Tricia Tusa’s Reading Rainbow book Maebelle’s Suitcase, enriched with Colombian hat-making cultural heritage, soundscape, and ecology. Maebelle features felt-head human puppets by acclaimed Venezuelan puppeteer Anatar Malmor-Gagné, bird puppets by Austin puppeteer Caroline Reck, and a score of Colombian rhythms and string melodies by Kiko Villamizar. Age Recommendation: Recommended for ages 5 and up.

April 5 - May 9, 2025
Penfold Theatre:
Saturday April 5 at 4pm
Sunday April 6 at 2pm & 4pm
Saturday April 12 at 4pm
Sunday April 13 at 2pm & 4pm

Dougherty Arts Center:
April 26, May 3, 10 at 2pm

$10-$25

Cat in the Hat - FAMILY

Based on the book by Dr. Seuss

Center For Puppetry Arts
1404 Spring Street at 18th Street
Atlanta, GA
puppet.org/programs/cat-in-the-hat/

See Cat in the Hat like you haven't before! Play originally produced by the National Theater of Great Britain. Adapted and originally directed by Katie Mitchell. “It’s fun to have fun, but you have to know how!” says the Cat in the tall red and white hat. See all your favorite moments from this literary classic come to life on stage! Dr. Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat is presented through a special arrangement with Music Theater International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI

April 8 - May 25, 2025
April:
Tues-Fri - 10:00am & 12:00pm
Sat - 11:00am & 1:00pm
Sun - 1:00pm & 3:00pm

May:
Wed-Fri - 10:00am & 11:30am
Sat - 11:00am & 1:00pm
Sun - 1:00pm & 3:00pm

$20.50 - $25.75

Iron and Wine Light Verse Tour

Manual Cinema

Photo by: Harrison Dilts

Various
583 E Broad St, Columbus
Columbus, OH
ironandwine.com/tours/

Manual Cinema created a bespoke live visual performance to accompany the Iron and Wine Light Verse tour. Puppeteers will perform live overhead projector shadow puppetry devised and designed by Manual Cinema artists to accompany the band on stage.

April 8 - 26, 2025
See website for locations and performance times

Starting at $37.50

The City That Slept

Tom Tuke

Photo by: Richard Termine

Studio Theatre, Drama Music Building University of Connecticut
802 Bolton Road
Storrs, CT
instagram.com/palomapuppettheatre

What happens when Sleep arrives in New York? We listen, as the city falls asleep, and folks retell dreams. Using shadow, lantern and large-scale marionettes, we see these dreams as they weave through the towers, avenues and city blocks. Using interviews recorded in Union Square, and soundscapes from around the city, Tuke creates a tableau of New York. The City That Slept also incorporates a new form of puppetry, combining floating shadow puppets in a pool of moving water.

Tom Tuke is an artist and educator from Aotearoa/New Zealand. This show is being presented in partial fulfillment of his MFA in Puppetry Arts, where he has been studying for the last 3 years.
Tickets are free, seats first come first served.

April 18 - 27, 2025
April 18 - 7PM
April 19 - 2PM & 7PM
April 25 - 7PM
April 26 - 7PM
April 27 - 2PM

Free

Arjuna's Meditation

Larry Reed

UC Berkeley Wu Performance Hall
110 Sproul Hall
Berkeley, CA
https://www.shadowlight.org/upcoming-events/2025/4/18/arjunas-meditation-wayang-by-larry-reed

Join us at free event at Wu Performance Hall, UC Berkeley (April 18) and sliding-scale event Bindlestiff Studio, San Francisco (May 9)* for an evening of mesmerizing storytelling through the art of shadow theater, Wayang Bali, by shadow master (dalang) Larry Reed. Experience the ancient tradition of Balinese shadow puppetry as Reed brings to life the epic tale of Arjuna's Meditation accompanied by a live gamelan gender wayang. Let yourself be transported to a world of magic, myth, and shadows in this unique in-person event.

April 18 - May 9, 2025
8PM
Additional Dates:
May 9, 7:30PM at Bindlestiff Studio 185 6th St, San Francisco, CA - Sliding Scale, pay what you can

FREE

Experimental Puppet Experience

Various Artists

Confluence Creative Arts Center
533 Williams St
Confluence, PA
https://www.confluencecreativearts.org/classes-acitivities

Puppets, Potluck, and Plenty of Fun: An Unforgettable Night of Creativity at the Confluence Creative Arts Center! A troupe of world-class puppeteers is coming together to create an unforgettable evening of laughter, artistry, and community spirit. The Experimental Puppet Experience will be a night of nuanced performances, vibrant characters, and unexpected connections. Puppet shows of every stripe and variety, clowns, music, and surprises! This puppet-arts show is not just for kids! The performances are rich in humor, emotional depth, and reflection on the human condition, making it the perfect experience for adults and families alike. Expect to be both entertained and moved by clever storytelling, spirited musical interludes, and interactive moments that encourage audience participation. Before the show kicks off, a community potluck provides an opportunity for the audience to socialize, meet the performers, and enjoy homemade dishes and culinary talents.

April 23 - 26, 2025
7PM

$10

Everybody Loves Pirates

Frogtown Mountain Puppeteers

Puppet Showplace Theater
32 Station St
Brookline, MA
https://www.puppetshowplace.org/calendar/2025/04/24/everybody-loves-pirates-by-frogtown-mountain-puppeteers

Eight-year-old Lucy and her goofy pal Little Chucky are searching for buried treasure, but a gang of bumbling pirates keeps getting in the way! The kids get some help from their new ocean-dwelling friends, including enthusiastic superhero Lobster Boy, his reluctant sidekick Crabby, and an overgrown sea monkey.

April 24 - 27, 2025
10:30am and 1:00pm

$16 - $18

Bev & Blanche's Care-a-Van

Esty Bharier and Molly Maslak

La Jolla Playhouse WOW Festival (located on the UCSD Campus)
9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093
San Diego, CA
lajollaplayhouse.org/wowfestival/event/bev-and-blanches-care-a-van/2025-04-26/

Meet Bev and Blanche, “The Rough Draft Sisters”—two quirky, codependent, unfinished marionette twins navigating ongoing mental health journeys.
During this roaming pop-up show, Bev and Blanche explore feelings of inadequacy, anxiety, and grief while offering mindfulness, levity, and connection. Can you find their Care-a-van? What nuggets of wisdom will they have in store for you?

April 26 - 27, 2025
Throughout the day from 10AM-6PM

Free

2nd Annual Children's Puppet Show

Emily Schubert & Abby Palen

Reading Ready Pittsburgh
222 E 8th Avenue
Hempstead, PA
https://www.instagram.com/p/DIynjcHsNkl/?img_index=1

The puppet show is back!! If you made it last year, you certainly remember just how much fun it was. But whether you were there or not, please do be sure to make it to this one.
Abby Palen and Emily Schubert return to wow and astound children and adults alike with their puppetry and performance skills on April 26 from 11:30 am to 1 pm at B is for Books. Two unique puppet shows will occur within this timeframe, so be sure to arrive on the early side to secure a seat and shop for books.

April 26, 2025
11:30AM

FREE

Bridging Cultures in Motion

Great Arizona Puppet Theater

Great Arizona Puppet Theater
302 W Latham St
Phoenix, AZ
https://greatarizonapuppettheater.thundertix.com/events/242503/

This opening reception will showcase a fusion of Indigenous Arizona and Chinese cuisine alongside collaborative performances of traditional Chinese puppetry, American puppetry, and Native American dance. Guests will also experience a premier Chinese shadow puppetry performance by Chengdu puppeteers!

April 26, 2025
6PM

$100

Peter Rabbit

Pumpernickel Puppets

Photo by: Pumpernickel Puppets

Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry
1 Royce Cir
Storrs, CT
https://shorturl.at/0nCUt

Naughty Peter Rabbit, against his mother’s wishes, ventures into Mr. McGregor’s garden for a taste of his favorite vegetable treats. He nearly escapes being made into rabbit stew with the help of his tag-along little sister Flopsy. This colorful and fun production is presented with large hand puppets, live voices and sound effects. Recommended for ages 3+. Runtime is approximately 40 minutes.

April 26, 2025
11am & 2pm

Adults: $12; Members/Seniors: $10; Students: $8; Kids: $6 (12 years and under)

Riparian Rhapsody at Treecycle 2025 - Arm-of-the-Sea Theater

Hudson Valley Puppetry Festival

Stanley Deming Park
79 South St
Warwick, NY
artsmidhudson.org/hvpf

Riparian Rhapsody is a puppet extravaganza dives into Catskill ecology to reveal the intricate interactions between Forest & Stream and lyrically makes the case for protecting streamside buffer zones. Featuring stunning visuals, live music, and a singing Bear!

April 26, 2025
2pm

FREE

XPT: Xperimental Puppetry Theater

Center for Puppetry Arts, Various Artists

Center for Puppetry Arts
1404 Spring St NW
Atlanta, GA
puppet.org/programs/xpt-xperimental-puppet-theater/

What happens when artists join forces to create original puppetry works for adult audiences? XPT! Celebrating close to 40 years of experimentation, come find out what this year holds! From traditional forms of puppetry to films and installation pieces, artists of all disciplines employ puppetry in startling new ways. XPT offers an array of stories, puppetry styles, and sensibilities in a single evening. Guaranteed to inspire, surprise, amuse and provoke. Inspired? – see the XPT application to find out how to get involved in the process!

April 30 - May 4, 2025

$18

PUPPET LAB: A Festival of New Work

Graci Horne, Nicole Rojas-Oltmanns, Chesare Cipriano, and Samuel Albright & Elizabette Hinze

Open Eye Theatre
506 E. 24th Street
Minneapolis, MN
openeyetheatre.org/puppet-lab-festival-2025

Residency artists who have been workshopping projects for six months will have their new works professionally produced during the two-week PUPPET LAB Festival! This May, join us for the culmination of the 6-month developmental laboratory program with performances by Graci Horne, Nicole Rojas-Oltmanns, Chesare Cipriano, and Samuel Albright & Elizabette Hinze. The residency artists are led by Co-Artistic Directors of PUPPET LAB Oanh Vu and Sofia Padilla and mentors Karly Bergmann, Chamindika Wanduragala, Kate Tobie, and Shari Aronson.

May 9 - 18, 2025
Week 1: Samuel Albright & Elisabette Hinze and Ches Cipriano
Friday 5/9, 7:30pm
Saturday 5/10, 7:30pm
Sunday 5/11, 2pm*

Week 2: Graci Horne and Nicole Rojas-Oltmanns
Friday 5/16, 7:30pm
Saturday 5/17, 7:30pm
Sunday 5/18, 2pm*

*We will offer the Sunday 5/11 and 5/18 matinees as masking-required performances for our community. All other shows are masking-optional.

$18 General Admission / $15 Economic Accessibility

Monkey Mind Pirates: Quest for Calm

Z Puppets Rosenschnoz

Photo by: Bruce Silcox

Midtown Farmers Market
2225 East Lake Street Minneapolis, MN, 55407
Minneapolis, MN
https://zpuppets.org/calendar/2025/5/10/monkey-mind-pirates-quest-for-calm

Dive into this award-winning musical tale of a sea captain navigating the stormy seas of stress to tame the unruly Monkey Mind Pirates. The fun songs, lovable characters and a playful approach to yoga and mindfulness will help you sail towards your Island of Calm.
Turn your family’s “Arghs” into “Oms” with the Monkey Mind Pirates!
Recommended for ages 3+

May 10, 2025
10:00 a.m.

Free

The Mirrored Pool

Tom Lee

Athenaeum Center for Thought
2936 N Southport Ave
Chicago, IL
https://secure.athenaeumcenter.org/1809

The Mirrored Pool is a mask and puppetry performance created by puppet master Tom Lee. In a wordless dream space at the edge of a shallow pool of water, Puppeteer and Puppet are presented as evocatively designed characters who switch back and forth between perceived identities as lovers, rivals, and caretakers. The performance is an exploration of virtuosic puppetry and mask performance, but also of the audience’s perceptions and prejudices about character and gender.

May 15 - 16, 2025
7pm

$30

Tomte

Tom Lee

Athenaeum Center
2936 N Southport Ave
Chicago, IL
https://athenaeumcenter.org/events/2025/tomte/

Tomte is an intimate shadow puppet performance adapted from “The Tomten” by Astrid Lindgren and the poem by Victor Rydberg. The first part performance is created using live feed video of shadow puppets filmed through an overhead video camera and projected onto a transforming shadow screen. Puppetry, animal sounds and scenic transitions are all performed by Tom Lee with narration by storyteller Lisa Gonzales. Following the shadow portion of the piece, Tomte emerges from the screen to interact with the audience. During this portion, Tomte is presented as a kuruma ningy? (cart puppet) style figure inspired by Japanese traditions. The entire performance is 30 minutes long.

May 17 - 18, 2025
Saturday at 2pm and 6pm
Sunday at 12pm

$25

Sandglass Theater Summer Series Presents: Ha Ha Da Vinci

Phina Pipia

Sandglass Theater
17 Kimball Hill
Putney, VT
https://sandglasstheater.org/special-events/summer-series

Illusion, Music, and Theater show
A tuba lights the way, beds make music, paintings come to life, and a radio delivers a message from the past in a whimsical production that combines elements of illusion, music, and theater. When a young grad student discovers that Leonardo da Vinci and his collaborator, magician and mathematician Luca Pacioli, invented a time machine, she is zapped back to the Renaissance. It’s up to her to decode their notes and solve a 15th-century mystery so that she can return to the present.
Winner of the San Diego International Fringe Festival’s Outstanding Solo Performance Award, the Vancouver Fringe Festival’s Joanna Maratta Award, the Critic’s Choice Award for Best Solo Show - Musical at Orlando Fringe, Artist Pick and Venue Pick Awards at the Minnesota Fringe, and named a Top Pick at the San Diego Fringe by PBS, Ha Ha Da Vinci invites audiences of all ages into a world where they can safely expect the delightfully unexpected.

May 24, 2025
7:00 PM

$20

Sandglass Theater Summer Series Presents: Book Of Stars

Georgia Beatty

Sandglass Theater
17 Kimball Hill
Putney, VT
https://sandglasstheater.org/special-events/summer-series

A newly written folktale told through magic lantern performance and original music
By Georgia Beatty

THE BOOK OF STARS is the folktale of the Light Queen, written and performed by fiddler and folk artist Georgia Beatty. The show combines original music with the old projector technology known as a “magic lantern” to tell the story of the cosmic queen who is reborn every 3,000 years to learn the songs of Light, and use them to heal Earth from oppressive powers.

Exploring resonance as both a musical and ancestral concept, visuals, song and story guide the audience through a grounding ritual to discover the present body as a living archive; capable of healing a broken world.

June 7, 2025
7:00 PM

$20

The Billy Club Puppets

Hip Pocket Theatre

Hip Pocket Theatre
1950 Silver Creek Rd
Fort Worth, TX
https://www.hippocket.org/49th-season-2025

You'll love this lively mix of commedia dell'arte and puppetry! Will Rosita marry her true love, Cocoliche, or be whisked away by the miserly Don Cristobol? This broad tragi-comedy is ideal for all ages and audiences!

June 20 - July 13, 2025
9PM

$25

A La Carte: In A Fool's Kitchen

Z Puppets Rosenschnoz

Photo by: Bruce Silcox

Midtown Farmers Market
2225 East Lake Street Minneapolis, MN, 55407
Minneapolis
https://zpuppets.org/calendar/2025/6/21/a-la-carte-in-a-fools-kitchen

A LA CARTE is a comic battle between a clown French Chef and a wily lobster set to live accordion music. This playfully interactive comedy features clowning, puppetry, music and a few unruly vegetables.

A LA CARTE begins as the Chef sets the table for the Grand Opening of his 2-seat café. Before the Chef can dazzle his very important guests, dinner’s main ingredient stages a rebellion — again and again and again. Who knew crustaceans could cook up such delicious mischief?

June 21, 2025
10 a.m.

Free

Pocket Moxie

Happenstance Theater

Sandglass Theater
17 Kimball Hill
Putney, VT
https://sandglasstheater.org/special-events/summer-series

A light-hearted homage to the style and spirit of the Great Age of Vaudeville
By Happenstance Theater

Happenstance Theater brings old Vaudeville back - an immensely popular theatre from the late 19th and early 20th Centuries made up of specialty acts, song, and dance.

Happenstance Theater's five versatile players breathe new life into classic old routines from a ventriloquist’s dummy to a magic act that goes awry, from novelty songs and a musical saw to waiters juggling meatballs, all with full live “foley” sound effects. This show is teeming with hijinks, harmonies, nostalgic beauty, and physical comedy. Something for everyone and family friendly!?

Featuring Happenstance Theater’s Ensemble:
Gwen Grastorf, Mark Jaster, Sabrina Mandell, Sarah Olmsted Thomas, and Alex Vernon

June 26, 2025
3:00 PM
AND
7:00 PM
(2 shows)

$20

The Comical Misadventures of Mr. Punch

Z Puppets Rosenschnoz

Photo by: Bruce Silcox

Midtown Farmers Market
2225 East Lake Street Minneapolis, MN, 55407
Minneapolis, MN
https://zpuppets.org/calendar/2025/6/28/the-comical-misadventures-of-mr-punch

A madcap, call-and-response, hand puppet romp, in which the children must keep the puppets from misbehaving and the Baby triumphs in the end.
When the Baby goes missing, Mr. Punch sets out to the rescue. Tangling with a crocodile, the police and even the devil, Mr. Punch unleashes mischief and mayhem all the way.
Recommended for ages 5+

June 28, 2025
10 a.m.

Free