De Papel
Silencio Blanco
November 6 - 8
Lincoln Center - Samuel B. & David Rose Building 165 W 65th St New York, NY
De Papel (Of Paper) is an invitation to play—exploring the relationship between puppet and puppeteer and embracing the bond that emerges with an audience. Through interactive play, a paper puppet comes to life, gradually revealing a fragile and poetic connection to childhood. Chilean-based company Silencio Blanco has distinguished itself for its meticulous work with highly expressive puppets, constructed from everyday materials, including newspaper and chopsticks. The emotional eloquence of these heartfelt creations has fueled the company’s international popularity among children and their families.
https://www.lincolncenter.org/series/lincoln-center-presents/de-papel-848
La MaMa Puppet Festival 2026 *
November 11 - December 6
La MaMa - 66 East 4th St New York, NY
Puppetry has been an integral part of La MaMa’s programming since 1962. By setting objects in motion, puppet artists can penetrate linguistic and cultural barriers to tell stories that are accessible to audiences around the world. Bringing puppet artists together leads to innovation, experimentation, and increased awareness of puppetry as a sophisticated art form. In 2004, we introduced the La MaMa Puppet Series, a biannual festival showcasing new contemporary puppet theatre. Since then, La MaMa has produced twelve puppet festivals.
https://lamama.org/la-mama-puppet-festival-2026/
*Recipient of a Jim Henson Foundation Presenter's Grant (2026)
Endless Forms *
Monica Lerch
November 11 - 15
La MaMa - 66 East 4th St New York, NY
For Syx, whose body is slowly withering, this ban is a death sentence. Refusing to disappear in the name of purity, she operates in secret: altering herself to survive, building robotic companions, and seeking a form that can hold her.
Blending tabletop puppetry, shadow play, digital projection, and electronic music, Endless Forms follows Syx through a series of changes as she seeks a form always just beyond reach.
https://lamama.org/endless-forms/
*Recipient of a Jim Henson Foundation Production Grant (2026)
New Weird Future *
Tiresias
November 12 - 15
La MaMa - 66 East 4th St New York, NY
Tiresias Presents New Weird Future: A Work In Process is a speculative eco-opera and puppet pageant-in-process that imagines futures of multispecies flourishing in the ruins of the Anthropocene. A collective act of radical queer defiance against apathetic submission to climate apocalypse, New Weird Future promises utopian visions of eclectic, non-innocent entanglements on Future Earth.
https://lamama.org/new-weird-future/
*Recipient of a Jim Henson Foundation Workshop Grant (2025) and Production Grant (2026)
The Undercity *
Gaby FeBland and Sammy Zeisel
November 14 - 16
La MaMa - 66 East 4th St New York, NY
Spooky Action Theater production: “The Undercity” is a rat puppet pageant about overthrowing a crumbling empire on the verge of ecological collapse. Set in the great rat metropolis beneath our feet—a 1970s New York-inspired neon-lit underworld—the show follows Rat Girl, as she uncovers a vast conspiracy that threatens the fate of her world.
https://lamama.org/the-undercity/
*Recipient of a Jim Henson Foundation Production Grant (2026)
Where Did You Go Connie?
Amanda Glynn Card
November 19 - 22
La MaMa - 66 East 4th St New York, NY
An interdisciplinary puppetry performance about the life and disappearance of cult musician Connie Converse, whose introspective songs were recorded in 1950s New York, and who vanished without a trace in 1974.
Through a layered integration of shadow puppetry, toy theater, and live-feed video, the piece seeks to conjure Connie’s presence, reckon with her disappearance, and examine the meaning of artistic legacy, especially for those whose work was unseen in their lifetime.
Everything That Follows
LOCO7 Dance Puppet Theatre Company
November 19 - 23
La MaMa - 66 East 4th St New York, NY
Drawing inspiration from the natural world, the piece blurs the boundaries between human, animal, and environment. Bodies and puppets collide, evolve, and come to life in a dreamlike landscape where vulnerability becomes strength, connection becomes survival, and transformation is inevitable.
A visually striking and emotionally charged exploration of who we are, how we relate to one another, and what it takes to remain human in a world that is constantly changing.
Arias With a Twist *
Created by Basil Twist & Joey Arias, presented by Tandem Otter Productions
September 17 - November 1
Thu-Sun at 7pm, Sat & Sun at 4pm
HERE Arts Center - 145 6th Ave, New York, NY 10013
Part cabaret, part fever dream, part visual spectacle, this unforgettable theatrical fantasia unleashes Joey Arias’s electrifying voice inside Basil Twist’s wildly imaginative puppet universe. Surreal, funny, emotional, and unlike anything else on stage, the cult sensation Arias with a Twist is a theatrical experience not to be missed.
https://here.org/shows/arias-with-a-twist-2026/
*Recipient of a Jim Henson Foundation Presenter’s Grant (2026)
