'Quay Brothers: On Deciphering the Pharmacist's Prescription for Lip-Reading Puppets'
James Godwin brings a show to Dixon Place
A few years back the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences switched up the rules for Best Original Song, making the hurdles a track had to clear in order to get nominated a little more difficult and introducing the possibility that no songs at all would be nominated during a particular year. ( ... More >>
Sibyl Kempson brings her curious piece to Dixon Place
An onscreen ode to puppets
Google Doodles are often inspired, but rarely are they as fun as today's celebrating the day that would have marked Jim Henson's 75th Birthday.
Plus, the Improbable Theatre punches in
That's what the Sesame Street producers swore in their response to the petition asking the two male roommates to get married. Said the officials: "Bert and Ernie are best friends. "Even though they are identified as male characters and possess many human traits and characteristics (as most ... More >>
Steven talked to Kate Monster from puppet musical Avenue Q, who came out to the City Clerk's office in Manhattan today to celebrate the marriage of Rod and Ricky, two gay characters from the show. According to Steven, the entire Avenue Q cast is there. Congrats to them! [YouTube] [@_rosiegray] ... More >>
I mean he'll blow you away! You see, performer extraordinaire Joey Arias--who's channeled Billie Holiday, costarred with puppets, and even played Vegas--is headlining Town Hall (123 W. 43 Street) on Thursday April 21 at 8, and he aims to please. While he preps the gardenia for his inevitabl ... More >>
Have to love when the crowd erupts as the song kicks into overdrive. You may have seen the LCD Soundsystem "Dance Yrself Clean" Muppets video floating around today (that's it above) and wondered, "Hmm, what other bands have had their songs Muppetized?" First, that's probably not a word. Second, we ... More >>
Puppet plays for adults or your precocious kid
Seven souls, a millionaire's will, and murder
Sesame Street via Lafayette Avenue
Ralph Lee's Grand Procession of the Ghouls
Stories from women behind bars
One spoiled brat creates goblins gone wild
A rare screening of Jim Henson's hippie doc
Drama of Works takes a new approach to Kafka
Dan Hurlins puppets portray a reclusive shutterbug
Bread and Puppet Theater returns to NYC
A puppet show starring The Rosenbergs
Love with strings attached at BAM's Next Wave Festival
On the endless Donna Summers of Escort, Brooklyn's finest disco orchestra
An inventive ode to downtown in the sixties
Team America's critical mess: How reviewers misread the year's most potent political satire
Investigating history with miniature players; dancing wary, scary love letters with style
Dan Hurlin hires a stage manager and finally gets to direct
Pop-Rock Sounds Console Those Growing Up, or Refusing To
Boss Tweed, de Tocqueville, and Hot Tubs at Here
Transformations of Space, Community, and the Body
Choreographing for Dancers and Objects
Currently on View: Puppets, Politics, Pianologue, and Peonage
United by Real and Fake Blood, Screamin Jays 57+ Kids Creep Toward Closure
Historical Raunch and Surreal Dreams
Puppet Theater Takes Manhattan
