Showtimes & Tickets

Sat Sept 17 | 5:00 pm

$10/person suggested donation

Location

One Brookline Place, Brookline, MA
Right across the train tracks from Puppet Showplace Theater!

This event is outdoors on a grassy lawn! Bring a picnic blanket or low chairs to sit comfortably.

About the Show

Join Bugsy, a bug with a keen eye for talent and a love of the stage, as he co-hosts a musical variety show filled with larger-than-life characters. Audiences will love Pumpernickel Puppets' newest production, which features friends old and new created by fan-favorite puppeteer John McDonough. Specially designed for outdoor audiences, this interactive show will have you dancing along with everyone from hand- and string-puppets to oversized walk-about characters.

About the Artist

The Pumpernickel Puppets are the creation of John McDonough of Worcester, Massachusetts. John was four years old when he saw his first puppet show, and he immediately knew that he wanted to be a puppeteer. By his teens, John was presenting shows all over the New England area. The Pumpernickel Puppets have had the honor of appearing at the Puppet Showplace Theater, the Boston Children’s Museum, the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., the Cultural Olympiad at the Center For Puppetry Arts in Atlanta, Georgia, and the prestigious International Festival of Puppet Theatre sponsored by the Jim Henson Foundation at the Joseph Papp Public Theatre in New York. For each production, John creates and performs all of his own puppets, which range from small hand puppets to larger-than-life figures.