Artists make their home at Puppet Showplace...and soar to other venues!
This fall, shows that were nurtured at Puppet Showplace are spreading their wings, and performing at amazing venues all over Boston and New England!
Puppetry abounds this month at ArrowFest — the 11-day festival that launches the new Arrow Street Arts Center in Harvard Square:
Harry LaCoste performing at a Puppet Showplace Slam, April 2024.
Sept 11, 9:00 pm: Puppet Showplace Theater is presenting a “Best of Boston” Puppet Slam, featuring local artists who have delighted audiences again and again at PST. Caution: this show will sell out!
Veronica Barron with the puppet she performs with in “Don’t Open This,” September 2024.
Sept 5-7, 8:00 pm: As part of Don't Open This, an immersive spectacle by our friends Liars & Believers, Puppet Showplace’s very own Executive Artistic Director Veronica Barron is performing a giant puppet in a puppet sequence by Rachel Wiese and Becca Lehrhoff, and a puppet short of her own (created years ago in a Puppet Showplace class with then-Resident Artist Brad Shur!)
And even more familiar faces are taking part in the festival: Puppet Playtime host Harry LaCoste will be there with his show The Caboose is Loose on Sept 14; imaginary beasts alum Jill Rogati’s play for babies Whipped Up! Is on Sept 15; and Liars & Believers’ Yellow Bird Chase is also on Sept 15.
→ Get $5 off ArrowFest tickets with the code PST5! Valid for tickets that are $10 or more.
Multimedia puppetry at ArtsEmerson, Oct 31 - Nov 3:
Courtesy of ArtsEmerson and the “On The Eve of Abolition” team.
We can't wait to see On The Eve of Abolition — a project created by Papel Machete's team of artists, including Dey Hernández, a Creative Residency for Black Puppeteers alum who worked on this show during their 2021 residency.
From ArtsEmerson:
In this bilingual, multimedia masterpiece, puppets, video projection, and miniature sets collide to transport audiences to a future where prison abolitionists have created the conditions to end the prison industrial complex in the liberated lands formerly known as the U.S. and Mexico
New work from our Resident Artist Sarah Nolen, in Vermont on Sept 12 & 13:
“Feral” courtesy of Sandglass Theater.
Catch our Resident Artist Sarah Nolen's work as director, designer, and performer in the premiere performance of Feral at Sandglass Theater’s Puppets in the Green Mountains international festival! Playing for two nights only, Sept 12 & 13 at 7:30 pm.
From Sandglass:
Have you heard the joke about the she-wolf that is bitten by a werewolf and turns into a woman? No? "Feral" invites audiences on a woman’s journey as she experiences the tension between her intuitive knowledge and learned societal behavior, captured by an allegorical transformation into a werewolf.
New works of puppetry are born here every year, right before the eyes of you, our audience!
You help Puppet Showplace nurture artists and their creations at every step of the creative process, through our Adult Education offerings, our Resident Artist program, our Puppet Slams, our Incubator program for new works, and our Creative Residency for Black Puppeteers.
We are so proud of the artists highlighted in this email, and all the artists in our Puppet Showplace community!
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