It’s the damnedest thing: Justin Snyder, his long hair parted down the middle, his head thrown back as though communing with a higher power, the hood of his hoodie grazing the floor, his mouth working ...

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Stage and set designer Bill Fosser worked on Hollywood hits like Home Alone, The Sting and Ordinary People. “He was indeed a genius,” recalls actor Tony Mockuss. “He had the eye.” But the apple of ...

The project started with one of those proverbial lightbulbs going off over someone’s head. “Three years ago, I was working on a painting that involved puppets, and I was listening to opera,” Erin ...

The title role of Madame Butterfly in Opera Philadelphia's production is represented by a puppet, voiced and manipulated by Karen Chia-ling Ho. (Emma Lee/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South ...

“My brother and I were always kind of strange children growing up,” says Justin Snyder, who collected puppets with his brother Shayne. The brothers also studied music early in school and developed a ...

For those so inclined, there are few Seattle theater productions more anticipated than the Northwest Puppet Center’s annual baroque marionette opera. Yes, that’s right, puppet opera. And this year’s ...

A puppet opera artist rehearses at an art institute of the puppet opera in Ruicheng county, Shanxi province, August 6, 2014. [Photo/Xinhua] Ruicheng puppet opera, popular in Ruicheng county and other ...

There are no lions and tigers and bears at the Berkeley Opera's latest offering, a double-bill program of Maurice Ravel's "L'Enfant et les Sortileges" and Bela Bartok's "Bluebeard's Castle," opening ...

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