If you’ve ever ambled onto Fourth Avenue on the Sunday after Halloween, you may have beheld an astonishing spectacle: elaborate floats, musicians in ghoulish masks and stilted fire-throwers slowly ...

Steve Ackerman climbs down a scaffold while working on the puppet lending library at the In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre in Minneapolis on March 30.

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Puppets have taken their places at the Avalon Theatre on Lake Street in Minneapolis. Dozens of papier-mâché faces now line the auditorium, perched on shelves and peering down from scaffolding. They ...

Professor Colette Searls, of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, will discuss the essential role of puppets, masks, and performing objects in the many different aspects of the venerable and ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- "The Archangel and the Animal Trainer -- The Snail's Revenge," a comical love story, will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Sept. 20, 2 p.m. Sept. 21 and 7:30 p.m. Sept. 21 at the In the Heart ...

The first annual HarvestFest Puppet Parade will take to the New London streets at 11 a.m. Sept. 23, to celebrate the New London community and the change of the season. Alo Osberg, of Minneapolis, ...

Whether it be enchanting masks, mysterious figures, or charming puppets, artist and puppeteer Ralph Lee could make anything he touched to come to life. Known for hundreds of exhibits around the city ...

Hamid Rahmanian is waging a war — one he started about 16 years ago. His army: hundreds of shadow puppets, many brandishing shadow spears, bows and arrows, swords. His battle strategy is plucked from ...

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