Dispatch: Puppet Fest Wraps Up With Shows Garish, Gorgeous and Grand Guignol

Chicago’s 5th annual International Puppet Theater Festival wrapped up this weekend after presenting more than 100 puppet productions and events…
Chicago’s 5th annual International Puppet Theater Festival wrapped up this weekend after presenting more than 100 puppet productions and events…
Chicago’s 5th annual International Puppet Theater Festival opened with a dramatic splash last week with a French-Norwegian production of Moby…
The 5th Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, the largest of its kind in North America, begins next Wednesday, January 18,…
Life’s been a circus over the last two years, so we might as well lean into it. Welcome to the Chicago…
Andersonville’s Neo Futurarium is the kind of hole in the wall, warren of a creative space that has made this…
Lifeline Theatre has launched its 25th annual Fillet of Solo Festival for a three-week run of virtual storytelling by some…
What I have always loved about every single Cabinet of Curiosity production is that I can’t tell you what it…
The Destinos Latino Theater Festival is Chicago’s celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, and the Goodman Theatre’s offering is American Mariachi,…
Physical Fest has wooed Chicago for eight years now, introducing wonderful international physical theater and circus works, but this year…
Way back when, when I was, I guess, a “cub” writer, I was unofficially assigned the “nerd beat.” This was…
Kane Repertory Theatre, of west suburban St. Charles, is running the third cycle of its New Play Lab series, featuring…
Manual Cinema’s 10th Anniversary Retrospectacular, launched this week, will bring back four of the company’s most inventive shows from the…
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