Welcome from Blair Thomas: The 2024 Festival
Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival
by Jess Wickstrom
2M ago
Play Video Welcome to the 2024 Festival! from Blair Thomas, Founder & Artistic Director get tickets! The post Welcome from Blair Thomas: The 2024 Festival appeared first on Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival ..read more
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Catch Your Breath: A Preview of the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival
Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival
by Jess Wickstrom
2y ago
by TED C. FISHMAN Blair Thomas/Photo: Saverio Truglia Breath. Seeing a creature inhale and exhale can be a first clue that we are beholding a living being. Puppeteers work hard to master breathing, both their own and the movement of breath that animates—“gives breath to”—their creations. Creating the illusion of breath is probably as old as the first puppet; ancient forms still in practice, such as Japanese bunraku or Javanese wayang, ritualize it. Collodi, the creator of Pinocchio (1881), understood what breath means to a puppet and so do his readers. Pinocchio’s first ac ..read more
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Players 2022: The Fifty People Who Really Perform for Chicago
Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival
by Jess Wickstrom
2y ago
by BRIAN HIEGGELKE First is the joy of the return. The joy of seeing old friends in the flesh for the first time in so very long. The joy of live performance, in a theater, on a stage. The joy of applause, of a standing ovation. Of audience chatter, at intermission, after the show. And then there’s the concern about those who have not returned. Who may not, who will not. And then there’s the thanks for those who helped us get to this point. If you, like me, have been to many opening nights this fall, reopening nights, you experienced a recurring moment of joy, when each co ..read more
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Chicago Tribune: Chicago’s Puppet Theater Fest returns for 2022
Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival
by Jess Wickstrom
2y ago
Chicago’s Puppet Theater Fest returns for 2022 with old favorites and the wildly new, broadening what you expect from a puppet show By Doug George “Bill’s 44th” by Andy Manjuck and Dorothy James , coming to the 2022 Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival. (Richard Termine / HANDOUT)For all the things Chicago is famous for, let puppetry be on the list, and puppetry’s biggest event on the calendar is the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival. The fourth edition of the Puppet Theater Fest will be back in early 2022, with some 100 performances at 15 venues around the city. The ..read more
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Chicago Magazine, Agenda: January 2022
Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival
by Jess Wickstrom
2y ago
Top 10 reasons to fill up your calendar this month. Photograph: Timothy A. Clary/Getty Images#2 No Strings Attached The fourth edition of the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival includes The Plastic Bag Store, Robin Frohardt’s “grocery store” stocked with fake food, which takes over one of the Wrigley Building’s Michigan Avenue storefronts. Jan. 20–30. chicagopuppetfest.org Read more on Chicago Magazine The post Chicago Magazine, Agenda: January 2022 appeared first on Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival ..read more
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Chicago Reader: ‘You have to respect the power of object’ Chicago puppet theater is on the move again.
Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival
by Jess Wickstrom
2y ago
by Max Maller Chimpanzee, created by Nick Lehane, gets a sneak peek in the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival’s Living Room Tour November 11-13. It runs as part of the festival in January 2022. Credit: Richard Termine In July, as COVID-19 restrictions began to lift and the Chicago performing arts geared themselves up to resurrect, the Rough House Theater Co. headquarters at coartistic directors Claire Saxe and Mike Oleon’s home in Humboldt Park morphed into a puppet rehearsal palace. Rough House’s anthology production House of the Exquisite Corpse wouldn’t be op ..read more
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Broadway World Chicago: Study the Art of Puppetry
Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival
by Jess Wickstrom
2y ago
Study the Art of Puppetry This Winter With Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival! Registration is now open for the following One-Week Intensives ($225 each) and four Six-Week Courses ($285 each). by BWW News Desk| January 25, 2021   Study the Art of Puppetry This Winter With Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival This winter is the perfect time to stay inside, dive into live, hands-on puppetry workshops and make something extraordinary. That’s why, due to popular demand, the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival is expanding its teaching artist roster and tripling ..read more
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WTTW: Chicago Puppeteer Brings Theater To Your Door
Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival
by Jess Wickstrom
2y ago
Chicago Puppeteer Brings Theater to Your Door with Pop-Up Show Marc Vitali | September 8, 2020 1:07 pm   If you are – or were – an occasional theatergoer, you know that puppets are a big deal in Chicago. Every other year, the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival brings together talented locals with artists from around the world. With the fest postponed until next year, one of its puppeteers is taking his show on the road. Instead of sending flowers, he thinks you should “Say it with puppets.” Read More   The post WTTW: Chicago Puppeteer Brings Theater To Your Door ap ..read more
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Puppet-Grams Featured in WGN’s “Around Town”
Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival
by Jess Wickstrom
2y ago
As featured in WGN’s “Around Town” with Ann Beleval The post Puppet-Grams Featured in WGN’s “Around Town” appeared first on Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival ..read more
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Blair Thomas at Festival de Casteliers
Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival
by Jess Wickstrom
2y ago
On March 4th Founder and Artistic Director, Blair Thomas, will be representing The Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival in Montreal, Canada at the Festival de Casteliers as part of a panel of international festival directors. The post Blair Thomas at Festival de Casteliers appeared first on Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival ..read more
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