Joyce Depaw loves to perform. When she was younger, Depaw and her wife decided to hit the road and become clowns for 13 years, learning new skills to entertain guests. Depaw formerly made puppets as a ...

Bullicio Puppets, a death metal puppet act from Chile, encourages children to mosh and rock out with a lovable, headbanging puppet character named Jack Distortion that mimes classic heavy tracks from ...

For Josh Gross, musical theater was just too unrealistic — he couldn’t get over all the spontaneous singing and dancing in unison. He chose puppet-horror-musical theater, instead. The very notion of ...

It started with the noblest of intentions. Actor Shaun Michael McNamara had been in Los Angeles for a few years, working primarily at Disneyland and Universal Studios, when he decided to create an ...

When Shaun Michael McNamara brought live adults-only puppet theater to the Valley in 2012, he’d just spent a couple of years selling out shows in small theaters around southern California. But when ...

In the heart of Park Slope, Brooklyn sits the quaint Puppetworks, Inc. theater, founded in 1991 by lifelong puppeteer Nicolas Coppola. After spending years on the road touring with another company, Mr ...

Longtime volunteer artist Ewart Martens tinkered with a piece of rubber, trying to wrap it around a white plastic tube and a metal wire. This combination of previously used materials eventually became ...