Category Archives: Puppet

Watkins Nature Center Puppet Show, Mar 8 & 15 at 10am

Watkins Nature Center Puppet Show, Mar 8-May 10 at 10am

Puppet Friends in Storyland
Watkins Nature Center at Watkins Park presents a nature-themed puppet show and a chance to meet an animal.

Appropriate for ages 2 to 3, with an adult.

Each session is two Fridays from 10:00 to 10:45am:
March 8 & 15, 2024, Owen Otter and Tammy Turtle
April 5 & 12, 2024, Barry Bat and Peter Pangolin
May 3 & 10, 2024, Penny Penguin and Connor Cow

Watkins Nature Center, Location: 301 Watkins Park Drive, Upper Marlboro MD 20774, Phone: 301-218-6702

Puppet Friends in Storyland.

Join us for an interactive lesson with a hands-on activity. Your little one will play, laugh, and dance with their puppet pals while they work on social skills, early literacy development, listening, communication, fine motor skills, attention span, and their creativity!

Enjoy a nature story time! Listen to animal puppets as they read you a story about their family, and then join them and a naturalist as they led you through a nature themed craft! A different show each month!

Tickets: $10 for 2 sessions, $13 non-resident. Click here.

TDPS Henson Awards at Clarice Smith, Mar 5

TDPS Henson Awards at Clarice Smith, Mar 5

TDPS Henson Awards
Tuesday, March 5, 2024 • 7:30PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

The talented student recipients of the Jim Henson Fund for Puppetry will perform/present their funded projects.

The School of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies hosts an annual competition and recipients are awarded funds to create a puppet project or performance. The Jim Henson Fund for Puppetry was established by Jane Henson ’55 to honor the memory of Jim Henson ’60, creator of the world famous Muppets.

Tickets: $25 General, or $10 Students. Click here.

Blue Sky Puppets presents Rufus at the SAARC, Jan 27

Blue Sky Puppets presents Rufus at the SAARC, Jan 27

M-NCPPC presents:
Blue Sky Puppet Theatre Presents “Rufus”

Sat., Jan. 27, 2024, 9:30 am

Location: Southern Area Aquatic and Recreation Complex
Address: 13601 Missouri Avenue, Brandywine, MD 20613
Phone: 301 782 1442

Blue Sky Puppet Theatre presents “Rufus,” a fast-paced and funny story about acceptance and inclusion with an adorable main character.

Tickets ($5/children 12 & under, $10/adult)

Nehprii Amenii: Food for the Gods at Clarice Smith, Dec 7-9

Nehprii Amenii: Food for the Gods at Clarice Smith, Dec 7-9

Nehprii Amenii: Food for the Gods

December 7-9, 2023
Thu, Dec 7, 2023 . 7:00PM
Thu, Dec 7, 2023 . 9:00PM
Fri, Dec 8, 2023 . 7:00PM
Fri, Dec 8, 2023 . 9:00PM
Sat, Dec 9, 2023 . 7:00PM
Sat, Dec 9, 2023 . 9:00PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

A multimedia performance installation about “human value,” Food for the Gods is a three-part expression of rage and indifference. Inspired by the killings of Black men, this work uses object and puppet performance to explore dehumanization, light, invisibility and well…the magical-less-ness of it all.

Nehprii Amenii is a Brooklyn-based writer, director, production designer and educator. As a theater artist, she has a passion for personal narratives, puppetry and grand-scale spectacle. She is known for creating experiences that dismantle the wall between players and audiences, enchant the imagination and inspire new ways of seeing and thinking. Amenii has worked with Bread & Puppet Theater, Alvin Ailey, La Mama, The O’Neill, NY Philharmonic and more. She is a member of Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab and a resident director with the Drama League. Amenii is artistic director of Khunum Productions, a platform for creative anthropology.

Food for the Gods has been presented at Sarah Lawrence College, The University of Cape Town, South Africa, Connecticut Repertory Theatre and La MaMa Experimental Theatre Company, NYC.

Tickets: $25 general, $10 students. Click here

Peter and the Wolf at the Publick Playhouse, Nov 20

Peter and the Wolf at the Publick Playhouse, Nov 20

Prince George’s Publick Playhouse and The Puppet Company present:
Peter and the Wolf
presented by Christopher Piper
music by Sergei Prokofiev

Monday, November 20, 2023, 10am

Prince George’s Publick Playhouse.

Join us for the Puppet Co. legacy favorite, first brought to us by TPC Founder, Christopher Piper. This production will incorporate the classic music in this two-person marionette romp. Enjoy this beloved tale of Peter and his friends and family as they experience the seasons and look for the Wolf.

$5. Click here.