Category Archives: Puppet

Watkins Nature Center Puppet Show, Nov 3-10 at 10am

Watkins Nature Center Puppet Show, Aug 11-Nov 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:

November 3 & 10, 2023

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. Click here.

Watkins Nature Center Puppet Show, Oct 6 & 7 at 10am

Watkins Nature Center Puppet Show, Oct 6 & 7 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:
October 6 & 13, 2023
November 3 & 10, 2023

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. Click here.

Watkins Nature Center Puppet Show, Sep 1 & 8 at 10am

Watkins Nature Center Puppet Show, Aug 11-Nov 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:
September 1 & 8, 2023
October 6 & 13, 2023
November 3 & 10, 2023

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. Click here.

Watkins Nature Center Puppet Show, Aug 11 & 18 at 10am

Watkins Nature Center Puppet Show, Aug 11 & 18 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:
August 11 & 18, 2023

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

Puppet Friends in Storyland: Scarlet Skunk & Francois the Flying Squirrel

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! Join Scarlet Skunk & Francois the Flying Squirrel in the month of August 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. Click here.

National Puppetry Festival at Clarice Smith, Jul 19-22

National Puppetry Festival at Clarice Smith, Jul 19-22

2023 National Puppetry Festival

All events are in person or livestream. Purchase separate tickets for each performance.

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

Wed, Jul 19, 2023 . 09:00PM to 10:00PM
Marooned! (Alex and Olmstead)

Alex and Olmsted’s Jim Henson Foundation grant awarded MAROONED! A Space Comedy is an innovative new puppet show, featuring music from the Voyager Golden Record, that takes place at the outer reaches of space. An astronaut crashes on an uncharted planet. Will she be able to survive strange creatures, anomalous atmosphere, and isolation in order to find her way home? See for yourself… in MAROONED!

Thu, Jul 20, 2023 . 09:00PM to 10:00PM
SPINOKIO (5P1N0K10)

Using music, video, and magical marionettes, the show spins the story to which its title and Jeghetto’s moniker refer into an Afrofuturist parable about a robot that longs to be a real B boy in a post apocalyptic future. The 5P1N0K10 universe takes the stage. This Hip Hopera created by Jeghetto and cowritten by Pierce Freelon was awarded grants from the Henson Foundation two years in a row.

Fri, Jul 21, 2023 . 09:00PM to 10:00PM
National Puppetry Festival: Terry Fator

The most successful performer to emerge from the America’s Got Talent franchise and Las Vegas legend Terry Fator will share a special program exclusively for the Puppeteers of America National Festival. Part performance, part discussion, and part Q&A, Terry will perform several pieces showcasing his amazing vocal abilities and share stories of his experiences in the national spotlight. Terry is eager to join puppetry colleagues on the campus which has been so important to the history of American puppetry, and he hopes to help inspire the next generation of puppeteers.

Sat, Jul 22, 2023 . 07:00PM to 09:00PM
National Puppetry Festival: Awards Ceremony

Sat, Jul 22, 2023 . 09:00PM to 10:00PM
PACKRAT by Concrete Temple Theatre

Set deep in the Sagebrush Desert, PACKRAT is a visually stunning puppet play that contemplates humanity’s relationship with the natural world. Puppetry, projections and an original score elegantly come together to shape what The New Times called, “a journey of rescue and redemption…Thoroughly mesmerizing … amazingly expressive.” Inspired by the classic adventure novel, “Watership Down,” PACKRAT follows one peculiar rodent, Bud, who has a penchant for hoarding humankind’s goods.

Tickets: In-person performances, tickets are $30. Livestream tickets are $20. Award ceremony is pay-what-you-wish, minimum $5. Click here.