Tag Archives: Puppet

Bread & Puppet: The Obligation to Live at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Apr 10-11

Bread & Puppet: The Obligation to Live at Joe’s Movement Emporium, Apr 10-11

Joe’s Movement Emporium presents:
Bread & Puppet: The Obligation to Live

Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 7 pm
Friday, April 11, 2025 at 7 pm

Location: Joe’s Movement Emporium.

Puppet show! Puppet show! Bread & Puppet Theater is excited to announce their return to Joe’s in April 2025.

The show will include puppets large and small, music, up-to-the-minute politics, and spectacles not to be missed. After the show Bread & Puppet will serve its famous sourdough rye bread with aioli, and Bread & Puppet’s “Cheap Art” – books, posters, postcards, pamphlets and banners from the Bread & Puppet Press – will be for sale. No one turned away for lack of funds. We mean it. If you need assistance with a ticket, please email breadandpuppetreservations@gmail.com.

*Please note that, as a political theater company, we aim to keep our work as up-to-the-minute and relevant as possible. Our work is constantly changing.*

Tickets: $35 General, $25 Youth/Senior. Click here.

A Night with Megan Piphus Peace at the Clarice, Mar 12

A Night with Megan Piphus Peace at the Clarice, Mar 12

The University of Maryland and the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center present:
A Night with Megan Piphus Peace

Wednesday, March 12, 2025 • 7:30PM

Venue: Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.

Groundbreaking Black puppeteer Megan Piphus Peace will share her experiences and career highlights, including her work on Sesame Street. Dean Stephanie Shonekan will moderate the conversation. Megan will also do a short performance with her favorite puppets.

Tickets: Free, tickets required, click here.

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.

Henson Awards Showcase 2023 at Clarice Smith, Mar 30

Henson Awards Showcase 2023 at Clarice Smith, Mar 30

Henson Awards Showcase 2023
Thursday, March 30, 2023 . 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.

Free, no tickets required. Click here.

Join us in person at The Clarice! Please note that this performance will not be livestreamed.