It’s the damnedest thing: Justin Snyder, his long hair parted down the middle, his head thrown back as though communing with a higher power, the hood of his hoodie grazing the floor, his mouth working ...

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“My brother and I were always kind of strange children growing up,” says Justin Snyder, who collected puppets with his brother Shayne. The brothers also studied music early in school and developed a ...

Stage and set designer Bill Fosser worked on Hollywood hits like Home Alone, The Sting and Ordinary People. “He was indeed a genius,” recalls actor Tony Mockuss. “He had the eye.” But the apple of ...

The Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre was halfway through 'The Enchanted Forest” when the pandemic dragon reared its fire-breathing snout and shut down the 2020 Young Artists' elementary school tour. Company ...

A puppet opera artist rehearses at an art institute of the puppet opera in Ruicheng county, Shanxi province, August 6, 2014. [Photo/Xinhua] Ruicheng puppet opera, popular in Ruicheng county and other ...

The title role of Madame Butterfly in Opera Philadelphia's production is represented by a puppet, voiced and manipulated by Karen Chia-ling Ho. (Emma Lee/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South ...

There are no lions and tigers and bears at the Berkeley Opera's latest offering, a double-bill program of Maurice Ravel's "L'Enfant et les Sortileges" and Bela Bartok's "Bluebeard's Castle," opening ...

Ashura is the tenth of the month of Muharram which marks the anniversary of the martyrdom of Imam Hussein (AS) and a number of his followers. “I discussed the idea with the culture ministry and the ...

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