San Diego's Twisted Heart Puppetworks presents the first annual "Shadows Across the Globe" virtual, worldwide shadow puppet festival July 9-11, 2021, with free performances streaming online.

Shadow puppet plays were an essential part of celebrations at birthdays, weddings and funerals. Although much of it was aimed at the masses, members of nobility enjoyed it too, ...

Intricate figures leap, dance and do battle in ‘Song of the North,’ one of the shows featured in the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, kicking off Jan. 18.

Item 1 of 5 Shadow play troupe members hold puppets made for a Winter Olympics-themed show, behind a screen at the Longzaitian, or Dragon in the Sky, shadow puppet theatre in Beijing, China ...