Madigan Burke is one of the members of the Chicago Puppet Lab presenting their work at this weekend's showcase. Credit: Courtesy Chicago Puppet Lab The annual Chicago International Puppet Theater ...

For centuries Kasperle, a long-nosed marionette with the virtues of Galahad and the deportment of Mortimer Snerd, has been muddling his way to victory over the villains of Germany’s popular puppet ...

Howdy Doody, NBC’s popular cowboy puppet (TIME, April 5), had his huge audience of kids worried. Howdy had disappeared. A month ago, when NBC refused to give him a raise, Frank Paris, Howdy’s builder ...

DISCLAIMER: Let’s just get this out of the way. I love Bread & Puppet Theater. I’ve seen them perform dozens of times, and I’ve performed with them on several occasions.