December 17, 2024 5:32 pm
Playwright Lolita Chakrabarti and puppetry director Finn Caldwell share their process of creating the stage production of ‘Life of Pi’, which is being performed at NMACC, Mumbai.
June 01, 2023 9:56 am
Little Amal demands empathy, the puppet of a vulnerable, naïve girl who is in a strange place after surviving a long ordeal alone.
March 21, 2023 2:47 pm
Some communities, including in West Bengal, Odisha and in Delhi, are struggling due to lack of state support and patronage and simply because they could not upgrade their skills in keeping with the times, experts said on World Puppet Day on Tuesday.
February 18, 2023 12:40 pm
First launched in 2001, the festival brings together puppeteers, artists and performers from around the globe to celebrate puppetry through a diverse range of storylines and techniques
February 02, 2023 2:32 pm
The festival will be parallelly held at Tagore Theatre in Chandigarh from February 13 to 16.
September 19, 2022 12:00 pm
The puppet comes to the city after completing a 5,000-mile trek across Europe, from the Syrian-Turkish border to Manchester in northwest England. She has traveled through 12 countries — including greeting refuges from Ukraine at a Polish train station and stopping at refugee camps in Greece — and met with Pope Francis
April 20, 2022 2:38 pm
Apart from the plays, the festival will also have an array of activities such as workshops on theatre, dance, puppetry, and filmmaking.
April 04, 2022 7:06 pm
Pili International Multimedia, which makes Taiwan's longest-running television show featuring the puppets at its studio in central Taiwan's Yunlin County, says it wants to use NFTs as another source of revenue.
February 01, 2022 4:48 pm
The troupe, which started its business in 2007, makes its own puppets, carving the intricate cutouts from leather and painting them in vibrant colours, a technique that has barely changed over thousands of years.
December 30, 2021 8:52 pm
Puppeteer Anurupa Roy writes about the significance of telling stories, art and artistes in the current times, and that the dark days, too, shall pass
March 21, 2018 8:49 pm
On the occasion of World Puppetry Day, which is observed on March 21, puppet masters from all over West Bengal came under one roof to celebrate. The performances were presented by several traditional and contemporary puppet theater groups. Check out the pictures here.





