OSKALOOSA — As kids trickled into the staging area to join him for the upcoming puppet parade, Brant Bollman would shout out the time left until the parade's start time of 2 p.m. Saturday. "Five ...

To watch a puppet is to feel for it, says Sarah Olmsted Thomas, the troupe’s other mastermind. “You’re viewing something that is otherwise an object, and it’s no longer objectified.

Now, after a 20-year hiatus, “Firebird” is being revived with Leo Holder, Geoffrey Holder’s son, working with Robert Garland, executive artistic director of the Dance Theatre of Harlem, on ...

Meat Puppets (1982) The first time the Meat Puppets recorded for SST Records and worked with the label’s in-house producer Glen “Spot” Lockett, the entire band took LSD before the sessions.

John Lithgow and Geoffrey Rush give outstanding performances in The Rule of Jenny Pen, a dark thriller about an old bully and his terrifying baby doll puppet.

Geoffrey Rush in ‘The Rule of Jenny Pen’ Courtesy IFC Films/Everett Collection The ideal mountaintop for a Machiavellian hand-puppet, the legendary wrist of Academy Award winner John Lithgow ...

These oddly expressive figurines from the ancient Maya world were probably puppets for ritual scenes — and perhaps used for portraying people long dead. J. Przedwojewska-Szymańska/PASI ...

Several clay puppets featuring eerie open-mouthed expressions were found at the summit of a pyramid in El Salvador. These figurines date back approximately 2,400 years.

A collection of 2,400-year-old ceramic puppets found atop a Salvadorian pyramid are forcing archaeologists to rethink the country’s historical connection with its Central American neighbors.

True cinema is John Lithgow terrorizing Geoffrey Rush in a nursing home with his creepy hand puppet. On the basis of its premise alone, The Rule of Jenny Pen is a must-see thriller.

Fan response to Master of Puppets upon its release Fans celebrated the album’s ambitious and complex sound, recognizing it as a step forward in the band’s evolution.