Through 9/29: Paperhand Puppet Intervention’s EARTH & SKY
CHAPEL HILL, NC – This summer’s political party conventions? Strictly small potatoes....
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Category: Puppet Theatre
The North Carolina Symphony Welcomes Fans of All Ages and Abilities with Happy Feet to a Latin Beat
Between the holiday season and New Year celebrations, the North Carolina Symphony has had a full dance card leading into the new decade. With a four-day, three-city tour of their upcoming offering “The Planets,”...
Read MorePaperhand’s We Are Here Is an Environmentalist’s Call-to-Arms
Paperhand Puppet Intervention has been presenting glorious shows of puppetry and magic in the Forest Theatre (123 S. Boundary Street, Chapel Hill) for some years now. In fact, the group has become a mainstay at this location,...
Read MoreForest Theatre Comes to Life as Paperhand Puppet Intervention Presents In the Heart of the Fire
For the nineteenth year in a row, Chapel Hill’s resident puppetry outfit, Paperhand Puppet Intervention, has brought the usually-quiet Forest Theatre back to life as it presents its annual Puppet Extravaganza. This year,...
Read MorePPI’s Beautiful Beasts and Friendly Monsters Populate Forest Theatre
After a summer gully-washer wiped out their Friday performance, Paperhand Puppet Intervention opened their 2016 summer show with a packed theater Saturday night. Folks began arriving at Chapel Hill’s Forest Theatre around...
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The Gregg Presents Life’s Little Dramas
What’s a museum to do when between buildings? Pop up exhibitions, of course. And what could...
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The Gregg Presents Life’s Little Dramas
What’s a museum to do when between buildings? Pop up exhibitions, of course. And what could...
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Sampling World and World-Class Puppetry with Teatro Hugo & Ines
American puppets must seem so boring to the rest of the world. For a large part, the American tradition of puppetry is exemplified by the ventriloquist routine: a simple dummy paired with a comedian who does funny voices. And of...
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Grace, Style, and Color Mark Paperhand Puppet Intervention’s The Painted Bird
Chapel Hill’s Forest Theater comes alive once again as Paperhand Puppet Intervention begins its summer production, The Painted Bird. Written by Jan Burger and Donovan Zimmerman and underscored by an orchestra of eight...
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Duke Performances Premieres Love’s Infrastructure
Torry Bend is a brilliant designer and object theatre artist, currently an assistant professor in Duke’s Dept. of Theatre Studies. She makes — if not entire worlds — cities in which her marionettes act stories...
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Superb Puppet Creations and Sumptuous Staging Make Up Paperhand Puppet Intervention’s Invisible Earth
Paperhand Puppet Intervention once again populates UNC’s Forest Theatre for a month-long run of their newest original work, Invisible Earth, a short history of the world beginning with the first signs of life and...
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Basil Twist’s Unique Vision of The Rite of Spring for Carolina Performing Arts
In his introductory remarks, Emil Kang, Executive Director for the Arts at UNC Chapel Hill, stated that of all the programs presented this remarkable season by Carolina Performing Arts (CPA), this was the one he was most nervous...
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