The local self-described activist opera company White Snake Projects is gearing up for the open of their new season on September 22. The season kicks off with a world premiere of a unique new opera ...

A four-year-old watches as a monkey hand puppet approaches a vase containing a red and a blue plastic flower. The monkey sneezes. The monkey backs away, returns to sniff again, and again sneezes. An ...

Walk into the Fremont studio of puppetmaker Annett Mateo and you’ll find yourself in a marionette menagerie. There’s a swan and an elephant from Camille Saint-Saën’s “Carnival of the Animals” and a ...

PASADENA – Not many adults get to play with their childhood toys for a living, but Michael Dowell does it so well that he’s teaching it. Dowell, known by his artist name of Michael Moodoo, has been ...