In two piercing works, the National Bunraku Theatre’s puppets—floating, airy creatures weighted by earthly human ...

Dominique Morisseau meditates on identity, and on the possibilities of language, in her new play, set in Haiti.

For the first time in about 30 years, a Japanese theater that uses human-sized puppets is performing across the country.

Bunraku features a samurai with no sword and a cowboy with no gun as they join forces to take down a gang of vicious killers.

Best known for her black cut-paper silhouettes, American artist Kara Walker takes a new technological approach in her latest ...

Japan Society will present a world premiere double bill of contemporary puppet theater with Shinnai Meets Puppetry, created & ...

By the early 1700s, cities and commerce flourish. A growing merchant class enjoys Kabuki and Bunraku theater. Printing and publication of books increase; education becomes available to the urban ...

Disney’s furry cub is all grown up. This month The Lion King London production celebrates 25 years in town – it’s the ...

She is keen to point out that there is absolutely zero Japanese Bunraku puppetry or Balinese shadow puppetry in The Lion King – there are only techniques inspired by those traditions.

Handspring Puppet Company, known for War Horse and stole hearts with Little Amal, joins Cape Town's Baxter Theatre to ...

Starting in November, the pirate comic series, which has sold more than 510 million copies worldwide, will be the basis of Seiwa Bunraku, a kind of “ningyo joruri” doll drama, at Museum Seiwa ...

Marking the fiftieth anniversary of its Manton Research Center, the Clark Art Institute presents the opportunity to see a selection of prints, drawings, and photographs acquired between 1973 and 2023.