The Bread and Puppet Theater was founded in 1963 on New York City’s Lower East Side. It gets its name from the fact that Shumann himself would bake dozens of loaves of sourdough bread, giving them ...

Vermont's internationally acclaimed Bread and Puppet Theater will return to the University of Connecticut for two outdoor afternoon performances of Aeschylus' tragedy The Persians on April 23 and 24, ...

For its fourth installment of the 2022 Spring Puppet Forum Series, the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry will host "Bread and Puppet's The Persians: Making and Performing a Puppet Tragedy," ...

A puppeteer plays a mourning mother in Gaza during a performance of Our Domestic Resurrection Revolution In Progress! in Ypsilanti, Mich. (Timothy Chen Allen) Generations of peacenik Americans first ...

Bread and Puppet Theater founder Peter Schumann Credit: Jeb Wallace-Brodeur Late last year, Bread and Puppet Theater expanded its home base in Glover with the purchase of 23 acres of neighboring land.

Bread and Puppet Theater kicks off the FireFish Festival at 4 p.m., Sept. 17, as it makes a rare cross-country tour this fall. The iconic political puppet theater company brings “The Apocalypse ...

BELLOWS FALLS — You don’t have to travel to the Northeast Kingdom town of Glover to see the art of the famed Bread and Puppet Theatre and Domestic and Resurrection Circus this winter. A display of the ...

The Kompass Quartet performing Grosse Fuge at Bread and Puppet Theater’s Paper Mâché Cathedral Credit: Jeb Wallace-Brodeur Artists Peter Schumann and Charlie Morrow have built reputations from works ...

The legendary Vermont political performance troupe Bread and Puppet Theater returns to Connecticut with its “The Beginning After the End of Humanity Circus.” Bread and Puppet presents socially ...

Generations of peacenik Americans first saw Bread and Puppet Theater during anti-war protests. Giant white birds on rods soared high over marchers against U.S. military actions in Vietnam, Central ...