Paperhand Puppet Intervention and Grammy nominees Pierce and Nnenna Freelon are performing a show Wednesday at DPAC called, “Where Our Spirits Reside.” Giant puppets are teaming up with a couple of ...

Paperhand Puppet Intervention is getting back on its feet after the destruction of Tropical Storm Chantal. The group is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a new show called "The Gift." It tells the ...

Ever since its off off Broadway debut in 2011, Robert Askins’ comedy “Hand to God” has been known as a demonic puppet comedy so raunchy it makes “Avenue Q” seem like kid’s stuff. But beyond the dozens ...

Althea Clayton, a puppeteer with Paperhand Puppet Intervention, looks out from a river puppet during a rehearsal for the organization’s show, “The Gift,” on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025, at the Forest ...

The Paperhand Puppet Project debuted its show, The Gift, just over a month after its studio in Saxapahaw flooded during Tropical Storm Chantal. Executive Director Donovan Zimmerman said the theatre is ...

The best show I saw at the first Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival in 2015 was “The Table” by England's Blind ...