These early Jim Henson puppets (you might recognize the frog on the right) appeared in a local Washington, D.C. television show “Sam and Friends” that ran from 1955 to 1961. Headed by Kermit, Henson’s ...

When teachers noticed that children in Oakland preschool and kindergarten classrooms were not engaging in imaginative play or interacting with each other as much after the pandemic, staff at ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will open the new display “Puppetry in America” Dec. 13, featuring several Jim Henson puppet characters, the namesake puppet from The Howdy Doody ...

Puppets are everywhere—on beloved TV shows and movies, in local theatre productions, in classrooms, and even at the doctor’s office. And while most parents may not know this, puppets are also integral ...

For generations, the Nguyen village in Dong Hung commune, Hung Yen province has been one of the cultural cradles of Vietnam’s ...

The Lion King features co-puppet design by Julie Taymor and Michael Curry. There are more than 232 puppets in the show, including rod puppets, shadow puppets and full-sized puppets. The Lion King ...

Hours before the start of the day’s filming on the Sony Pictures soundstage that is home base for Showtime’s “Kidding,” the proceedings were already in controlled-chaos mode. Ennui Le Triste, the show ...

With most of the population gone, residents of one village in Japan have come up with a novel plan to make it less lonely — replacing people with puppets. Fewer than 60 people live in Ichinono, and ...