Puppets are within the highlight this weekend and over the following couple of weeks, most prominently on the third annual Puppetopia Competition:

HERE Arts Middle, February 27 to March 10
The third annual Puppetopia competition options 4 works over two weeks

The Adventures of Curious Ganz, Feb 27-March 2

A fictitious story based mostly on the true lifetime of Sixteenth-century copper smelter Joachim Ganz.

Pescador, Feb 28 – March 3
The world of impartial fishermen, offered by the Silencio Blanco theater firm

Marooned! A Area Comedy, March 5 – 10
An astronaut crashes on an uncharted planet. 

Lectures, March 6 – 10

A woman who’s navigating a difficult dwelling life, a carousel horse-maker caught in time, and a physics lecturer (based mostly loosely on the physicist Richard Feynman) who serves as a bridge between their two worlds.

This Weekend

Resort Comfortable, 122 CC, by March 3

This play about sexual tourism in Colombia options intercourse staff at a resort who conceal a donkey from American mercenaries. The donkey is a life-size puppet.

The Colours of Frida/Los Colores de Frida, Teatro SEA at Repertoria Español, February 24

A bilingual, one-woman present concerning the nice Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, which mixes storytelling, music, visible arts, puppets and viewers participation.

The Baffo Field Present, February 24, Jalopy Theater
 Basic hand puppetry, Dadaist ventriloquism, and stand-up comedy from a cardboard field dwell on stage

Nice Small Works Spaghetti Dinner Cabaret, February 25, Jalopy Theater
Not likely a spaghetti dinner, only a collection of small-scale exhibits, together with one utilizing s cranky (a hand-cranked transferring scroll, with flat paper puppets) to inform the story of Robert Walser, whose assortment of microscopic texts, written on the backs of visiting playing cards, envelopes, and matchbooks, was present in a shoebox after his demise in 1956. 

Horror film

“stopmotion”, opening in cinemas nationwide at this time, is a film a few stop-motion animator who’s struggling to manage her demons after the lack of her overbearing mom. Instantly alone on this planet, she embarks upon the creation of a macabre new puppet movie, which quickly turns into the battleground for her sanity.

Broadway

Water for Elephants, a Broadway musical set in a touring circus, begins performances tomorrow on the Imperial Theater (opening March 21.) It options puppetry designed by Camille Labarre who labored beforehand on the puppetry in Into the Woods), 

Past

Acupunk, Feb 29 – March 2, Lincoln Middle

A FREE poetic parade efficiency that includes the Quebec firm Théâtre de la Dame de Coeur’s big puppets, Eria and Terrenis

The Storyville Mosquito, Lincoln Middle, March 14 and 15

 A younger mosquito leaves his small city within the nation to hunt fame and fortune within the huge metropolis and fulfill his dream of taking part in in one of many best bands of all time. A group of 14 performers carry this story to life concurrently on stage and display, incorporating miniature units, dwell music, dwell puppetry.

Cardboard Explosion, Flushing City Corridor, March 16
Puppeteer Brad Shur tells 4 authentic tales utilizing nothing however cardboard