Computers are like a bicycle for our minds, Steve Jobs once said. It remains a wonderful metaphor to this day. With a stroke of the key, just like a stroke of the pedal, computers amplify our ...

Life under the sea is raising questions about the future of humanity in the age of technology in “Human,” a show featuring five performers, sea creatures as puppets, music, multimedia imagery and ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook La MaMa Puppet Festival and other stage works this fall highlight the power of storytelling through puppetry. By Laura ...

Tizar Purbaya, one of the most celebrated puppet masters of Indonesia, has a fair command of English, but it doesn't hurt to have a translator to help with the occasional hard-to-place word. When he ...

On Friday, a 12-foot-tall, 10-year-old Syrian refugee will arrive in Baltimore. She’ll spend two days in Charm City, meeting with the mayor, grooving at festivals and experiencing what life here is ...

One of the many bitter ironies of our human-driven climate catastrophe is that plastic trash makes for beautiful puppets. That dissonance is on full and gorgeous display in ”Human,” a work by ...