I began my career as a professional puppeteer with Famous PEOPLE Players (FPP) a really acclaimed black light theatre company. I spent almost four years there in the late `90s and it was a really remarkable formative experience for me. It's safe to say that not a single day goes by that I don't make...
Time Machine Guitar is a new aspiring TV series that describes itself as "like Mr. Rogers with a Stratocaster". Created by Grammy nominated children's singer Ralph Covert, the show is built around Ralph and his (wait for it) time machine guitar having time traveling musical adventures with a bunch of puppet friends....
Puppetry is going to play a big role in this year's...
Remember when Fox News accused The Muppets of being anti-oil? Well, at a press conference in the UK last week Kermit and Piggy decided to hit...
I stumbled across this online while doing some research earlier this week; it's an excerpt from a CBC interview with Jim Henson taped on the set of Fraggle Rock in 1983....
Music video for the song Lake Tahoe, from Kate Bush's latest album 50 Words For...
This is a nearly 50 year old film produced by Jim Henson that was recently rediscovered and released online by AT&T. Robot is one Jim Henson’s business films from the 1960s, it was shot in 1963 for an elite seminar organized for business owners on the then-brand-new topic of Data Communications. From the video’s YouTube...
Ladies, this blog is for...
Today is the first day of the Chinese New Year and the beginning of the Chinese Spring Festival. Lion and Dragon dances featuring giant puppets are a staple of the festivities in Chinese communities around the world, but to celebrate the Year of the Water Dragon children in Bangkok were recently treated to a special,...
I'm in New York City today and really excited to be interviewing Lejo for PuppetVision: The Movie. While I'm gone, check out this great commercial that he made back in...
I don't usually write posts about live/local puppetry here, but the next month or so is such great time to see some great puppetry in Toronto that I couldn't resist....
Tough Pigs recently sat down for an interview with Bonnie Erickson, a former head of the Muppet Workshop and currently the Executive Director of the Jim Henson...