A nice tribute to Jim Henson, whom the world sadly lost all-too-soon on this day in...
A nice tribute to Jim Henson, whom the world sadly lost all-too-soon on this day in...
I really love the work of Serpico, a magician from Argentina who is an incredibly talented shadow...
Jim Henson shows viewers around the Muppet Workshop in this 1989 segment for CBS This...
If you don't know the work of Basil Twist, you should. He's one of America's most outstanding puppeteers and creates work that has a beautiful, theatrical almost magical allure to...
Following the huge success of last year's Kevin Clash documentary Being Elmo comes the news that Sesame Street's Caroll Spinney will be profiled in a documentary currently in production called I Am Big Bird....
A Puppeteer's Story is a short documentary about Canadian puppeteer Mike...
From Australia's ABC Network comes a brief, but great profile of Richard Bradshaw, one of the funniest and most talented shadow puppeteers in the...
Richard Butchins' documentary about British puppeteer Frank Mumford is raising money on IndieGoGo again. Let's help make this great film...
A great (and rare) look at the men who build traditional water puppets in a small village in Northern Vietnam. This is from a documentary that Italian film student Alessandra Grassi is currently working on. She spent two months in Vietnam in 2011 and if this footage is any indication, her film is going to...
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...
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....
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...