A monkey, a pirate, and a valuable banana treasure all add up to plenty of hilarious fun in this rollicking and rambunctious original show.

The best show I saw at the first Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival in 2015 was “The Table” by England's Blind ...

Everyone tells filmmakers to write what they know, so Nina Conti wrote a movie about a woman who can’t stop pretending to be a monkey. If you know much about ventriloquism, Conti’s name should be ...

Philip Hatter is all grown up now. But he still remembers his favorite toy. "It was a monkey puppet," said Hatter, who received it as a Christmas present when he was 7. "It had those arms and legs ...

Theater artist Jacky Kelsey was driving back from their grandmother’s farm when five white owls appeared out of nowhere and flew over the car. It was a “spooky, alien site,” they said. Throughout ...

Longtime volunteer artist Ewart Martens tinkered with a piece of rubber, trying to wrap it around a white plastic tube and a metal wire. This combination of previously used materials eventually became ...

A life-size red-head David Bowie stands in a corner opposite a star-gazing magical Prince. Across from them, a gnarly possum named Roadkill Joey sits eating pink cake. Elsewhere, a stony masked face ...