The Bread and Puppet Theater was founded in 1963 on New York City’s Lower East Side. It gets its name from the fact that Shumann himself would bake dozens of loaves of sourdough bread, giving them ...

After two pandemic years, Bread & Puppet Theater, the acclaimed 58-year-old avant garde company, returns to New York's Theater for the New City to present two urgently-needed political puppet shows.

Bread and Puppet Theater kicks off the FireFish Festival at 4 p.m., Sept. 17, as it makes a rare cross-country tour this fall. The iconic political puppet theater company brings “The Apocalypse ...

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A puppeteer plays a mourning mother in Gaza during a performance of Our Domestic Resurrection Revolution In Progress! in Ypsilanti, Mich. (Timothy Chen Allen) Generations of peacenik Americans first ...

BELLOWS FALLS — You don’t have to travel to the Northeast Kingdom town of Glover to see the art of the famed Bread and Puppet Theatre and Domestic and Resurrection Circus this winter. A display of the ...

Elka Schumann, a pivotal figure in Bread and Puppet Theater and the wife of the theater company’s founder, Peter Schumann, died yesterday at North Country Hospital in Newport after a massive stroke.

The legendary Vermont political performance troupe Bread and Puppet Theater returns to Connecticut with its “The Beginning After the End of Humanity Circus.” Bread and Puppet presents socially ...

Bread and Puppet Theater founder Peter Schumann Credit: Jeb Wallace-Brodeur Late last year, Bread and Puppet Theater expanded its home base in Glover with the purchase of 23 acres of neighboring land.

The Kompass Quartet performing Grosse Fuge at Bread and Puppet Theater’s Paper Mâché Cathedral Credit: Jeb Wallace-Brodeur Artists Peter Schumann and Charlie Morrow have built reputations from works ...

Generations of peacenik Americans first saw Bread and Puppet Theater during anti-war protests. Giant white birds on rods soared high over marchers against U.S. military actions in Vietnam, Central ...