Among the various attractions during the ongoing Dasara festivities in Mysuru is a puppet show that seeks to narrate mythological stories through rod puppets. The Mysuru Puppet Theatre, which is the ...

A few minutes into Friday evening’s performance at the Emerson Paramount Center, countertenor Chuanyuan Liu leaped onto a table, picked up a spray bottle, and spritzed the five craggy, mountain-shaped ...

Catch eight very different plays at this weeklong annual children’s theatre festival The eighth edition of Ranga Shankara’s ‘AHA!’ International Theatre Festival for Children 2015 unfolds on July 12 ...

HYDERABAD: Puppetry, an ancient form of storytelling, recently experienced a revival in Hyderabad thanks to Kannada Natya Ranga. The Sundarayya Kala Nilaya hosted a mesmerising leather puppet show, ...

CHENNAI: Letting sunlight through the transparent skin, the Thollu Bommas (leather puppets) hanging on a thin wire, gleams making the kings, demons and gods glow. Carefully arranging his art works, ...

Prepare to enter the magical colourful, mythological world of the Saigon Water Puppets, writes Arminta Wallace. They hurtle towards us at the speed of light; then suddenly, exuberantly, wheel to face ...

A golden mask floats mid-air. There is a blindfold over the eyes. The body is made using a long stretch of silky fabric, with multiple severed heads stitched in. It’s the life-sized puppet of Gandhari ...