Bhimavva Shillekyathara, a 96-year-old puppeteer, received the Padma Shri award. She was honored for her lifelong dedication ...

“Scene of Souls in Hell” (19th century), donkey skin; Shaanxi, China (all images courtesy Museu do Oriente) LISBON — Asian shadow theater is catnip for those with energetic imaginations. Its ...

By Karen Taylor Thousands of miles apart, shadow puppets are used in two very different corners of the world to tell stories against a backdrop no more dramatic than a large white sheet. Using ...

Naga, a mythical serpent (late 1700s–early 1800s), West Java (all images © The Trustees of the British Museum, courtesy the British Museum) For centuries, shadow ...

Walk into Clinical Trial No. 0001, and you're not merely taking your seat in the audience—you've unknowingly enrolled ...

An Emmy Award-winning performance collective is making a second appearance at the Spoleto Festival since being founded back in 2010. Manual Cinema has been an innovative force in the shadow puppet ...

Never work with children or animals, goes the actors’ maxim. Perhaps add puppets to that, too. “We’ve got the trifecta right here,” says Australian puppeteer Peter Wilson during rehearsals for “Bali ...

In India, shadow puppetry is known by different names regionally, like ‘tholu bommalata’ in Andhra Pradesh, ‘togalu gombeyaata’ in Karnataka, ‘charma bahuli natya’ in Maharashtra, the ‘ravanachhaya’ ...

My brush was tiny, more like something you’d use for nail polish. That was apt because I was struggling to paint the toenails of my dragon shadow puppet. Dipping the silken brush into a pot of ...

Google’s newest AI experiment hopes to connect people to the ancient art of shadow puppetry. What started as an interactive installment last year has become an online application for exploring shadow ...