Resources & Services - Puppet Places - Theaters - Centers - Museums
Most puppeteers are accustomed to bringing their shows to the audience - to schools, churches, fairs, meetings and other venues. A few organizations, however, have been able to establish fixed locations where the public can experience puppetry on a regular basis. Some centers cooperate in booking touring puppeteers at their puppet centers.

A puppet center is defined as: a place and service that is open to the public, with a schedule that is known about in advance. Some are puppetry museums, some are physical spaces dedicated to regular presentation of puppet theatre, and many offer combinations of performances, exhibits, learning materials, workshops and guild meetings.

We realize this list is incomplete. To find other puppetry places check web sites such as www.puppet.org and www.onpuppet.org and www.americantheaterweb.com or www.theatre-resources.net as well as news outlets for year-round theaters who sometimes offer puppetry performances (such as the New Victory theater, NYC, NY.)

If you have a place, a performance season or a museum dedicated to puppet arts that is open to the public, and feel it belongs on this list, please contact: Peggy Melchior Pearson, 3608 Woodland Streams Ct. Greenwood, IN 46143 (800) 849-4853 E-Mail Address


Arizona

Great Arizona Puppet Theater 302 West Latham St.
Phoenix, Az 85003		 Nancy Smith - Director
 (602) 262-2050
E-Mail Address
Shows by resident professional troupe and visiting national and international guest artists. Open to the public year-round, 5 days a week. Gift shop with puppets, puppet stages and books. Repertoire consists of classic fairy tales, original stories, and educational programs with a special emphasis on shows that celebrate Arizona's culture, heritage and ecology. New series features shows for adults.

California

Bob Baker Marionette Theatre 1345 W. 1st Street
Los Angeles, CA 90026		 Bob Baker - Director (213) 250-9995
E-Mail Address
The theatre was founded some 44 years ago, and is the oldest, longest running puppet theatre in America. Bob Baker, the proprietor, has been doing puppetry for 72 years, starting when he was 8 in 1932. Offering puppet shows & commercial puppets including the Disney line of collectible marionettes. The theatre seats approximately 250/300. Adults sit in chairs, children sit on the floor around a "magic circle" where the marionettes are brought out to them. (Children parading as adults may sit on the floor, too.)
 
Childrens' Fairyland Grand and Bellevue
Oakland, CA		 Randal Metz - Director (510) 452-2260
E-Mail Address
The Storybook Puppet Theater is the longest on-going professional puppet theater in the United States - founded in 1956. Resident Repertory Puppet Theater Company. Performances year round at 11, 2 and 4 o'clock. June- August: every day; September-October, and April-May: 5 days a week, Wednesday-Sunday; November-March: Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Weekend Puppet Fair in August with guest performers, workshops, exhibit.
 
Marie Hitchcock Puppet Theatre 2125 Park Blvd. - Balboa Park
San Diego, CA 92101-4792		 Millie Patterson - President Info. Line: (619) 544-9203
Email Address
Shows year round at the theater. Wednesday through Sunday
 
The Cotsen Center for Puppetry and the Arts. California Institute of the Arts
24700 McBean Parkway
Valencia, CA 91355-2397		 Janie Geiser
(661) 222-2738
Susan Simpson
(661) 253-7864		 E-Mail Address
Graduate and Undergraduate degrees in Theater, Art, Dance, Music, Film, and Critical Studies with a major concentration in Puppetry. The Cotsen Center is a laboratory for training and experimentation in the art of puppetry, with an emphasis on aesthetics, ideas, and interdisciplinary exploration. Visiting artists and productions throughout the year.
 
International Puppetry Museum

1062 N. Fair Oaks Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91103

mailing address:
1225 Calaveras Street
Altadena, CA 91101-2021

Beth Fernandez,
Exec. Director
(310) 372-2669
 (626) 296-1536
E-Mail Address
The Conservatory of Puppetry Arts, housing the famous puppet collection of Alan Cook, is a benefit to puppeteers and advocates of puppetry arts in the western United States. Our mission: To promote, preserve, and advance the international art of puppetry through outreach programs that blend performance, exhibitions, and education. We are still in the midst of cataloging Alan Cook's fabulous collection of puppets, books, posters, etc. We welcome visitors.
 
Puppetry Center of San Diego
operated by the San Diego Guild of Puppetry, Inc. 		8140 Greenlawn
San Diego, CA 92114		 Site Coordinator - Lynne Jennings
(619) 427-8088
E-Mail Address

24 hour info line: 1-800-954-6696
E-Mail Address
Exhibits. Literature and curriculum based education outreach programs. Community based, giant puppet parade pageants. Performances by local, national and international artists for children, families, adults. Workshops. Classes. Internships. Custom design: portrait puppets to giant parade figures. Puppet Theatre Writers' Conference.
 
Santa Monica Puppetry Center 1014 Broadway
Santa Monica, CA 90401		 Fred Mingo

(310) 656-0483

Colorado

Denver Puppet Theatre 3156 West 38th Avenue
Denver, CO 80211		 Annie Zook - Director
(303) 458-6446		 (202) 458-6446
E-Mail Address
Public shows Thursdays through Sundays. Private shows Tuesday and Wednesday. Six productions per year. Upcoming year presenting Baba Yaga, The Shoemaker and the Elves, Rapunzel, The Emperor's New Clothes, African Animal Tales, and Jack and the Bean Stalk.

Connecticut

O'Neill Puppetry Conference
Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center		 P.O. Box 616
Niantic, CT 06357		 Pam Arciero - Artistic Director
Bobbie Nidzgorski - Managing Director
(860) 739-7340 		E-Mail Address
Annual 8-day June conference focused on creating new works for the puppet theatre through the collaborative process. Participants work with renowned guest directors, puppet artists and playwrights to develop innovative productions, either conceived by guest artists, or presentations initiated by the conference participants.
 
Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry 6 Bourn Place U-212
Storrs, CT 06269-5212		 Steve Long - Chair
(860) 616-9083
E-Mail Address
Open year-round with changing exhibits, Friday-Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. Call ahead, especially in winter months. Arrangements for special tours and workshops can be made by calling CHERYL GARDNER at (860) 486-4605 BIMP sponsors special performances, educator workshops and other events. Check our website for current news.
 
UConn Puppetry Arts Program
University of Connecticut 		Puppet Arts Complex, Thompson Buidling
802 Bolton Rd. U-1127
Storrs, CT 06269-1127
 Bart P. Roccoberton, Jr. - Program Dir.
 (860) 486-4568
E-Mail Address
The Puppet Arts Program at the University of Connecticut offers BFA, MA and MFA degrees in the Art of Puppetry.

Florida

Puppetry Arts Center of the Palm Beaches 1200 S. Congress Avenue
Door #36
West Palm Beach, FL 33406
Mail: PO Box 19124
West Palm Beach, FL 33416		 Jo Janeen Timmis, Executive Dir.
(561) 967-3231
Lesli Lopez, Executive Assistant
 E-Mail Address
Performances year round by resident troupes and guest artists - Saturdays at 11 am and 2 pm Weekdays vary - reservations required - Pineapple Players Youth Puppet Theatre - middle and high schoolers training and performance; Dreammaker Puppeteers - volunteer puppeteer training and performance; Puppet Displays; Store. We still are looking for performers that are visiting in southeast Florida. - We cannot pay a lot but if they are here we are interested.

Georgia

Center for Puppetry Arts 1404 Spring Street NW at 18th
Atlanta, GA 30309-2820		 Vincent Anthony - Executive Director
(404) 873-3089
 Tickets: (404) 873-3391
E-Mail Address
The Center for Puppetry Arts recently celebrated its 25th anniversary! The Center is the nation's largest organization dedicated to puppetry and focuses on three areas - museum, education and performance. The interactive museum exhibit, PUPPETS: The Power of Wonder, features more than 350 ancient and contemporary puppets from around the globe. Special exhibits include Puppetry in Focus: Treasures from our Global Collection, Posters International: A Puppet Perspective, 1996 Revisited: Puppets of Olympic Proportions, and Kings of Broadway: Mufasa and Scar Unveiled. The Center educates the public through Distance Learning, Create-A-Puppet Workshops, outreach programs and the Adult Education Series. The Center presents close to 800 performances annually for families and adults by the Center company and visiting artists.
 
UNIMA - USA, Inc. 1404 Spring Street, NW
Atlanta, GA 30309-2820		 Contact:
Vincent Anthony - General Secretary
Phone: (404) 873-3089 ext.110
Fax: (404) 873-9907		 E-Mail Address
UNIMA-USA, the American Center of the Union Internationale de la Marionnette, is a service organization whose mission is to link puppeteers nationally and internationally; publish information on and for the field; offer support and technical assistance for pro -fessional puppeteers through seminars, conferences, and symposia; stimulate the general public's interest in the art of puppetry; and promote the visibility of American puppeteers all over the world. Membership office open Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., eastern. Please visit website for more information.

Illinois

Opera in Focus Park Central Banquet Facility
3000 West Central Road
Rolling Meadows, IL 60008
 Founded by - William B. Fosser
 Information & Reservations
(847) 818-3220 - Ext. 116
E-Mail Address
To the best of our knowledge, we are the only continuously operating ROD PUPPET OPERA company in the world. We perform on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays at 1:30 pm. Performances are generally 60 to 80 minutes long and usually consist of three or four scenes, arias or songs. A demonstration of how the rod puppets "work" and a backstage tour follow each performance. Groups of 30 or more may reserve a performance at a day and time of their choosing. PRICES: ADULTS $12.00 SENIORS (Over 60) $11.00 and CHILDREN (Under 12) $7.00 The theater is air conditioned and is fully handicapped accessible. Parking is free and "bus-friendly. A banquet hall with a capacity of 128 is located in the facility and can be serviced by a Park District approved caterer of your choosing.
 
Redmoon Theater

1463 W. Hubbard
Chicago, IL 60622

mailing address:
1438 W. Kinzie
Chicago, IL 60622

Artistic Director: Jim Lasko
Managing Director: Michaela Murphy
312-850-8440
E-Mail Address
A quaint old world style 50 seat theatre in downtown Indianapolis, located in a 100 yr. old warehouse building. Shows are scheduled from October thru April, including two weeks of puppet camp in June. Seasonal shows, The Peewinkle Series and Fairytale Series are presented by MMHP Puppet Productions, Inc.

Indiana

The Melchior Marionette Theatre Westside of S. Van Buren Street
Nashville, IN
Mail: 3608 Woodland Stream Ct.
Greenwood, IN 46143		 Peggy Melchior
1-800-849-4853
 E-Mail Address
22nd Anniversary Season - 2005. A 50 seat outdoor theatre, nestled between shops in the downtown of the tourist town Nashville, Indiana. Open on Saturdays (shows at 1 & 3pm) in June, July, September and every weekend in October. "Comedy Cabaret on Strings" ( June, July, September) and "The Slightly Haunted Puppet Theatre" (October) by Melchior Marionettes. Closed in August.
 
Mousetrap Puppet Theater 225 N. Harrison St.
Shipshewana, IN 46565 		Artistic Director:
Guy Thompson
E-Mail Address
Featuring marionette variety shows. Shows held year-round. Check website or call for current show and schedule.
 
Peewinkle's Puppet Studio 25 E. Henry Street
Downtown Indianapolis
Mail: 5271 Carrollton Ave
Indianapolis, IN 46220		 Debbie Stutzman - Box Office
(317) 283-7144
Peggy Melchior
1-800-849-4853
 E-Mail Address
A quaint old world style 50 seat theatre in downtown Indianapolis, located in a 100 yr. old warehouse building. Shows are scheduled from October thru April, including two weeks of puppet camp in June. Seasonal shows, The Peewinkle Series and Fairytale Series are presented by MMHP Puppet Productions, Inc.

Iowa

Bil Baird Collection Charles H. MacNider Art Museum
303 Second Street SE
Mason City, IA 50401		 Edith Blanchard - Director
(641) 421-3666
Mara Linskey
Registrar/Associate Curator		 E-Mail Address
The largest selection of Bil Baird Puppets are on display at all times, including the puppets from The Sound of Music. Two to three puppet performance opportunities occur throughout the year in our 200 seat auditorium. New to the Baird Galleries is an interactive puppet theater for hands-on puppet shows.
 
Owl Glass Puppetry Center

319 N. Calhoun
P.O. Box 330
West Liberty, IA 52776

 Monica Leo
Puppeteer/Managing Director
(319) 627-2487
Teri Jean Breitbach
Puppeteer/Artistic Director		 1-877-978-7738
E-Mail Address
Owl Glass Puppetry Center presents an annual season of 6 productions. These include 2 productions by the in-house troupe, Eulenspiegel Puppets, 2 or 3 guests from all over the world, and one adult evening - Puppets and Pastries Dessert Theatre. The season also includes one community puppet theatre production. Owl Glass sponsors the annual West Liberty Children's Festival and offers workshops for adults and children, summer puppet camp, and open studio hours during which locals are encouraged to help build puppets for community events.
 
The Edgar Wibble Puppet Theatre

Lindale Mall-Under Younkers
4444 First Avenue NE Suite 474
Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52402

  319-294-7082
E-Mail Address
A family owned and operated 49 seat puppet theater and store since April 2007. It is dedicated to supplying quality entertainment for families.

Maryland

The Garden Puppet Theatre

Kent County Visitor Center
122 N. Cross St,
Chestertown, Maryland 21620

Patsy Ann Hornaday 410-778-5841
E-Mail Address
A small mini-museum of changing puppet exhibits promoting the annual Town Beautification Program fund raising tours. Museum exhibits change monthly and are listed on the website.
 
The Puppet Co. Playhouse Glen Echo Park
7300 MacArthur Boulevard
 Christopher Piper
E-Mail Address		 Box Office: (301) 320-6668
Washington, D.C. Office
(202) 234-6666
The Puppet Co., in its 21st year, creates puppet theatre, especially for children, as an art form synthesizing the visual and performing arts. Hand puppets, rod puppets, body puppets, marionettes and shadow puppets are used in the fully staged productions of the stories, traditional and original, which comprise our ever-growing repertory. Our new theater and resource center at Glen Echo Park had its Grand Opening on May 1, 2004, and is believed to be the first theater in this country, designed and built from the ground up specifically for puppet theater. It seats 250 people.

Massachusetts

The Puppet Showplace Theatre 32 Station Street
Brookline, MA 02445		 Kris Higgins - Executive Director
Kathleen Conroy Mukwashi - Artistic Director
Operations Manager - Hollie Fleming
Paul Vincent Davis - Artist in Residence
 E-Mail Address or
E-Mail Address
September-June Tot shows Wednesday/Thursday at 10:30 AM and Family Shows Saturday/Sunday at 1 & 3 PM; Summer shows Wednesday/Thursday at 10:30 AM & 1 PM. Adult shows at least one run a month. Touring companies, Birthday Parties, Special Events, Workshops and classes for families and adults.

Michigan

Detroit Institute of Arts
Paul McPharlin Collection		 5200 Woodward Ave
Detroit, MI 48202		 Lawrence Baranski - Curator
(313) 833-4686
E-Mail Address		  
The Detroit Institute of Arts is undergoing a renovation project that will limit the exhibition of the McPharlin Puppet Collection. Tours of the puppet storage area can be arranged through a letter of request to the curator. A 116 page color catalog of the collection published in 2000 and titled Strings Hands Shadows: A Modern Puppet History is available for $19.95 on the DIA website www.dia.org.
 
PuppetART/Detroit Puppet Theater 25 East Grand River
Detroit, MI 48226		 Igor Gozman - Artistic Director (313) 961-7777
E-Mail Address
PuppetART is a Theater, a Studio, and a Museum. Each visit to PuppetART provides an audience with a performance of high artistic quality followed by a puppet-making workshop. Both events are tied together by an educational and explorative tour through the Museum. PuppetART Theater has an active repertoire of nine shows, staged monthly for general public every Saturday, September through May. Programs for groups are offered year around. PuppetART Studio provides the opportunity for art education for children, caregivers, and professionals. The mainstream of PuppetART Studio activities is developing and offering hands-on workshops to groups of schoolchildren. Students K-12 learn how to make puppets and recognize, understand and use folk art elements of different cultures. Other workshops on the puppetry art are designed for various levels of interest, including one for teachers especially designed to enhance the curriculum and support an "arts-integrated" education. PuppetART Museum is a source of information on puppetry and how it reflects on history and diverse cultural traditions. The Museum also organizes exhibits to complement repertoire performances. The PuppetART Museum published a book in 2002, entitled "A History of Puppetry in Detroit," by Gina Granger and Nancy Henk. The book is dedicated to Detroit's tri-centennial and highlights its important role in the history of professional American puppetry.

Minnesota

In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre 1500 East Lake Street
Minneapolis, MN 55407		 Kathee Foran, Executive Director
(612) 721-2535		 E-Mail Address
In the Heart of the Beast produces a season of original, company-generated plays for both families and adults. We teach puppetry and pageantry to students and teachers, teenagers and youth, and community members in our neighborhood and throughout Minnesota. We can seat up to 300.
 
Open Eye Figure Theatre 506 E. 24th St.
Minneapolis, MN 55404 		  Studio: 612-823-5162
Box Office: 612-874-6338
E-Mail Address
Founded in 2000 by Michael Sommers and Susan Haas. Open Eye Figure Theatre creates grand theatrical events manifested on an intimate scale, combining artistic forms to make work that is both whimsical and profound.

Missouri

Kramer Marionette Theatre 4143 Laclede Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63108		 Contact: Bob Kramer, Dug Feltch
(314) 531-3313		 E-Mail Address
Performances year-round by resident troupe and guest artists: Monday-Saturday: 10 am demo, 11:15 show, 1 pm demo, 2:15 show by reservation. Sunday at 1 and 2:15. Exhibit, Store, Workshops.
 
Paul Mesner Puppets 1006 E. Linwood Blvd.
Kansas City, MO 64109		 Paul Mesner - Artistic Director and Founder
(816) 756-3500
Diane Barker - Executive Director
 E-Mail Address
Five productions a year. We perform at Unity on the Plaza at 47th and Jefferson in Kansas City, MO. The theater will accommodate 320 people. We tour, locally and nationally. Puppet making workshops on an ongoing basis at our studio.
 
Puppetry Arts Institute 11025 E. Winner Rd.
Independence, MO 64052		 Diane Houk - Director (816) 833-9777
E-Mail Address
Hazelle Rollins Puppet Museum; Special Exhibits; Puppet Shows; Workshops; Birthday parties; Puppet Research Library; Puppet Repair, Restringing & Appraisal. Hours: Tuesday - Saturday. 10 - 5. Museum Admission: Adults $3, children $1.50. Monthly puppet shows and drop-in or reserved group workshops $5.00 each.

New Jersey

Brownstone Puppettheatre and Museum Village Greene, Historic Smithville
615 E. Moss Mill Rd.
Smithcille, N.J. 08205		 Nancy Brownstone - Contact
(609) 652-5750		 E-Mail Address
Weekend shows year round. Resident company presents shows for family audiences with emphasis on comedy and music. Occasional guest artists. Museum houses a collection of over 100 puppets, posters and photographs.
 
The Penny Pretzel Playhouse The Baird Community Center
5 Mead Street
South Orange, NJ 07079		 Steven Hollow Ticket info: (973) 378-7754
Tickets: $8.00 per person
E-Mail Address
Our family programs are aimed at the 4 to 9 year olds with parents in attendance. This is a great small space, located only 27 minutes from midtown New York by train. Seating for 70, with a lot of possibilities. The Village of South Orange Parks Department is committed to improving the space, and to making puppetry a permanent part of its growth. Five performance slots for family theater and one evening slot for more adult fair make up the annual season. Fees are negotiable. Ideas Questions and Suggestions are welcome. If you would like to be considered for a performance slot please contact Steven Hollow, 973-762-3632 between 9:30am and 7:30pm.

New York

Museum of Television & Radio

25 West 52nd Street
(between 5th & 6th Ave.)
Ny, NY 10019

   (212) 621-6600
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday 12:00 to 6:00 Thursday 12-8. Study center has viewing facility. Can find videos relating to television puppetry.
 
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

40 Lincoln Center Plaza
Ny, NY 10023

   (212) 870-1641
Theatre on Film & Tape Archive, Billy Rose Theatre Collection. Viewing by appointment only. The collection includes all performances pre-sented at Jim Henson Foundation International Festival of PuppetTheatre.
 
The Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre
in Central Park

Central Park East Drive at 80th St.

mailing address:
830 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10065-2001

  (212) 360-1399
Email Address
Run by the NY Parks system. Has a long record of presenting shows to the public.
 
Puppetworks

The Puppetworks, Inc.
338 Sixth Avenue
Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY 11215

 Nicolas Coppola - Artisitc Director
(718) 965-3391
E-Mail Address
Terry Alan Smith - General Manager
 E-Mail Address
Weekend Public Performances: 12:30 & 2:30 Weekday Groups: 10:15, 11:30, 12:45 - Repertory 2006-2007: The Reluctant Dragon (September-December 23, 2006); Alice in Wonderland (January 3 - April 1, 2007); The Jungle Book (April 14 - August 19, 2007); also Moose Crossing (Macy's Herald Square, for 30th Holiday season). Souveniers, Books, Puppets on sale in Lobby. Seats 100.
 
HERE Arts Center; Dream Music Puppetry Program 145 6th Avenue
Ny, NY 10013		 Barbara Busackino - Producer
(212) 647-0202 Ext. 307
E-Mail Address
Basil Twist - Director
E-Mail Address		  
 
Spaghetti Dinners - PS122

150 First Avenue
Ny, NY 10009

Trudi Cohen
(917) 319-8104
E-Mail Address

  
Monthly community events on Tuesday evenings including vegetarian spaghetti, new work by Great Small Works and guest artists, and live music.
 
Teatro SEA @ Los Kabayitos Puppet & Children's Theatre

107 Suffolk Street, 2nd Floor
Ny, NY 10002

Manuel A. Moran - Exec. & Artisitc Dir.
(212) 529-1545
Richard Marino - Managing Director
Jose Lopez - Puppet Master

 Box Office: (212) 260-4080 Ext. 14
E-Mail Address
TEATRO SEA at Los Kabayitos Puppet and Children's Theatre at the Clemente Soto VÈlez Cultural and Educational Center on Manhattan's Lower East Side, is New York's Only Latino Children's Theatre, and possibly the Only Latino Children's Theatre in the United States. Society of the Educational Arts, Inc. (SEA) offers a year-round season of professional Puppet and Children's Theatre, as well as art workshops. SEA's repertory of 14 shows, are performed in Spanish, English and bilingual. SEAson runs from September to June.
 
Brooklyn Music School Playhouse

325 West End Ave., Suite 12B
Ny, NY 10023
We are the resident children's theatre at the YWCA of Brooklyn, NY 11217

Sandra Robbins, Artistic Director
(212) 724-0677
Elaine Brand - Administrator

 E-Mail Address
 
Puppetry in Practice

Brooklyn College
2900 Bedford Avenue 1104 James Hall
Brooklyn, NY 11210

Tova Ackerman - Director
(718) 951-4240
(718) 854-0507

 E-Mail Address
Our main site is still at Brooklyn College and open to teachers and the community but this summer we opened the Puppetry in Practice Museum, an outreach center in the Marine Park section of Brooklyn. We have been hosting parent workshops to supplement our school programs and meetings with other puppeteers and performing artists.
 
Goat on a Boat Puppet Theatre

P.O. Box 327
Sag Harbor, NY 11963

Liz Joyce - Artistic Director
(631) 725-4193

 E-Mail Addresss
Goat on a Boat Puppet Theatre (founded 2001) is a community puppet theatre committed to introducing young children and their families to a life-long love of theatre and the creative arts. Winter/spring season runs November-March and includes in-house performances, guest performers (Saturdays at 11 and 3) puppet playgroups (for children 3 years and under) and after-school workshops. Summer season runs June-August and includes Tot Camp, puppet playgroups, family workshops and performances Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 11:00. The theater seats 70.
 
Open Hand Theater

518 Prospect Ave.
Syracuse, NY 13208

Geoffrey Navia - Artistic Director
(315) 476-0466
Kathy Ferro - Exec. Assistant

 E-Mail Address
A World of Puppet’ performance series for families on the first two Saturdays of the months October-April featuring great puppetry performances from across the country. Touring mask and puppet performances, arts-in-education programs and workshops, collaborations with other arts organizations and mask and puppet museum.

Oregon/Washington

Tears of Joy Theatre P.O. Box 1029
Vancouver, WA 98666		 Janet Bradley - Managing Director
(360) 695-3050
E-Mail Address
Nancy Aldrich - Artistic Director
(503) 284-7562		  
FAMILY SERIES (and school programs) in Winningstad Theatre at Portland Center for the Performing Arts, Portland, OREGON, seating 280. 100 performances. Series runs November - March (largely our own programs). Lobby exhibits mounted for each production. SHOWCASE PERFORMANCES for adults November-March (includes guest performers). TOURING year around..

Pennsylvania

Hole in the Wall Puppet 126 N. Water Street
Lancaster, PA 17603 		Robert Brock - Artistic Director
Mary Lou Broucht - Business Manager 		(717) 394-8398
E-Mail Address
The Hole in the Wall is a 60-seat Victorian style theatre in downtown Lancaster founded in 1990 by Robert Brock. Marionette performances of classic stories and fairy tales are presented on weekends for the public and by arrangement for groups during the week.
 
Mock Turtle Marionette Theater at the Ice House 421 Second Ave.
Bethlehem, PA 18018		 Doug Roysdon - Artistic Director (610) 867-8208
E-Mail Address
Now in our eighth season of family performances at our city-based theater in Bethlehem, We seat 100 for upstairs shows or the downstairs theater which seats 250.
 
Mum Puppettheatre 115 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106 		Robert Smythe - Artistic Director E-Mail Address
Our theatre season runs from September to May. Our touring season runs year round. Our education and teaching activities follow school and summer program schedules. We run classes at the theatre throughout the season.
 
Pittsburgh Children's Museum 10 Children's Way
Pittsburgh, PA 15212
  

412-322-5058
E-Mail Address
It offers interactive experiences with puppets, outreach programs and field trips.
 
Spiral Q Puppet Theatre 3114 Spring Garden Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104		   (215) 222-6979
E-Mail Address
Spiral Q Puppet Theater seeks to mobilize communities and illuminate the victories, frustrations and possibilities of living in the neighborhoods of Philadelphia and similar urban settings through the construction of full-scale giant puppet parades, toy theater and neighborhood pageantry.

Rhode Island

Perishable Theatre
Blood From a Turnip		 95 Empire Street
Providence, RI 02903		 Vanessa Gilbert
(401) 331-2695 Ext. 306		 E-Mail Address
Blood from a Turnip, Rhode Island's only Late Night Puppet Salon, was founded on the belief that puppet, toy and object theatre is an invaluable artistic medium. This bi-monthly invitational brings to Providence emerging puppeteers from New England and New York.

South Carolina

Columbia Marionette Theatre 401 Laurel Street
Columbia, SC 29201		 John Scollon - Executive Director (803) 252-7366
E-Mail Address
Celebrating 16 years as South Carolina's premiere children's theatre, the Columbia Marionette Theatre offers birthday parties, field trips, traveling shows, artists-in-residence programs, home school programs and even puppet shows for adults!

Virginia

Green Parrot Puppet Theatre Classika Theatre's Green Parrot Theatre
4041 S. 28th Street
Arlington, VA 22206		 Emily Wilson-Tobin - Public Relations & Marketing (703) 824-6200
E-Mail Address
Classika Theatre is a professional theatre based on the renowned Russian tradition which features productions for both adults and children. The Green Parrot Puppet Theatre usually produces 2 puppet shows a year.

Vermont

Sandglass Theatre
Sandglass Center for Puppetry and Research 		P.O. Box 970
17 Kimball Hill
Putney, VT 05346		 Eric Bass & Ines Zeller-Bass - Co-Artistic Directors
Leslie Turpin - Managing Director
Kirk Murphy - Administrator
 (802) 387-4051
E-Mail Address
Fall and Spring Season of our own and some guest artist work.
 
Bread and Puppet Theatre 153 Heights Rd. (Route 122)
Glover, VT 05839		 Linda Elbow, Touring Manager (802) 525-1271
E-Mail Address
Apprenticeship Program end of June thru July; Summer performances at our farm in Glover, Vermont, July-August.
 
Bread and Puppet Museum 153 Heights Rd. (Route 122)
Glover, VT 05839		 Elka Schumann - Museum Director (802) 525-6972
E-Mail Address
Open daily, 10am-6pm, May - October. A Museum housing a giant collection of puppets, masks, paintings and graphics in a century old barn.

Washington

Northwest Puppet Center
Carter Family Marionettes		 9123 - 15th Avenue NE
Seattle, WA 98115-3111		 Dmitri Carter
(206) 523-2579		 E-Mail Address
Northwest Puppet Center features a season of public performances, weekday school series, museum exhibits, archive/library, touring performances and educational programs. In recent years the Carter Family Marionettes have also begun staging full scale marionette operas and was recently the cover story in the national magazine, Early Music America. In December of 2003, Seattle Post-Intelligencer's "Best of 2003 - Family", Northwest Puppet Center was listed as #1 children's attraction. "Pupi per tutti!" (Puppets for all!)

 
 
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