Spring 2011 Volume 62, No. 3

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

COVER STORY

2 War Horse, reviewed by Steve Abrams

ARTICLES

5 Atlanta Festival Update, by Paul Mesner, Mike Horner and Spencer Lott

6 The Tall Tales of Paul Bunyan, reviewed by Joyce Reilly

7 Paul Bunyan - The Second Time Around, by Lois Corwin

8 A Grand Moment for Puppetry in Paraguay, by Juanito Carter

19 Open Eye Figure Theatre - Persistence of Vision, by Paul Eide

24 Puppetry and Postdramatic Performance - An International Conference on Performing Objects in the 21st Century, by Trudi Cohen;  Photographs by Mark Dannenhauer

26 Avenue Q and Mixed Blood Theatre - Together At Last, by Paul Eide

28 Point of View - Live Voices vs. Recorded Voices, viewpoints by Penny Jones, Bob Brown, Michael Richardson

32 National Day of Puppetry:  New York City, Chicago

COLUMNS

10 A Bob’s Eye View:  Up Close with the Cashore Marionettes, by Bob Nathanson

11 At Large:  Flexitoon at Comic Con;  Festival Traffle, WP Puppet Power 2013 Conference–Call for Proposals; compiled by Paul Eide

13 Scene Between:  Puppetry in Chicago, by Monica Leo

14 Scene West:  Survey of activities on the West Coast, by Beth Fernandez

15 Poor Alan’s Almanack:   Joe Ayers, by Alan Cook

WORKSHOP

16 Building a Star in 400 Hours, Part 2, by Phillip Huber

VIDEO

23 Up on Frogtown Mountain, Episode 1-Recycling, reviewed by Paul Eide

IN MEMORIAM

30 Peter Brizzi • Kathy Piper • Esther Cheatle

PLAYBOARD SPRING 2011

33-36 President’s Message, by Anna Vargas;  Membership Numbers;  The Guild Connection, by Kurt Hunter;  Reum with a View, by M’El Reum;  Eureka!! by Nancy Sander.

COVER

War Horse - at Lincoln Center in NYC

The story of a love between a boy and his horse during World War I,  based on the book by Michael Morpurgo

Photograph by Paul Kolnik