Under the eyes of a papier-mâché puppet representing God, a group of white-clothed performers sang protest songs to the tunes of a live brass band. Woodblock prints hung on lines strung between the ...

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 ...

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 & Puppet Theater is comeing to The Old Stone House in Park Slope, Brooklyn on Friday, September 10, 2021 at 6pm. The iconic theater troupe brings a brand new performance in the tradition of the ...

Bread and Puppet Theater has been a familiar presence at political demonstrations since the anti-war protests of the 1960s. Its giant puppets and... Bread And Puppet Marks 50 Years Of Paper Mache And ...

PORTLAND — Bread and Puppet Theater will present four performances of “Of The End of the World Never Minding Show” at Mayo Street Arts on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, April 24-26. Bread and Puppet ...

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 ...

Elka Schumann, co-founder of the Bread and Puppet Theater company, has died at the age of 85. Elka was born in the Soviet Union in 1935 and brought to the United States in 1941. She and her husband ...

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 ...

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.

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.

She and her husband ran a Vermont-based troupe that has taken on social and political issues in productions featuring enormous puppets. By Annabelle Williams Elka Schumann, who with her husband, Peter ...