OSAKA, Japan (Reuters) - Stuck at home for weeks while Japan was under a state of emergency due to the coronavirus, renowned Japanese Bunraku puppet master Kanjuro Kiritake, all his performances ...

Born in Osaka some 300 years ago, Japanese puppet theater—Bunraku—is a stunning yet refined spectacle. This program presents the story of Bunraku through two of its greatest masters, puppeteer Tamao ...

For the first time in about 30 years, a Japanese theater that uses human-sized puppets is performing across the country. For the first time in 30 years, a treasure of Japan has been touring the United ...

“Blue Eye Samurai” is set to collect a trio of juried awards for achievement in animation–for character design, production design and storyboard–while vying for two competitive awards including ...

Honolulu Theatre for Youth presents the world premiere of Winnie-the-Pooh and Bunraku Too, adapted from A. A. Milne's beloved stories and incorporating traditional Japanese Bunraku puppetry. The ...

Blair Thomas is a lifelong puppeteer and founder and artistic director of the International Puppet Theater Festival. In 2009, Thomas was ordinated as a dharma teacher by the Maitreya Buddhist Seminary ...

In Theodora Skipitares’s productions (where actors with Bunraku puppets make the larger-than-life Greek myths surprisingly human), you can always expect moments of poignancy and beauty. In this ...

A professional puppet artist from Heart of the Beast theater in Minneapolis is spending a month in New London as part of the town's first Small Stages Artist in Residency program. During this time, he ...