For a time, the "p" word was one to be avoided. Call it "object theatre," perhaps. Just not puppets, lest quick judgments be made. But in 1981, at the birth of Handspring Puppet Company, founders ...

Grayson DeJesus rides Topthorn (left) and Michael Wyatt Cox rides Joey in a battle scene in "War Horse." (Photo courtesy of Brinkhoff/Moegenburg) Syracuse -- "War Horse" is many things _ a drama with ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Director Tom Morris uses the phrase "happy accident" to describe the success of his Tony-award-winning play "War Horse," whose central character was a puppet. "At the time, it ...

What do a national state of emergency, a hyena and a twig have in common with “War Horse,” the astounding play by Nick Stafford and the Handspring Puppet Company set during World War I? A talk with ...

Basil Jones knows exactly what the puppeteers in “War Horse” are feeling when the curtain rises on opening night. Jones, along with Adrian Kohler, founded Handspring Puppet Co., which designed, ...

In a rehearsal room deep beneath Lincoln Center, a horse is dying. Over and over. Each time it's an agonizing collapse, starting with the hind legs buckling and thrashing, the torso then collapsing ...

The Lion King features co-puppet design by Julie Taymor and Michael Curry. There are more than 232 puppets in the show, including rod puppets, shadow puppets and full-sized puppets. The Lion King ...

'War Horse' was a big hit in London, and it will be a big hit at New York's Lincoln Center Theater. It can't fail, and it shouldn't. Never again will you see such visually poetic, technically ...