The Chicago International Puppet Theatre Festival is underway. One of the hottest tickets this year was Manual Cinema’s “The ...

Crowds are flocking to an annual festival for performances of “A Doll’s House,” a “Macbeth”-inspired witch tale and more ...

Take a rare look inside Sideshow Collectibles’ secret campus from the spaceship digital studio to the BTS operations of each creative department ...

The production, part of the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival, is improvised, but many of the discussions between ...

In recent decades, some of the Chicago Police Department’s most notorious scandals were perpetrated by officers assigned to the same team or unit, including Jerome Finnigan of the special operations ...

The orangutan, the hyena and the Bengal tiger took millions of years of evolution to reach their modern forms. Their zoological counterparts that take the stage in Life of Pi came to life after about ...

Puppets and props from Muppets creator Jim Henson's extensive career will go up for auction this fall, including pieces from children’s shows such as “Fraggle Rock” and “The Dark Crystal: Age of ...

Move over summer stripes, there’s a new It pattern for the season: plaid. The fall runways predicted it last February, and with the current spring/summer 2026 shows happening now (and the street style ...

Stories old and stories new, rooted in culture, religion, folklore and social awareness were highlighted when the traditional art of puppetry took centrestage at the SAARC Puppetry Fest 2025, ...