2011年1月5日 · The Bread and Puppet Theater was founded in 1963 by Peter Schumann on New York City’s Lower East Side. Besides rod-puppet and hand puppet shows for children, the concerns of the first productions were rents, rats, police, and other problems of the neighborhood.

2025年2月2日 · The Bread and Puppet Theater would embark on a remarkable 50 year journey, leaving an indelible stamp on the world of theater and the American cultural landscape. From the humble loft on Delancey Street, the Theater took to the streets and beyond.

The Bread and Puppet Theater was founded in 1963 by Peter Schumann on New York City’s Lower East Side. Besides rod-puppet and hand puppet shows for children, the concerns of the first productions were rents, rats, police, and other problems of the neighborhood.

Bread & Puppet Theater is excited to announce our latest tour traveling from Vermont down the Eastern Seaboard. As always, the show will include puppets large and small, music, up-to-the-minute politics, and spectacles not to be missed.

Bread & Puppet playlist by Jerome Lipani; Exhibition at Ice on Fire, Montpelier VT Feb 2, 2025

The Bread and Puppet Museum is a massive accumulation of the puppets, masks, paintings and graphics of The Bread and Puppet Theater, housed in a 150-year-old barn in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, 25 miles south of the Canadian border. It is one of the largest collections of some of the biggest puppets and masks in the world.

Bread & Puppet playlist by Jerome Lipani; Exhibition at Ice on Fire, Montpelier VT Feb 2, 2025

Come spend 8 days in rural Vermont, immersed in the daily hands-on work of building, creating, recreating, and performing hand puppet, marionette and small scale puppet shows. While Bread and Puppet is best known for its hard hitting political shows and large scale pageantry, the theater also has a long tradition of making shows for young kids ...

2025年1月22日 · As usual, the show will draw on traditional circus tropes as well as beloved Bread & Puppet characters and iconography to draw attention to the urgent issues of the day. Stilt dancers, paper maché beasts of all sizes and a riotous brass band make a raucous, colorful spectacle of protest and celebration.

2023年11月24日 · The Bread & Puppet Theater returns to New York City with two urgently-needed political puppet shows. Ever focused on this exact moment, these new shows bring paper-maché politics, cardboard spectacle, and our sourdough rye bread to circus-goers and mass-attendees this December.