Stage and set designer Bill Fosser worked on Hollywood hits like Home Alone, The Sting and Ordinary People. “He was indeed a genius,” recalls actor Tony Mockuss. “He had the eye.” But the apple of ...

It’s the damnedest thing: Justin Snyder, his long hair parted down the middle, his head thrown back as though communing with a higher power, the hood of his hoodie grazing the floor, his mouth working ...

The project started with one of those proverbial lightbulbs going off over someone’s head. “Three years ago, I was working on a painting that involved puppets, and I was listening to opera,” Erin ...

“My brother and I were always kind of strange children growing up,” says Justin Snyder, who collected puppets with his brother Shayne. The brothers also studied music early in school and developed a ...

There are no lions and tigers and bears at the Berkeley Opera's latest offering, a double-bill program of Maurice Ravel's "L'Enfant et les Sortileges" and Bela Bartok's "Bluebeard's Castle," opening ...

For those so inclined, there are few Seattle theater productions more anticipated than the Northwest Puppet Center’s annual baroque marionette opera. Yes, that’s right, puppet opera. And this year’s ...

A puppet opera artist rehearses at an art institute of the puppet opera in Ruicheng county, Shanxi province, August 6, 2014. [Photo/Xinhua] Ruicheng puppet opera, popular in Ruicheng county and other ...

Been feeling heartsick and helpless lately? Depressed because John-Boy turned out to be a big fat liar? Freaking because the major corporation to which you entrusted your online backup went out of ...

Music and engineering combine in BYU's School of Music to create a one-of-a-kind opera retelling of “Beauty and the Beast.” The opera, “Zémire et Azor,” is one of the oldest versions of 'Beauty and ...

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