Do you find yourself watching old Muppet Show episodes and thinking, “This ‘play the music’ and ‘light the lights’ stuff is all well and good, but I really wish they’d do more bawdy improv.” Then ...

“Puppet Up! -- Uncensored,” an adults-only improv show featuring puppets instead of people, comes from the Jim Henson Company -- but don’t expect Kermit the Frog singing “It Ain’t Easy Bein’ Blue.” ...

How do you like to tell a story? Do you write it down and read it to your mom? Do you like to act it out with your friends, complete with hand gestures and funny voices? Do you like to sing it? There ...

MAUREEN CAVANAUGH: This is KPBS Midday Edition. I am Maureen Cavanaugh. Puppet theater is usually for the kids but when it is not as with the hit Broadway show Avenue Q adult puppet theater can be a ...

We are all Gary Coleman. That child actor, who attained high pop-culture status when he played Arnold on Diff’rent Strokes more than 30 years ago, never quite made a successful transition to adulthood ...

The original notes for the script to “Avenue Q” were surely written on bar napkins, after several MFA students drunkenly mocked their childhood memories of “Sesame Street.” Those same creators must ...

Around the right-hand side of Salvage Vanguard Theater, there’s a door that vanishes into the corrugated metal siding of the building. It’s the door that opens into the world of creativity and ...

The Northwest Puppet Center’s Carter family puppeteers translated a 19th-century Venetian puppet script for this classic fairy tale. 1 and 3 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays through Dec. 21. $8.50 children, ...

Cameron Diaz may star in Brian Henson's adult puppet comedy The Happytime Murders. The Knight And Day actress has been offered the lead role in the film and is said to be enthusiastic about reading ...

Two master puppeteers will host a “puppet social” this evening to gauge the interest in starting a troupe in the summertime.