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"The downtown mainstay La MaMa E.T.C. (Experimental Theater Club), winner of the 2018 Regional Theater Tony Award, will present a monthlong festival of puppet performances by an international roster of artists. This isn’t a children’s theater event, though: The creators, mainly women, will be presenting shows that grapple with immigration, Black Lives Matter, disability and other weighty topics."
-Steven McElroy. Full article HERE
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"Innovation goes hand in glove with theater at this biannual festival of new puppetry for grown-ups."
Full read HERE
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| Photo courtesy of Patrick Argirakis, BLIND |
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"This year's installment of its biannual festival will include New York and world premieres of works by Chinese, French, Japanese, and African-American artists."
Full article HERE
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La MaMa's Annual Puppet Festival Returns to New York
"For four weeks (November 1 - 25, 2018), La MaMa's Puppet Series presents work from artists around the world including Germany, Brazil, Netherlands, Japan, Colombia, China, Belgium, and the USA."
Full article HERE
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Next on the horizon is the 2018 edition of the biannual La MaMa Puppet Festival — touted as their biggest yet — running Nov. 1-25. The director and curator of the festival since the beginning has been Denise Greber, a Downtown actress who has been with La MaMa since 1999. “I started working with Ellen [Stewart] on a puppet series in 2004,”Greber noted. “Ellen always loved puppetry. It’s always been at least 20 percent of the programming at La MaMa. It was a small series at first. But it’s continued to grow.” Full Article HERE
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