Performance culminates 10-day Adams Theater residency ADAMS, MA—On February 21, eight puppeteers and object performers will present work they’ve spent time developing at the Adams Theater. The inaugural Curious Festival of Unfinished Works, created by New England Puppet Arts in collaboration with the Adams Theater, has artists in residency working with a crack…
Herb Alpert Award-winner Robin Frohardt — whose immersive, multimedia experience The Plastic Bag Store captivated audiences at MASS MoCA in 2024 — returns to the museum for a preview of Shopping Center of the Universe, a theatrical work of speculative nonfiction. This new work in development, grounded in reality yet deeply reflective, offers…
On December 12, 5pm and 6:30pm Brattleboro’s Festival of Miniatures presents Sandglass Theater’s Nativity Shadow Play at the Centre Congregational Church Parlor, 193 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT 05301 The Nativity is the iconic Christmas story presented as Shadow Theater with delicacy, heart and humor by Sandglass Theater. Christmas was celebrated…
“Feral,” which ends the Adams Theater’s Puppetry Series this season, comes to the Adams Theater on October 18 at 7:30pm. It’s a tale of intuition and learned behavior told in puppetry by Sandglass Theater, which has shared whimsical, thought-provoking, and sometimes challenging work across the world for decades. Tickets are…
November 13—November 15: 3-Day Puppetry WorkshopPS21 Black Box Theater  This November, PS21 is thrilled to bring together two acclaimed theater companies, Concrete Temple Theater (New York) and Black Hole Theater (Australia), for an intensive three-day puppetry workshop. In this workshop, you’ll have the chance to delve into a work of art, poetry, music, or text and…
Even Cowboys Get the Blues Conceived and Performed by Ankita Sharma, with Danny Archibald and 3issa September 18-20 at 7:30pm | The Barn at Lee 345 Spring St, Lee, MA It’s high noon in the Wild West and a young cowboy is galloping through the American expanse. The wind at his back, he heads for a…
ADAMS, MA—The Adams Theater will present NYC based Japanese theater maker, performer, animator, and visual artist Maiko Kikuchi’s “Note From a Sheep I Met at the Dawn,” on September 27 at 7:30 p.m. It’s part puppetry work, part performance art, all focused on the boundaries between dreams and reality, and finding a way to…
Artist and theater maker David Lane will bring a workshop performance of his puppetry adaptation of Émile Zola’s novel “The Belly of Paris,” an epic tale of the working class in 19th-century Paris, to The Adams Theater (27 Park Street, Adams, MA) on September 6 at 7:30 pm. Written in 1873, “The Belly…
