Puppeteers from North Carolina to Maine will gather at the Puppet Homecoming in Rhinebeck, New York from September 7 to 9. I’m looking forward to shows by Deborah Costine and Nappy’s Puppets, and more. See Puppet Homecoming if you’d like to know more.

I’ll lead a workshop on Chinese hand puppet techniques on Sunday morning, September 9th. Monkey King (photo above) will be there, along with clown, lady, and scholar puppets. In the workshop, I’ll show the basic movements and let people try them out. That’s why I have lots of canvas bits and paper clay heads in my studio. I’m making puppets for people to learn with, that aren’t used in my shows.

Please join me for the February show of “Puppets at Arlington Center for the Arts”.  I’ll perform two short shows especially for children ages 3 and up.

In “Cow and Mouse’s Picnic”, two friends enjoy lunch together, but can’t stand to share dessert.
“Mathilda’s Bath” is an adaptation of the Mrs. Piggle Wiggle story about the girl who doesn’t like to take baths — “The Radish Cure”.  It was my favorite Mrs. Piggle Wiggle story growing up.
As always, please stay after the show to talk, play with puppets, and have some coffee or tea.

“Cow and Mouse’s Picnic” and “Mathilda’s Bath”
Saturday, February 4, 2 pm
Arlington Center for the Arts theater
(acarts.org/directions.php)
Tickets $5, at the door, or e-mail [email protected]

Our Arlington Center for the Arts puppet series continues on January 7th at 2 pm with “Trolls in the Kitchen”, a Swedish tale. When the helpful tomte in Trinka’s kitchen move out, raucous trolls move in. Please join us for the show, and stay for coffee and puppet-play afterwards. Tickets $5 at the door or by e-mailing me at [email protected].

The porridge is too hot, so the bears go for a walk. Plucky Goldilocks walks right into their house, forgetting her manners altogether.

Soon we’ll be able to dig in the warm earth and see beautiful flowers. (I believe it, really!) My puppets are starting early. Please join us for “Badger Meets the Fairies” on Saturday, March 12th at 2 pm at:

Please come welcome the Year of the Rabbit at Arlington Center for the Arts on Saturday, February 12th. I will perform “Monkey Wreaks Havoc in Heaven”, an episode of the Chinese epic Journey to the West. The magical monkey flies to the Heavens and takes a job in the Jade Emperor’s peach garden. But when the monkey is snubbed by other gods and goddesses, he sneaks into a banquet hall and eats the preparation for the New Year’s celebration. And that’s just the beginning of the trouble.

I worked on “The Trolls and the Tree” in the hottest part of this summer. The show opened August 13th at the West End Branch Library in Boston. For three weeks before that, I kept the stage up in my living room because my upstairs studio was too hot. I got more work done, too, because the stage was always right there, begging for attention.