The day after the Tony Awards ceremony and Basil Jones and Adrian Kohler, creators of the puppetry that’s at the heart and spirit of Lincoln Center’s acclaimed “War Horse,” … ...

Puppets take center stage in the stunning new play, ... "it's viewed as a respectable adult art form, and shows like 'War Horse' are helping open the American public's eyes to that." ...

Michael Morpurgo is refreshingly frank about his initial reaction to having puppets — granted, gargantuan, galloping puppets — play the horses in the stage version of his novel “War Horse ...

For a time, the "p" word was one to be avoided. Call it "object theatre," perhaps. Just not puppets, lest quick judgments be made. But in 1981, at the birth of Handspring Puppet Company, founders ...

Handspring Puppet Company gallops into spotlight with 'War Horse' ... Those adventures began in the early ‘70s, when the pair met in art school in Cape Town. Kohler loved puppets.

Basil Jones knows exactly what the puppeteers in “War Horse” are feeling when the curtain rises on opening night. Jones, along with Adrian Kohler, founded Handspring Puppet Co., which designed ...

Unlike in Steven Spielberg’s world, where (mostly) a horse is a horse, the “Joey” in the stage production of War Horse is a very intricately hand-crafted puppet that takes three puppeteers ...

From another village, salvaged from a trash heap, came a sheaf of puppets illustrating China’s resistance against Japan in World War II. In 1993 Mr. Cui, then 47, suffered a devastating stroke.

NORTH ADAMS -- Artworks line the well-worn hallways leading to David Lane's airy studio loft in North Adams' Eclipse Mill. Beside vintage sewing machines and muted fabric remnants -- tweeds, twills, ...