EditorialRevelers at the Village Halloween Parade in New York on Oct. 31, 2021. The parade returns on Halloween Day with hundreds of puppeteers, dancers, artists and musicians marching in Greenwich Village. (Earl Wilson/The New York Times)
EditorialRevelers at the Village Halloween Parade in New York on Oct. 31, 2021. The parade returns on Halloween Day with hundreds of puppeteers, dancers, artists and musicians marching in Greenwich Village. (Earl Wilson/The New York Times)
EditorialLittle Amal and her puppeteers make their way through Terminal 4, at Kennedy International Airport on Wednesday, on Sept. 14, 2022, as they were welcomed by members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and its children’s choir. (Todd Heisler/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Actors Yamashita Kinsaku I and Hayakawa Hatsuse as puppeteers in the play "Diary Kept on a Journey by Sea to Izu" ("Funadama Izu Nikki"), performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1725. Torii Kiyomasu II; Japanese, 1706 (?)-1763 (?). Da...
EditorialPuppet in kimono being manipulated by two bunraku puppeteers in black robes. Woodblock ukiyo-e print by Utagawa Kunisada II, Tokyo, 1850s. From a series of illustrations of popular bunraku plays, this showing the Yaoya Oshichi.
EditorialColin Trudell, who plays Emmet, rehearses with the puppets and their puppeteers during a rehearsal for the new theater production “Jim Henson’s Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas,” in Long Island City, N.Y., Nov. 17, 2021. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)
EditorialPuppeteers operating the 12-foot-tall puppet Amal, a 9-year-old Syrian refugee on a journey to find her mother, in a performance of “The Walk” in Bray-Dunes, France, Oct. 17, 2021. (Elliott Verdier/The New York Times)
EditorialPuppeteers operating the 12-foot-tall puppet Amal, a 9-year-old Syrian refugee on a journey to find her mother, in a performance of “The Walk” in Bray-Dunes, France, Oct. 17, 2021. (Elliott Verdier/The New York Times)
EditorialPuppeteers animate the title character and Purple Panda during production of “Donkey Hodie,” a new half-hour PBS Kids series, in Chicago, March 30, 2021. (Evan Jenkins/The New York Times)
EditorialUtagawa Yoshimune, The puppeteers Yoshida Kumitsu as Tachibana-hime, Yoshida Sango as Motome and Nishikawa Isaburo as Omiwa in the play Imoseyama Onna Teikin, color woodcut, signature: Isshsai Yoshimune ga , publisher: Daikokuya Kinnosuke, censorship s...
EditorialTextile fragment with pattern of pages with script and bunraku puppeteers, Japan, Edo (16151868), Date 18th19th century, Japan, Silk, 4 x 8 1/2 in. (10.16 x 21.59 cm), Textiles-Woven.
EditorialPuppeteers practice for Derek Fordjour's live show, inspired by Japanese puppet theater, to complement work in his upcoming gallery exhibition, in New York, Nov. 7, 2020. (Rafael Rios/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Actors Yamashita Kinsaku I and Hayakawa Hatsuse as puppeteers in the play "Diary Kept on a Journey by Sea to Izu" ("Funadama Izu Nikki"), performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1725. Torii Kiyomasu II; Japanese, 1706 (?)-1763 (?). Da...
EditorialThe Actors Yamashita Kinsaku I and Hayakawa Hatsuse as puppeteers in the play "Diary Kept on a Journey by Sea to Izu" ("Funadama Izu Nikki"), performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1725. Torii Kiyomasu II; Japanese, 1706 (?)-1763 (?). Da...
EditorialThe Actors Yamashita Kinsaku I and Hayakawa Hatsuse as puppeteers in the play "Diary Kept on a Journey by Sea to Izu" ("Funadama Izu Nikki"), performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1725. Torii Kiyomasu II; Japanese, 1706 (?)-1763 (?). Da...
EditorialThe Actors Yamashita Kinsaku I and Hayakawa Hatsuse as puppeteers in the play "Diary Kept on a Journey by Sea to Izu" ("Funadama Izu Nikki"), performed at the Nakamura Theater in the first month, 1725. Torii Kiyomasu II; Japanese, 1706 (?)-1763 (?). Da...
EditorialPuppet in kimono being manipulated by two bunraku puppeteers in black robes. Woodblock ukiyo-e print by Utagawa Kunisada II, Tokyo, 1850s. From a series of illustrations of popular bunraku plays, this showing the Yaoya Oshichi.