Experience shadow puppetry by firelight! Witness scenes from the dramatic epic Ramayana, complete with scenes of battles, trickery, and the natural world, performed by masters of Tholpavakoothu, a ...

For years, Buffalo’s own Nusantara Arts has been curating exceptional Indonesian shadow puppet and Javanese dance performances, set to traditional gamelan music. Leave your traditional idea of what a ...

Simple hand shadow puppets like birds and butterflies won’t cut it at this week’s Manual Cinema collaboration with O, Miami. The Chicago-based company brings an entire cinematic show of shadow ...

There were many highlights during Asia Week in New York — a sublime polychromed wood Lokeshvara from Tibet at John Eskenazi, a rare Sogdian cup at James Lally, a Jakachu painting at JADA, among others ...

Don’t be alarmed. But Chicago is having an invasion this month. An invasion … of puppets. The Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival is a brand-new event celebrating the art of puppetry in its ...

Centuries before haunted house attractions or horror films, audiences thrilled to magic lantern shows. Also known as phantasmagorias, these performances featured hand-painted glass slides illuminated ...

The performances were one of only a handful of free events that were part of Season of Cambodia, a celebration of the country’s arts, culture, and humanities that will bring works by more than 125 ...

On Sunday, April 23, Buffalo’s Nusantara Arts will treat us to a spectacular Sunday afternoon of Javanese shadow puppetry unlike anything that we could have possibly imagined. These Javanese Wayang ...