Frankenstein: A Trouble Puppet Show

In this puppet retelling, the monster is a hybrid of human and plant tissue

"...Hopkins, who reread it and adapted it for Trouble Puppet Theater Company's production, opening this week at the City..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Arts Feature by Hannah Kenah

Geppetto Dreams Puppet Company

For his company's final show, Ricki Vincent takes a look at the end of it all

"...saddest victims of the recession has been Geppetto Dreams Puppet Company, the remarkable East Austin puppetry group which closed..."

March 19, 2010 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Geppetto Dreams Puppet Company

It's hard out there for a puppet

"...claimed another victim among Austin's creative class: Geppetto Dreams Puppet Company. The troupe that introduced our town to puppet..."

Sept. 25, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Puppet Summit

Friday, July 16, 8pm

"...You may have thought that puppetry had become something of a lost art, what with..."

July 16, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

New Austin Show Celebrates the Lighter Side of Ethnic Assimilation

Lucky Chaos Theatre’s Leng Wong tells us about Living on the Hyphen

"...find out more about this Living on the Hyphen show that she and Anuradha Naimpally are staging at the..."

March 28, 2016 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

The Hand Inside the Puppet Head

Connor Hopkins and his friends are pleased to meat you

"...But how, then, to experience a darkly compelling live show based on The Jungle, Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel about..."

March 18, 2011 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Trouble Puppet Theater Company

A visiting puppeteer flies in with a show about a really wild duck

"...point of having a resident artist program for visiting puppeteers, you can consider this whole puppet trend of the..."

March 19, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Review: Trouble Puppet Theater Co.’s Undark: A Radioactive Puppet Play

Henson-backed world premiere recounts a workers' rights fight

"...So, the question to ask while attending the Trouble Puppet Theater Company’s staging of Undark: A Radioactive Puppet Play..."

May 31, 2022 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

Opera Fights, Puppet Plays, and More Arty Events

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"...working mom and woman of color from her comic show Straight Outta Pacific Northwest. Meanwhile, local legends buff up..."

March 1, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Summer Stock Austin: I'm Your Puppet

Trouble Puppet Theatre Company teams up with Summer Stock Austin to take Jack up the beanstalk in a whole new way

"...enhance its strong community ties by affiliating with Trouble Puppet Theatre Company to stage an original production of Jack..."

July 18, 2008 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Trouble Puppet's The Wars of Heaven, Part I

The eons-old battle between heaven and hell gets reorganized along gender lines

"...The show opens with two Russian soldiers taking shelter in the..."

May 8, 2015 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Fragile Rock: Austin's Emo Puppet Band

Maybe the world's only emo puppet band?

"...Damn, brother. So this whole emo puppet band thing was …..."

June 3, 2015 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Luv Doc Recommends: The Rocky Horror Show

Topfer Theatre at Zach, Thursday, October 26, 2006

"...can it be to walk through life with the puppet hand of societal conformity stuck up your butt –..."

Oct. 27, 2006 Column by The Luv Doc

The Adventures of Pinocchio

"...task in retelling the classic story of the wooden puppet and his kindly “father” Geppetto that was brilliantly brought..."

July 26, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

The Double Life of Veronique

Kieslowski's movie is told not so much in customary narrative structures, but in glimpses, hints, and intimations. On the same day in 1968, two women are born, one in Poland, the other in France. Though the two share many characteristics, they live worlds apart. Yet each senses the other and has intuitive knowledge of the other's presence.

"...singing career, much like the fable told by the puppeteer who provides another level of commentary on their story..."

March 6, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Talk to the Hand

The first ever Puppet Parts Film Festival

"...no phone. But there are a whole lot of puppets...."

Jan. 11, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

Five Faces of Frankenstein

This Halloween, Austin serves up five freaky takes on Mary Shelley's mad doctor and his monster

"...to the Franks in town. 1. Frankenstein: The Trouble Puppet Show..."

Oct. 23, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Wars of Heaven: Smackdown!

This Trouble Puppet Theater production takes the philosophic battle between good and evil into the pro-wrestling ring

"...with a black light and a bong. With Trouble Puppet Theater Company's Wars of Heaven: Smackdown!, the challenge of..."

May 6, 2016 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

Pleasure of the Paynes 2016

Annual theatre awards think Terminus is the living end

"...ceremony where awards are being handed out, there's one show that just seems to have generated some special magic..."

Oct. 27, 2016 Arts Post

Live to Tell

Madonna Live Shot, Houston's Minute Maid Park, 11.16.2008

"...last Thursday night might as well have been a puppet show compared to the West Side Story Madonna brought...."

Nov. 17, 2008 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Three Guys, a Girl, and a Dog Named Friday

Austin film collective Jollyville Pictures on its ingredients for success

"...he called me with an idea about doing a puppet show for KVR-TV, since, obviously, I'd been interested in..."

Dec. 18, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Brutality Television

Why you won't be seeing Austin emo puppet band Fragile Rock on America's Got Talent

"...am backstage at America's Got Talent with my emo puppet band Fragile Rock, being interviewed after our performance...."

July 15, 2016 Arts Feature by Brently Heilbron

Creature Construction

How Trouble Puppet creates those ingenious, inhuman figures that populate its plays

"...To pay a visit to the Trouble Puppet studio with a show under construction is to tour..."

Oct. 4, 2013 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe

The Happytime Murders

Puppet comedy crime caper is less Feebles, more just feeble

"...a theatre kid of the early 2000s, no Broadway show better captured my brand of mild-mannered rebellion than Avenue..."

Aug. 24, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Cartoon Heritage

Food faces, renegade puppets, rainbow purses, and nicotine washes – it's all part of the art of Matthew Rodriguez

"...paper, painting rainbows on purses, drinking Sparks, and making puppet shows. His comical paintings evoke smiles via familiar song..."

Aug. 18, 2006 Arts Feature by Rachel Koper

Frankenstein

A puppet-driven hodgepodge romp through Mary Shelley's most famous work

"...Salvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Rd., 573-2540 www.troublepuppet.com..."

Oct. 1, 2010 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

'The Jungle'

Connor Hopkins distills Upton Sinclair's sprawling novel down to paper and strings

"...least that's the strategy that Connor Hopkins and Trouble Puppet Theater Company are pursuing. Their adaptation of the Upton..."

Sept. 18, 2009 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe

Team America: World Police

Trey Parker and Matt Stone tame the world with marionettes.

"...Middle Eastern terror types so broadly generic in their puppet portrayals as to have been lifted whole from the..."

Oct. 15, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Frankenstein: A Trouble Puppet Show

A creative adaptation that offers the pleasure of seeing good puppeteers at work

"...Frankenstein: A Trouble Puppet Show..."

Nov. 7, 2008 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

First Night Schedule

"...The TroublePuppetShow – Doctor Praetorius' Alchemical Carnival Featuring the Wheel of..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Arts Feature

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