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

Trouble Puppet Studio

October 3, 2013. 15 photos.

"...of preparations for its original production, The Head, the Trouble Puppet Theater Company opened its studio and workshop to..."

Oct. 3, 2013 Photo Gallery

Frankenstein: A Trouble Puppet Show

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

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

Oct. 31, 2008 Arts Feature by Hannah Kenah

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

Henson-backed world premiere recounts a workers' rights fight

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

May 31, 2022 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

Trouble Puppet's The Wars of Heaven, Part I

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

"...the hell of war. Except the heads of these puppets reveal that they are demonic soldiers. Which is interesting,..."

May 8, 2015 Arts Review by Elizabeth Cobbe

Review: Trouble Puppet Theater Company’s Undark: A Radioactive Puppet Play

Henson-backed world premiere recounts a workers’ rights fight

June 3, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

The Hand Inside the Puppet Head

Connor Hopkins and his friends are pleased to meat you

"...Trouble Puppet Theater Company has your answer, and it's partly..."

March 18, 2011 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

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

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

July 18, 2008 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

"Puppet Stole My Cocktail, Pass Me Those Hors D'oeuvres!"

A shadowy soirée with Trouble Puppet this Saturday night

"...Trouble Puppet Theatre Company knows...."

Aug. 31, 2012 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Ethos' Atlantis: A Puppet Opera

This new musical take on the fall of Atlantis pulls us into an ancient place, powered by myth and ritual

"...So it goes in Atlantis: A Puppet Opera, the latest musical creation from Ethos, the company..."

Sept. 16, 2016 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Opera Fights, Puppet Plays, and More Arty Events

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"...five years.   – James Scott UNDARK: A Radioactive Puppet Play..."

March 1, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

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..."

Oct. 4, 2013 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe

The Head

This intensely personal look at depression and personal demons provides a showcase for Trouble Puppet's builders and puppeteers

"...The HeadSalvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Rd. www.troublepuppet.com Through Oct. 12 Running time: 1 hr...."

Oct. 11, 2013 Arts Review by Dan Solomon

'The Jungle'

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

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

Sept. 18, 2009 Arts Feature by Elizabeth Cobbe

Hyde & Shriek

When Trouble Puppet Theatre tackles Dr. Jekyll's dark tale, the villain may not be who you think

"...his lab. Connor Hopkins, Austin's mad scientist of the puppetry arts, is back in his workshop with another work..."

Oct. 31, 2014 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

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

May 6, 2016 Arts Review by Shanon Weaver

Five Faces of Frankenstein

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

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

Oct. 23, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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

Long Fringe Review: 'The Crapstall Street Boys'

A dark, sad tale and a new direction for Trouble Puppet

"...in two parts: first, a mini-circus, and next, a puppet play...."

Jan. 26, 2012 Arts Post by Elizabeth Cobbe

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

Gricelda Silva, Equal Parts Pragmatism and Whimsy

For five years, the actress has been among the busiest and best on Austin's stages

"...Silva excitedly recounts her trip to Connecticut with Austin's Trouble Puppet Theater Company to attend the National Puppetry Festival..."

Sept. 25, 2015 Arts Feature by Caitlin Greenwood

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

Culture Flash!

Henson supports The Jungle, Margraff's back, and coming soon to a cinema near you: The Intergalactic Nemesis

"...• Trouble Puppet Theater Company scored big with its recent production..."

Jan. 8, 2010 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Top 10 Memorable Moments in Austin Theatre

Productions and performances, from the fantastic to the unfortunate

"...In Trouble Puppet Theater Co.'s staging of Undark, crafted by Artistic Director..."

Dec. 16, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

2017 Payne Theatre Award Nominees

E.A. Poe musical Nevermore leads the way with 11 noms

"...honored with nine nominations each: the musicals Atlantis: A Puppet Opera (ethos and Vortex Repertory Company) and Monty Python's..."

Sept. 20, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

The Crapstall Street Boys

This darkly comic tale of monster slaying shows Trouble Puppet's artists at the top of their game

"...Crapstall Street BoysSalvage Vanguard Theater, 2803 Manor Rd., 512/573-2540 www.troublepuppet.com Through Mar. 15 Running Time: 1 hr., 15 min...."

March 14, 2014 Arts Review by Stacy Alexander Evans

Star Turns

The nominees for the 2015-16 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Production, Drama Disgraced, Austin Playhouse Frankenstein: The Trouble Puppet Show, Trouble Puppet Theater Company The History of..."

May 9, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Toil and Trouble: A Troubling Turn on Shakespeare's Macbeth

Trouble Puppet makes the magic real in its magical retelling of Shakespeare's Macbeth

"...Toil and Trouble: A Troubling Turn on Shakespeare's MacbethSalvage Vanguard Theater, 2803..."

Nov. 16, 2012 Arts Review by Dan Solomon

Blood on the Austin Stage, Paint on the Texas Walls

And, go ahead, paint a little on Brenner while you're at it

"...of those non-idiots will take a bunch of handmade puppets and boil down the Bard's bloodiest tragedy to a..."

Nov. 8, 2012 Chronolog Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

Nasty, Brutish, and Short?

We're not talking about Frodo on a meth bender

"...the production of Riddley Walker that he's directing for Trouble Puppet Theater Company. "Was it Hobbes," asks Hopkins, "who..."

Sept. 28, 2011 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

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