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

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

"...looked at the illness as collateral damage and conspiratorial company doctors diagnosed it as syphilis or diphtheria. The workers’..."

May 31, 2022 Arts Post by Bob Abelman

2017 Payne Theatre Award Nominees

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

"...the B. Iden Payne Awards Council Monday. When the theatre group announced the nominees for the 2016-17 season, Doctuh..."

Sept. 20, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

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

"...director, Michael McKelvey. "The university used to do summer theatre, and then finances being what they were, they took..."

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

Robert Faires' Top 10 Theatre Treasures of 2019

History came alive and exceptional ensembles propelled the year's most memorable shows

"...evil twins and played at warp speed, the exceptional company made everything real – life brimming with heartache...."

Dec. 20, 2019 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

2017 Payne Theatre Award Winners

Lotta love for Nevermore, Drowning Girls, Agent Andromeda

"...The theatre fans who voted for this year's B. Iden Payne..."

Oct. 25, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

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

Top 10 Memorable Moments in Austin Theatre

Productions and performances, from the fantastic to the unfortunate

"...When we reflect back on a live theatre production, it's often one brief shining moment that we..."

Dec. 16, 2022 Arts Feature by Bob Abelman

Opera Fights, Puppet Plays, and More Arty Events

Get an arts fix this week

"...Friday 1-Sunday 3, Georgetown Palace Theatre..."

March 1, 2024 Arts Feature by James Scott

Top 9 Theatre Productions of 2009 That Did Ascend the Brightest Heaven of Invention

A year of failed romances, Greek myths, and more that were staged so ingeniously

"...1) 'BOBRAUSCHENBERGAMERICA' (MARY MOODY NORTHEN THEATRE) Modern art's master of collage celebrated in a theatrical..."

Jan. 1, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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

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

2019 B. Iden Payne Award Winners

Five shows share top honors with four awards each

"...For many in Austin's theatre community, they will remember, remember the fourth of November,..."

Nov. 6, 2019 Arts Post by Robert Faires

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

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

Spaced Out

Salvage Vanguard, Tapestry Dance lose their home spaces

"...can now add Salvage Vanguard Theater and Tapestry Dance Company...."

Oct. 16, 2015 Arts Post by Robert Faires

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

Pleasure of the Paynes 2014

The 'Fix' was in at the 40th theatre awards ceremony

"...– that's now how I'll think of our local theatre awards after hearing their title mangled by the 2014..."

Nov. 4, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Star Turns

The nominees for the 2015-16 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...outstanding work in dance, classical music, visual art, and theatre in the past year and announced the nominees for..."

May 9, 2016 Arts Post by Robert Faires

2012 Austin Critics Table Awards

For the 20th time, a big hand for the nominees if you please

"...half-dozen arts writers are handing out honors to local theatre artists in the Continental Club, and the next, a..."

May 25, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Pleasure of the Paynes 2016

Annual theatre awards think Terminus is the living end

"...at the 42nd edition of the B. Iden Payne Theatre Awards on Monday, where the Vortex Repertory Company production..."

Oct. 27, 2016 Arts Post

Culture Flash!

Payne Theatre Award winners, new companies at home at the Long Center, and an arts administrator gets more classical work

"...• The Hidden Room's Rose Rage, Zach Theatre's Next to Normal, Trouble Puppet Theater Company's Riddley Walker,..."

Nov. 2, 2012 Arts Column

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

Puppets add humanity to Upton Sinclair's story, retold here with a lean, mythic power

"...We hear its chilling moan underscore much of this Trouble Puppet Theater Company adaptation of Upton Sinclair's novel, but..."

Oct. 2, 2009 Arts Review 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

All Over Creation: I Was Meant for the Stage

To learn which actors were destined for the theatre, watch how they hold the stage alone

"...of both foot and leg, was destined to make theatre, were permanently dismissed...."

Oct. 3, 2014 Arts Column by Robert Faires

2010 B. Iden Payne Awards

Four shows took home nearly half the honors at this year's ceremony

"...were handed out at the Long Center's Rollins Studio Theatre on Monday, Nov. 1, it looked like they only..."

Nov. 12, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Five Cool Things You Might Wanna Check Out This Weekend

Because there's good reason to celebrate, right now, isn't there?

"...1. PUPPETRY! Sometimes you want a single overarching narrative that stretches..."

June 26, 2013 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

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