Puppets have always been part of our city’s theatrical landscape and we can claim the man who created that wildly popular TV puppet gang, Chicago-born Burr Tillstrom and his “Kukla, Fran and Ollie,” ...

Two master puppeteers will host a “puppet social” this evening to gauge the interest in starting a troupe in the summertime.

Theater artist Jacky Kelsey was driving back from their grandmother’s farm when five white owls appeared out of nowhere and flew over the car. It was a “spooky, alien site,” they said. Throughout ...

Lying next to a giant Frankenstein monster’s head one night in 1996, under the stage at Steppenwolf Theatre, I was told by a man named Blair Thomas, “We are aware that we are making things that people ...