Leos Carax had a problem: he wanted to incorporate a small child with preternatural singing prowess into his deranged Sparks brothers movie musical “Annette,” but the director didn’t want to use a ...

When Shaun Michael McNamara brought live adults-only puppet theater to the Valley in 2012, he’d just spent a couple of years selling out shows in small theaters around southern California. But when ...

And that's one of the least weird things about this deeply bizarre and uproarious movie musical (now in theaters and streaming on Amazon Prime). The film is the brainchild of French director Leos ...

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 ...

The All Puppet Players, known for their outrageous and hilarious puppet parodies, will bring their latest production, Lost Boys: Live & Undead, to the stage starting September 6th at Playhouse on the ...

After designing animatronics for franchises like Star Wars and Jurassic World, Gustav Hoegen and his team scaled back and happily returned to traditional design and puppetry methods for Hanna Bergholm ...

Estelle Charlier and Romuald Collinet talk building nine different puppets to portray "baby Annette." “The film seemed impossible to make,” Leos Carax said in a statement shared about his film. “Then ...