“Hand to God,” about a boy and his puppet, was hailed on Broadway as a “laff riot” by some who apparently didn’t notice its darkness. We approach it expecting something like “Avenue Q” and “Howdy ...

Be a shadow boxer! Enjoy those hours in the hurricane shelter or at home by making your own shadow puppets. To make hand shadow puppets, you'll need your hands, your imagination, some dolls and a ...

God may have created the heavens and the earth and all living things — but the Devil surely created Tyrone, the filthy-minded, foul-mouthed sock puppet that has audiences howling at “Hand to God.” ...

To the late Alien Comic: Hey, Tom Murrin! I don’t think performance artists go to heaven, so I hope it’s fun to haunt the P.S. 122 dressing room or the basement of Theater for the New City. Anyway, I ...

My brush was tiny, more like something you’d use for nail polish. That was apt because I was struggling to paint the toenails of my dragon shadow puppet. Dipping the silken brush into a pot of ...

As the lights went off, the small white screen on stage came alive with floating forms of animals in their habitat, humans and scenes from daily life. Mumbai-based hand shadowgraphy artist Rekha Vyas ...