Make way, ghosts of holiday shows past: it’s a new year for Chicago theater, and as usual, the Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival is kicking it off with a bang. Now in its seventh ...

Torey Southwick, who, with his puppet sidekick Ol’ Gus, held down the highest rated children’s show throughout the 1960s on KMBC-TV 9, died last month at age 94 in Bethesda, Maryland. While the ...

and Captain Kangaroo, Sesame Street was always what I loved the most. There was something so magical about what Jim Henson originally helped to create. I was in awe of the puppet characters ...

A new exhibition will showcase the work of a man described by George Bernard Shaw as "the chief living puppet master". Waldo Lanchester was well known for work with the Lanchester Marionettes ...

The 88-year-old watched from a chair as acrobats, robot-operated puppet elephants, jugglers and dancers on roller skates took to the stage at his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Hall.

He soon moved to Kansas City where he had popular radio shows and children's television shows (along with his puppet "Ol' Gus") for more than a decade. His shows, "Torey Time" every weekday morning ...