He’s doing some of his best work now,” says Vermont filmmaker Robbie Leppzer, creator of the new documentary “An Artist Responds to War.” ...

Peter Schumann, co-founder of the radical theater group, led attendees through song, dance and a snowball fight — against cardboard machine guns labeled “freedom” and “democracy” — prior to three ...

Fifty years ago, Vermont’s Bread and Puppet Theater embarked on an extraordinary journey. Founded in 1963 by Peter Schumann, the group has spent decades crafting its slapstick street-theater filled ...

The Bread and Puppet Theater was founded in 1963 on New York City’s Lower East Side. It gets its name from the fact that Shumann himself would bake dozens of loaves of sourdough bread, giving them ...

Shaftsbury filmmaker Robbie Leppzer postponed production of his feature-length documentary for this timely short. “An Artist Responds to War” premieres May 3.

This “backstory” is a part of a collection of articles that describes some of the obstacles that Seven Days reporters faced while pursuing Vermont news, events and people in 2023. Bread and Puppet ...

A puppeteer plays a mourning mother in Gaza during a performance of Our Domestic Resurrection Revolution In Progress! in Ypsilanti, Mich. (Timothy Chen Allen) Generations of peacenik Americans first ...

PORTLAND — Bread and Puppet Theater will present four performances of “Of The End of the World Never Minding Show” at Mayo Street Arts on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, April 24-26. Bread and Puppet ...

The legendary Vermont political performance troupe Bread and Puppet Theater returns to Connecticut with its “The Beginning After the End of Humanity Circus.” Bread and Puppet presents socially ...

Generations of peacenik Americans first saw Bread and Puppet Theater during anti-war protests. Giant white birds on rods soared high over marchers against U.S. military actions in Vietnam, Central ...