Cathy McMorris Rodgers has proved that she is nothing more than a puppet dancing on strings. Those strings are being pulled by the leadership of the tea party. They include people like David and ...

Ever seen “The Nutcracker” performed with the dancers suspended by strings? In a special production of “The Nutcracker” at the Vilar Center Friday, master puppeteer Jim Gamble will make an age-old ...

“Watch me dance, I’m a puppet,” Thom Yorke commands in “Up on the Ladder,” from Radiohead’s In Rainbows bonus disc. “You can almost see the string.” Given the notoriously herky-jerk movements of the ...

Wordless tales require physically expressive actors … or, in the case of “Crane & Turtle: Images of China,” expressive puppets. In the Northwest Puppet Center’s newest show, the highlight is a ...

The head is carved from wood. Mechanisms in the hollow head move the eyes and mouth. The main rod, made either of wood or bamboo, runs through the neck to the head, and the length varies. The hand ...