puppet theater
String-controlled performance venue
Puppet theater is dramatic performance using puppets—figures manipulated by hand, strings, rods, or other means—rather than live actors.
The art form ranges from children's entertainment to sophisticated adult productions.
We took the kids to a puppet theater downtown.
The term covers both the performance style and the venue where such shows take place.
- marionetteString-controlled theatrical figure
- string pullingExercising hidden influence
- BunrakuJapanese puppet theater tradition
- Punch and JudyTraditional British puppet theatre
- puppeteerPerformer controlling jointed figures
hand up · voice acting · Jim Henson · control rods · script · stage · strings · behind the curtain · ventriloquism · narrator · props · traveling troupe · glove · lighting · show · Judy · children · children's entertainment
- Children's Museumplay areas, water tables, building blocks, art studio, sensory room
- Asian theaterkabuki, noh, Beijing opera, bunraku, Peking opera
- Theater Formsstage play, one-act play, mystery play, morality play, passion play
- theater genrestragedy, comedy, melodrama, farce, satire
- Czech Theaterdramaturgy, marionettes, National Theatre, stage design, dramatic works
- South Indian artsveena, temple murals, devotional music, bronze casting, silk weaving
puppet theaterlive actors
Humans playing roles onstage
legitimate theater · repertory theater · performance art · mime · dance theater
puppet theatergrand opera
Fully sung dramatic spectacle
stadium show · epic theater · Broadway musical · West End theater · cast of thousands
puppet theatersolo performance
Unaccompanied artistic presentation
monologue · one-man show · stand-up comedy · cabaret · storytelling