Friday, October 24, 2008
The Black Sheep Puppet Festival celebrates its 10th season.
Pittsburgh City Paper - Pittsburgh: "Long before Avenue Q debuted on Broadway and opened the eyes of millions, or at least a lot, of theater-goers, plenty of vanguard artists, writers and performers already knew puppets were bad-ass. Instead of yapping through uniformly turned-out mouthpieces in swanky Great White Way joints, they utilized hand-crafted instruments, household items, found objects and trash, bringing it to black-box spaces, dirty warehouses, outdoor amphitheaters and even former-brewery squats-turned-reclaimed-artist-quarters."
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thanks for the great blog and resources about pittsburgh art events! i added your blog link on my pittsburgh galleries blog.
rick byerly
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It is funny how for years artists have been succesful in story telling with puppets. Avenue Q did steal the spotlight when it went big on broadway, but it is not necessarily the best use of puppet theatre. The Black Sheep Puppet Festival in it’s tenth year is still making succesful pieces with puppets. Although Avenue Q got a lot of attention, it helped pave the way for more sustainable puppet theatre, like that of the Black Sheep Puppet Festival.
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