Object Lessons: Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival Returns

Newcity Stage: The Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival is back, ready, as its tagline goes, to astonish and delight—and prove, once again, that the players with the greatest emotional range are often not made of flesh and bone. The festival—the only one of its kind in the United States—is in its fifth edition and has already put Chicago on the map as a destination for the most inventive live performance on the planet.