The Muppet Movie (Sing Along)
Directed by James Frawley
USA / 1979 / 95 min / Color / English
Sunday, September 14, 2008, 4pm
The Muppet Movie is a lovingly made, touching story for kids of all ages by puppeteer Jim Henson. The film debut for the Muppets, this movie-within-a-movie chronicles the Muppets rise to fame beginning in a swamp and ending in Hollywood. Included are hilarious cameos by Milton Berle, Mel Brooks, Bob Hope, Cloris Leachman, Steve Martin, Richard Pryor, Telly Savalas and Orson Welles. Join us for a special “sing-along” screening hosted by Heather Henson to celebrate the Center’s 30th birthday.

Location: Mainstage Theater
Cost: FREE - This is a MEMBERS ONLY event.
Limit 4 tickets per Member until seating capacity is reached.
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Puppetry: Worlds of Imagination
Directed by Joshua Malkin
USA / 2001 / 44 min / Color / English
Saturday, October 4, 2008, 8pm
This documentary surveys revolutionary new developments in American puppet theater, profiling many of puppetry’s most imaginative contemporary artists such as Basil Twist, Michael Curry and Ralph Lee.

Location: Mainstage Theater
Cost: $7; $5 Center Members
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An Evening of Stop-Motion Puppet Films
Curated by Alan Louis, Director of Museum and Education Programs, Center for Puppetry Arts
Saturday, January 17, 2009, 8pm
Come enjoy the end result of countless hours of painstaking puppet manipulation captured on film one frame at a time as we celebrate an evening of stop-motion puppet animation. The evening includes Adam Elliot’s Academy Award-winning Harvie Krumpet from Australia, Haunted Hogmanay from Ko-Lik Films of Scotland and more.

Location: Mainstage Theater
Cost: $7; $5 Center Members
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The Story of Fenist (In Memory of Igor Fokin)
Directed by Yelena Demikovsky
USA / 2001 / 60 min / Color / English and Russian with English subtitles
Saturday, February 21, 2009, 8pm
This award-winning documentary is the story of master puppeteer Igor Fokin, who left Russia for America in 1994 to become a main attraction in Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Director Demikovsky retraces Fokin’s life from university theater student through the creation of his St. Petersburg studio to his final home the USA.

Location: Mainstage Theater
Cost: $7; $5 Center Members
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Monster Road
Directed by Brett Ingram
USA / 2004 / 80 min / Color / English
Saturday, March 28, 2009, 8pm
Enter the wildly fantastic worlds of legendary underground clay animator Bruce Bickford in this truly insightful documentary film. Tracing the origins of his remarkably unique sensibility, the film journeys back to Bickford’s childhood in a competitive household during the paranoia of the Cold War.

Location: Mainstage Theater
Cost: $7; $5 Center Members
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Puppet Up! - Uncensored - Live in Melbourne, Australia
Produced by the Jim Henson Company, Creative Director & Host Patrick Bristow
USA / 2007 / 76 min / Color / English
Saturday, April 25, 2009, 8pm
Ages 18 and up ONLY
Licensed exclusively to the Center for Puppetry Arts by the Jim Henson Company comes Puppet Up! – Uncensored live from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Melbourne, Australia. Puppet Up! – Uncensored is a demonstration of what happens when the perilous and provocative forms of traditional comedic improvisation are mixed with a bunch of puppets. With a motley group of characters brought to life by the world renowned puppeteers of the Jim Henson Company, this is not your average night at the improv and it is definitely not for children. But all others are welcome to enjoy the uninhibited anarchy of live puppet performance as never seen before.

Location: Mainstage Theater
Cost: $7; $5 Center Members
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