When teachers noticed that children in Oakland preschool and kindergarten classrooms were not engaging in imaginative play or interacting with each other as much after the pandemic, staff at ...

The new month means a new opportunity to honor people living on the autism spectrum. April is Autism Awareness Month and KPBS Education Reporter M.G. Perez tells us it begins with a puppet show, ...

Puppetry is more than just child’s play at Children’s Fairyland, Oakland’s iconic storybook theme park. Small children have been stimulated by the wonders of live performance at the Storybook Puppet ...

Puppets can’t speak for themselves, but children at J.D. Lever Elementary recently gave them voices to learn lessons about literature and life. Beginning with a study of the concept of conflict, or a ...

In the play, a puppet starts to offer a cigarette to a friend but his cough gets the better of him, which makes his voice a bit funny-sounding — eliciting peals of laughter from a roomful of a hundred ...

The Audience: Mexicans of all ages, gathered around a miniature theater set up in a public square, a factory, or a harvest field. The-Scene: a human mouth. The Play: three fantastically ugly puppets, ...

Puppetry is more than just child’s play at Children’s Fairyland, Oakland’s iconic storybook theme park. Small children have been stimulated by the wonders of live performance at the Storybook Puppet ...