Ada/Ava Manual Cinema Saturday September 27th, 7:30pm Performance at In the Heart of the Beast Theatre – 1500 E. Lake St., Mpls     More information and tickets available at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/772355 Part of Handmade Worlds: A Festival of Puppet Theatre. For more information about all the festival activities, go to www.handmadeworlds.org.

Skeletons in the Closet Gustavo and Julie Boada Saturday September 27th, 10am and 12noon Family friendly – part of the HOBT Saturday Shows for Kids Series Performance at In the Heart of the Beast Theatre – 1500 E. Lake St., Mpls     More information and tickets available at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/772341 Part of Handmade Worlds: A Festival of…

The Mysterious Metamorphosis of Mr. Krank Toybox Theatre and Cripps Puppets Friday September 26th, 5pm Performance at In the Heart of the Beast Theatre – 1500 E. Lake St., Mpls More information and tickets available at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/772330 Part of Handmade Worlds: A Festival of Puppet Theatre. For more information about all the festival activities, go to www.handmadeworlds.org.

Love is… Performed by Larry Hunt Thursday September 25th, 8pm Performance at In the Heart of the Beast Theatre – 1500 E. Lake St., Mpls More information and tickets available at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/772311 Part of Handmade Worlds: A Festival of Puppet Theatre. For more information about all the festival activities, go to www.handmadeworlds.org.

  On-time Circus Performed by Margo McCreary and Company Thursday, September 25th, 3:30pm Family friendly Performance on the Midtown Greenway – just east of Chicago Ave. More information at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/772291 Part of Handmade Worlds: A Festival of Puppet Theatre. For more information about all the festival activities, go to www.handmadeworlds.org. FREE

Erupting volcanoes, agriculture gone rogue, and a river of humanity that winds around Neglect… all on stage? Mad Munchkin Productions’ exciting new work uses puppetry, mask, movement, and original music to explore natural disasters, man-made disasters, and interpersonal tragedies. (Family friendly but recommended for ages 8 and up). Tickets are $15. For more information, click…

October 2013

Halloween Lobby Spectacular! Created by Fortuna Puppet Theater October 25 and 26, 2013 An intimate shadow show, and a ghoulish delight, just in time for Halloween! Join us for this intimate lobby show, just in time for the deepening of the shadows. This show will be spooky, but safe for families with children of all…

A full length work by Annie Rollins for the shadow theatre mixing traditional Chinese and North American styles to present the story of a Grandfather shadow puppeteer in China’s dying dynastic period through the Communist Revolution and into the modern era. As his only Granddaughter recounts his life story in shadow, questions arise of our place…

November 7-18, 2012 In the Heart of the Beast partnered with New Native Theater and Bedlam Theater for this debut performance,a romp through the end of the world as we know it. Inspired by the hoopla of the end of the Mayan calendar, the NNT Actor Ensemble’s hilarious new play is about the year 2012…